Wanted in ASP.NET 2.0: Tab control

One can accomplish the equivalent of a tab control by showing/hiding various
panels according to the user clicking on hyperlinks or buttons, but it would
be nice if Microsoft put forth the effort to create a web site tab control,
to cover the various browsers, as well as offer both a couple default
display styles as well as offer the ability to customize the style.

Web site tab interfaces are commonplace on the Web today, arguably as
commonplace as in windows applications (since there are far more web sites
out there than Windows apps).

Sure would make my life easier if I knew that this feature was a built-in
feature of ASP.NET 2.0.

Jon

Jon:

This control is already available. Check out www.asp.net - theres a download
for it there (along with a Treeview control, and a couple others).

"Jon Davis" <jon@REMOVE.ME.jondavis.net> wrote in message
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> One can accomplish the equivalent of a tab control by showing/hiding
various
> panels according to the user clicking on hyperlinks or buttons, but it
would
> be nice if Microsoft put forth the effort to create a web site tab
control,
> to cover the various browsers, as well as offer both a couple default
> display styles as well as offer the ability to customize the style.
>
> Web site tab interfaces are commonplace on the Web today, arguably as
> commonplace as in windows applications (since there are far more web sites
> out there than Windows apps).
>
> Sure would make my life easier if I knew that this feature was a built-in
> feature of ASP.NET 2.0.
>
> Jon
>
>

I'm not paying $996 for it.

Jon

"DC" <dc@blah.com> wrote in message
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> Jon:
>
> This control is already available. Check out www.asp.net - theres a
download
> for it there (along with a Treeview control, and a couple others).
>
> "Jon Davis" <jon@REMOVE.ME.jondavis.net> wrote in message
> news:u#sOdTmPEHA.3804@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl... 
> various 
> would 
> control, 
sites 
built-in 
>
>

How about $249?

I use ASPNetMenu at www.componentart.com

Alan

"Jon Davis" <jon@REMOVE.ME.jondavis.net> wrote in message
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> I'm not paying $996 for it.
>
> Jon
>
> "DC" <dc@blah.com> wrote in message
> news:eBxWDBnPEHA.1048@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl... 
> download 
> sites 
> built-in 
>
>

I think DC meant this control, which is free.
http://www.asp.net/ControlGallery/C...l=73&tabindex=2

"Jon Davis" <jon@REMOVE.ME.jondavis.net> wrote in message
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> I'm not paying $996 for it.
>
> Jon
>
> "DC" <dc@blah.com> wrote in message
> news:eBxWDBnPEHA.1048@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl... 
> download 
> sites 
> built-in 
>
>

its really not that tough to do yourself.
We just used a UC and pass in the panel/control name for each tab. The
postback hides/shows the right control/panel that way. We also allowed a
non-postback that uses clientside span tags set to visible/none for the
display style. all works fairly well, and looks decent.

--
Curt Christianson
Owner/Lead Developer, DF-Software
Site: http://www.Darkfalz.com
Blog: http://blog.Darkfalz.com


"Jon Davis" <jon@REMOVE.ME.jondavis.net> wrote in message
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> One can accomplish the equivalent of a tab control by showing/hiding
various
> panels according to the user clicking on hyperlinks or buttons, but it
would
> be nice if Microsoft put forth the effort to create a web site tab
control,
> to cover the various browsers, as well as offer both a couple default
> display styles as well as offer the ability to customize the style.
>
> Web site tab interfaces are commonplace on the Web today, arguably as
> commonplace as in windows applications (since there are far more web sites
> out there than Windows apps).
>
> Sure would make my life easier if I knew that this feature was a built-in
> feature of ASP.NET 2.0.
>
> Jon
>
>

That's IE-specific. Did I not make it clear that cross-browser compatibility
is one of the whole points of the necessity?

Jon

"Elliot M. Rodriguez, MCSD" <elliotmrodriguezathotmaildotcomspam> wrote in
message news:e$D2Ua0PEHA.3016@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> I think DC meant this control, which is free.
> http://www.asp.net/ControlGallery/C...l=73&tabindex=2
>
> "Jon Davis" <jon@REMOVE.ME.jondavis.net> wrote in message
> news:OTW4cPwPEHA.1312@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl... 
it 
default 
as 
>
>