Create next-generation Web User Interfaces today! Built on Silverlight 3 technology, Aqua 2 redefines web user experiences with crystal-clear, fluid-looking interfaces. With sleek animations and dazzling visual effects, Aqua lets you create intuitive and engaging navigation experiences for your next-generation, rich Silverlight applications – in less time with less effort.

 

Aqua™ redefines Web user experience with stunning visual effects and innovative features that help you create more elegant and richer Web applications. Power-packed with hundreds of fresh and exciting features, Aqua is deeply integrated with Microsoft Expression Blend 2.5 June CTP and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 with Silverlight 2.0 toolkit development environment as well as Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/2008 for ASP.NET development environment.

 

In this second release, Aqua is rebuild from scratch to take full advantages of Silverlight 3 platform, such as supporting data binding and item tenplating features. These two prominent features enable developer to use any databases and bind it to FishEye and CoverFlow.

 

In addition to the enterprise-level features, Aqua also comes with visually-appealing appearances and visual effects. With improved zoom and flow logic in both FishEye and CoverFlow, Aqua promises a whole new sensation in interacting with Web-applications.

 

What's new in WebAqua 2.0.1000.217?

·         New Scenario Supported: Support Silverlight 3.

·         New Scenario Supported: WebFishEye and WebCoverflow now support binding to Microsoft .NET RIA Services through Element-to-element binding architecture in Silverlight 3.

 

What's new in WebAqua 2?

·         Now available in two editions, WebAqua for Silverlight 2.0 (supporting Microsoft Expression Blend 2.5 and Visual Studio 2008 development environment) and WebAqua for ASP.NET (supporting Visual Studio 2005/2008 Web development).

·         Improves performance to flow logic and animation.

·         WebCoverFlow now supports item template while enabling VirtualFlow (Load-on-Demand) at the same time.

 

 

WebAqua is a Microsoft Silverlight component that enhances the Web user experience by adding Apple Mac-OS look and feel to your ASP.NET Web applications. WebAqua is built upon three latest technologies: WebUI.NET Framework, ASP.NET and Silverlight. WebAqua currently includes WebCoverFlow and WebFishEye.

 

WebAqua Main Features:

·         Highly customizable with XAML support:WebAqua supports XAML file or XAML string, which can be reproduced easily using Microsoft Expression Blend and attached it to the control. This means that your imagination is not limited to the provided default animations, but you will have the freedom to create your own.

·         Integration with WebDesktop: Enjoy the smooth integration between WebAqua and WebDesktop. The integration feature allows you to create amazing Web application which requires rich Web UI, by simply dropping an instance of WebFishEye or WebCoverFlow, and setting some properties and the data structure to your existing Web application built upon WebDesktop.NET

·         Extensive Client Side Events: Besides all stunning visual animations and innovative features, WebAqua also comes with extensive client-side events to help you extend the behaviors and functionality of WebAqua to adapt your specific business logic requirements.

·         Support both Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008: WebAqua has "out-of-the-box" support for both VisualStudio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008. So you don't have to worry about which Visual Studio you are using. This definitely makes WebAqua one of the most visually appealing, and also flexible WebUI components.

·         Complete data source and data binding support: Besides various visually appealing features, WebAqua is also equipped with data binding capability. It supports all data source controls that come with ASP.NET. This allows you to bind WebCoverFlow or WebFishEye to any data source in several clicks.

·         Component Designer 2.0: WebAqua comes with the Component Designer as the primary component editor. It improves the usability and developers' productivity. The new component designer featured a redesigned user experience for better layout management, improved Layout Manager for easier user interaction, and improved Structure Manager, including the new ability to Preview Xml.

 

WebFishEye
WebFishEye, inspired from Leopard Dock, is a revolutionary UI component which allows you to display and arrange your navigation items in modern, shiny and elegant way. WebFishEye includes dozens of innovative features such as the ability to customize the visual effects of the button, the ability to show sub items in Elegant Arc mode or Grid mode, as well as superior behaviors customizability and XAML support.

·         Leopard-style Stack Buttons: One of the key features in WebFishEye is its ability to display stack buttons similar to those available in Mac Leopard's Operating System. The stack button is primarily designed to let users select an item from a button in a convenient and elegant user experience. It allows you to display the Stack Buttons in either Elegant Arc style or in Grid style. The Elegant Arc style is suitable for relatively small number of stack buttons, while Grid style is designed for scalability which allows you to display more stack buttons.

·         Stunning Visual Effects: WebFishEye is the industry's first commercial-ready component that delivers innovative concepts and breakthrough features. Together with Microsoft Silverlight, it is now possible to add stunning visual effects that are never possible before in the Web. WebFishEye comes with 6 built-in stunning visual effects, such as jumping, reflection, flipping, and more. You can also combine the default visual effects to create your own cool effect.

·         Four-sides Docking: In addition to Mac's Dock-like features, WebFishEye also includes its own unique feature such as the ability to set the Docking position to any four sides of the screen. By default, the Docking is set to the Bottom side of the screen. The beauty of the Docking feature is that all WebFishEye features are automatically adapted to the selected Docking position. For instance, when the Docking is set to the Left position, the zoom animation and visual effects will automatically adjust its direction toward the correct position based on the Docking state.

·         Sophisticated Appearances and Styles: WebFishEye comes with several predefined styles that you can easily apply at design time. The styles are varying from classic Mac OS style to modern "Sirius Glowing" glass style. The built-in styles are designed to save your time for achieving spectacular Docking appearance.

·         Highly Customizable Layout: WebFishEye comes with several predefined styles that you can easily apply at design time. The styles are varying from classic Mac OS style to modern "Sirius Glowing" glass style. The included styles are designed to save your time for achieving spectacular Docking appearance.

·         Customizing the button size and the magnified button size : Big buttons in a Web-application can be pain when viewed under low-resolution monitor. It makes your Web-application less effective and ruin your Web-application style. In WebFishEye, you're able to set the button size in the navigation dock as well as the size of the magnified button size when it is focused.

·         Sophisticated Zoom Effects : WebFishEye offers more than just a normal default zoom effect when you hover and focus on a WebFishEye's button. You can set it to zoom when the mouse cursor touches the top of the button or when the mouse cursor enters the Silverlight panel. Feel free to combine it with other properties to create more spectacular animation effects.

·         Configurable Button Indicator: Besides offering highly customizable element, WebFishEye also provides you an easy way to change the button indicator. The default indicator is a blue dot, but you can change it with your own custom image or a shape from an XAML string or XAML URL.

·         Informative tooltip in every button :WebFishEye features an informative tooltip in every WebFishEye's button. The tooltip itself is also customization-friendly. You can use complex images or attach an XAML string to "skin" the tooltip. You are also able to set the font and other font related properties, the shadow, the position, and the visibility of the tooltip.

·         Easy Stack Button customization : WebFishEye supports two kinds of Stack Button, Grid-style and Arc-style. Each Stack Button comes with its own customization. You can easily select the arc direction to left or right or hide the tooltip in the grid-style stacked buttons.

·         Elegant and classy separator : Separator in WebFishEye allows you to divide your buttons, especially when you have numerous of buttons in your WebFishEye. This means you will have a neat and elegant WebFishEye with a styish divider.

WebCoverFlow
WebCoverFlow is a sophisticated and advanced Silverlight-based Media Player designated to bring you the experience of iPhone-style Cover Flow interface. WebCoverFlow is capable to display pictures and movies in a 3D style perspective view. With WebCoverFlow, you can conveniently browse over a large amount of media and switch from one media to another by simply clicking the cover item.

·         Slideshow and Easy Navigation : WebCoverFlow features built-in slide show and navigation to let you easily build rich and interactive multimedia Web application. WebCoverFlow has enabled most default settings so that you can show your media by simply assigning the datasource to the WebCoverFlow control.

·         Intersoftpt proprietary Load-on-Demand, VirtualFlow : VirtualFlow is Intersoftpt unique technology that enables you to display virtually any number of covers without performance depletion. You can load any hundreds up to thousands of media without experiencing high memory consumption. This is made possible using highly advanced load-on-demand logic, which retrieves pictures asynchronously as needed, and aborts them as they become unnecessary. VirtualFlow is primarily useful in advanced scenarios or enterprise Web applications that require high scalability. For instance, an enterprise Web application that displays video-based knowledge base, the total number of items grows significantly as the business growth.

·         Comprehensive Video Playback : WebCoverFlow is not just great for displaying pictures - it is also perfect for playing videos. WebCoverFlow supports all video formats that Silverlight supported such as WMV, VC-1 and MP3. For the complete list of supported media types, please see Supported Media Formats and Protocols. When an item is detected as Video type, the video player will automatically appear inside the cover's boundary, also known as "In line video playing". This feature allows you to quickly preview a video without having to leave the current screen real estate. Besides supporting various video formats, WebCoverFlow also supports two types of video download mode, video buffering and video downloading.

·         Full Screen Support : WebCoverFlow includes built-in Full Screen function that allows you to view it in full screen mode. This feature is extremely useful in most application scenarios, especially when the WebCoverFlow control is relatively small in dimension due to the application's screen real state.

·         Innovative Perspective Mode : WebCoverFlow is equipped with two types of perspective mode, which allows you to easily set the perspective of previous and next items. The Scale mode is Intersoftpt own innovation which displays covers in scale mode instead of perspective and arranged backward on Z depth to create elegant visual effect.

·         Built-in predefined color theme and style : WebCoverFlow provides a vast array of predefined color themes to let you choose the color of the control easily and fast. It allows you to select the color theme that suits your Web application style. This means no extra effort needed just to change the color theme.

·         Control layout mode and the size of the cover : You can easily control the size of the cover to fit your need if you find the default one is too big or too small. Simply set the layout mode to manual and the CoverSize property. You can also turn on the automatic layout mode if you want the cover size to be calculated automatically to fill the cover flow item area.

·         Customizable startup position : WebCoverFlow gives you the freedom to determine which item you would like to show initially. You can either set it to show the first item, last item, or the middle one. Besides the default item index, you can also use custom settings to set the item index that you would like to show.

·         Total preview items : Preview items means items on the left and right side of the current focused item. By default, no preview rows are hidden and you can positively set the total preview items to suit your need.

·         Highly customizable layout: WebCoverFlow is truly a perfect multimedia viewer for your Web-application. It is not only visually stunning, but also features highly customizable layout elements. You can easily customize the panel or reposition the text title space, literally almost every element is customizable.

 

Licensing

·         One software license is required per developer.

·         Run-time royalty free.

 

System Requirement

 

Development Machine Requirements

·         Microsoft Windows 7

·         Microsoft Windows Vista

·         Microsoft Windows 2000/2003/2008 Server family

·         Microsoft Windows XP Professional or Home Edition

·         Microsoft .NET Framework v2.0 or higher

·         Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 with Silverlight 3 Development Toolkit

·         Intersoft WebUI Framework 3 or higher

·         Microsoft Silverlight 3 or later

·         Microsoft Expression Blend 3 or later

Server Machine Requirements

·         Windows Server 2000

·         Windows Server 2003 Enterprise

·         Windows Server 2003 Web Edition

·         Windows Server 2008

·         Internet Information Services 6.0 or later

·         Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 or later

·         Intersoft WebUI Framework 3 or higher

Client Machine Requirements

·         Microsoft Silverlight 3 or later

·         Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher

·         Mozilla V1.7 +for Windows/Mac/Linux/Solaris

·         Firefox V1.0+ for Windows/Mac/Linux/Solaris

·         Netscape V7.0+ for Windows/Mac/Linux/Solaris

·         Opera 9.5+ for Windows/Mac/Linux/Solaris/FreeBSD/BeOS/QNX

·         Apple Safari 3+ for Windows/Mac