Maximize Widgets!

Dynamic Dashboards Version 3.2 is ready. 

New version includes lots of enhancements and performance optimizations.

Below is a list of new features and changes.

NEW FEATURES

* Added widget maximize functionality.

- You can set a widget maxizable so that user can maximize widget. WidgetType.WidgetProperties

 can also be used to set if a widget can be maximizable by default. 

 WidgetInstance.Properties.MaximizeSettings.Notify property can be used if you want to be

 notified when a user maximizes widget.

   - You can assign MaximizeMode.External to WidgetProperties.MaximizeProperty.WidgetMaximizeMode so that 

 widget is displayed inside an iframe element instead of inline.

* DashboardSurface.GetWidgets method implemented. 

GetWidgets returns a list of WidgetInfo object which contains WidgetInstance reference 

and your user control instance.

* DashboardEditor page redesigned. Added localization support.

* Added four new themes; Kalitte, KalitteBlue, Slate and Access.

* You can now set widget mask is automatically displayed when a postback occurs in your widget.

Set a value WidgetType.WidgetProperties.PostbackMask or use WidgetInstance.Properties.PostbackMask

to show a mask message during update.

* Implemented an overloaded version of DashboardSurface.CreateWidget. 

Simplyfies creating of a widget inside dashboard.

* Dashboard handlers and modules are automatically added to web.config for IIS7.

* Added Toolbar auto hide feature. You set it using WidgetInstance.AutohideToolbar property.

* Removed page scroll position restoring after postback.

* Added WidgetContainer control. You can use WidgetContainer to display a widget outside dashboard.

* Added two (C#, VB.NET) Hellow World application. You can use these applications as a template

for your dashboard application.

BUGS RESOLVED

* Bug related with persisting ColumnPadding data in SQLServerProvider fixed.

BREAKING CHANGES

* Update your application's web.config file.

- Change AjaxRequestModule to DirectRequestModule.

* Execute following script on your SQL Server before upgrading:

alter table WidgetInstance

add [Properties] [ntext] NULL;

alter table WidgetType

add [WidgetProperties] [ntext] NULL;

* WidgetEditor.aspx file changed. Create a new file using smart-tag of DashboardSurface control.

* Add maximizeWidgetUrl to KalitteDashboardFramework section. Below is an example;

  <KalitteDashboardFramework editorUrl="~/Pages/Dynamic/WidgetEditor.aspx" widgetMaximizeUrl="~/widgetMaximize.aspx">

  You can see a sample of widgetMaximize.aspx in sample web project (inside Pages/Dynamic folder)

* Dont forget to update assembly version from 3.1.0.0 to 3.2.0.0. 

We have published an open source project on codeplex.

Here is description.

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More info can be found @ http://mapvisualizer.codeplex.com/ 

We have published source code of AccessDashboardProvider, SQLDashboardProvider and SessionDashboardProvider classes. You can download (Providers.zip (104.22 kb)) them and use as a startup to develop your own providers.

About Dynamic Dashboard Providers:
Dashboard Providers allow Dynamic Dashboards to store metadata (i.e. dashboards, commands or widget instances) without a dependency to a particular database. You can also implement your own provider. We currently have three built-in dashboard providers named SQLDashboardProvider, AccessDashboardProvider and SessionDashboardProvider which uses MS SQL, MS
Access and Http Session Object to store metadata respectively.

We are proud to announce we have more than one hundred customers all over the world!

Ajax - Widget based Dynamic Dashboards for Asp.Net is a fully managed ASP.NET server control library that lets you add fantastic looking, user customizable drag – drop Ajax dashboards and widgets to your applications with ease.  

Unlike static - non user customizable dashboards, DD provides  a dynamism platform which your customers can use to create their own dashboards. This also decreases your maintenance costs and increase customer satisfaction.

Below is a full feature list.

• Dashboard Providers, which provides database independency to store metadata.
• Browser independency; supports IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari.
• Full Ajax support with automatic page life‐cycle management.
• Toolbar, bottom bar, tool command, and context menu and widget communication support.
• Styling and theme support including user defined themes.
• Multiple row and column layout including multi column spanning.
• Free Asp.Net gauge control.
• High level customization including widget resizing, animation and drop validation.
• Ready to use widgets; Open source widget library included.

You can also watch 1 minute video below.

You can now use Component Source to purchase Kalitte Dynamic Dashboards. Component Source, as a worldwide reseller for software components and tools since 1995, also provides toll free support phones and consultancy about Dynamic Dashboards. More information can be found here.

Version 3.1 is published.

V3.1 includes DashboardTabView control which you can use tı display dashboards inside tabs.

We have also prepared a detailed User Guide document. Click here (3.10 mb) to download documentation in PDF format.

We have finished developing pop3 client widget. With this widget, a user can easily display his emails on dashboard. 

Widget also supports SSL, so you can use it to retrieve e-mails from gmail.

Here a sample can be found.

BTW an article is published on ArticleBlast.

You can use attached files as a startup to build your own providers. Also notice, you may get compile errors about serialization and some internal methods. Just use these files as a startup. 

Update: See here.