Publisher review:WebNotification is built on the top of FlyPostBackManager and closely integrated with WebDesktopManager to enable you to develop a shell-level notification system right into your web applications. The first kind of its type, WebNotification is built on the top of FlyPostBackManager and closely integrated with WebDesktopManager to enable you to develop a shell-level notification system right into your web applications. WebNotification allows specific server code to be invoked asynchronously at specified interval and upon success condition, it will display the assigned data and actions available in the context. With it, you could develop extremely rich and responsive applications similar to Outlook 2003 or MSN Messenger, and the possibility to develop new kind of applications.
- Service types - WebNotification offers two methods that you can choose for the client/server communication purpose. WebForm ServiceType, which is the default value for ServiceType property, is recommended when the data provider is private and does not need to be exposed, while WebService ServiceType is the recommended data provider setting when the methods need to be exposed for other usage.
- Unbound Notify - In its initial concept, WebNotification is a control that acts as a timer which periodically interact with a server side resource, either it is WebForm or WebService. In version 2.0 WebNotification enables to send notification from the WebForm page’s code behind without the needs to create additional WebService or other proxy resource, is also called as Unbound mode, this new feature enables basic scenarios that do not require periodic timer to be implemented easily and programmatically in code behind.
- Visual effects - WebNotification includes two predefined animation for visual effects: Fading and Sliding.When set to Fading, the WebNotification window will be displayed and then start fading from transparent to opaque, which resembles the Outlook 2003® animation's style and behavior. The Sliding mode resembles the MSN Messenger® animation's style and behavior where notification window will be slided from bottom to top.
- Built-in Action context menu - The Action context menu, which takes advantage of Hybrid Menu architecture and Visual Menu Builder for design consistency and enhanced integrated development experience, provides a way for end users to access a list of available actions and perform an action against notification event.
- Clickable notification window - WebNotification offers built-in capability for setting the popup window as clickable when the notification popup window appears. With this handy feature, you can redirect the users to other page when the control's window is displayed due to a notify event.
- Sound effect - WebNotification includes unique innovations which are not only enabling developers to easily create visually stunning notifications system, but also the built-in capability to play a sound file when valid notification events occur. This unique innovation allows you to deliver a sophisticated web application that resembles a desktop system.
- Integration with WebDesktopManager - With a single property set, you can set the WebNotification control to be integrated into the WebDesktopManager instance which hosts the WebForm. When integrated, the notification popup window will be displayed at desktop level instead of current Window. This feature enables end users to conveniently access to the notification popup regardless of the active Window.
- Asynchronous notifications retrieval - WebNotification used FlyPostBack™ technology (a.k.a. AJAX) to perform communication with server side in order to obtain Notifications data. The asynchronous approach is crucial for smooth and uninterrupted user experience. This feature is built-in and does not require you to perform additional configuration.
- Elegant Object Model And API - WebNotification is designed to be easy to consume by developers from any background. Unlike other similar controls, WebNotification provides a set of strongly-typed object model as the data backbone for client/server communication.The central of the architecture is the WebNotificationEvent object which contains the information required by WebNotification control to receive new notification events.
- Full control on interval, display timeout and behavioral settings - You can customize many runtime aspects and behaviors on how you want the WebNotification to behave, in addition to the fully customizable styles. For example, you can change the Interval property to specify how often the control should check for new notifications. The DisplayLatency property allows you to control how long a notification window should stay visible to the user.
- Object collection-based custom properties - WebNotification is built to cover some advanced scenarios which would commonly be faced by developers while building complex web application. One of the scenarios is the ability to pass custom properties along with the notification event to the client side.For instance, you may want to send the RowID along with the notification event so you can get the ID in the client side and perform further extensibility. In WebNotification, you can send custom property easily in collection-object friendly approach. WebNotification used Dictionary based type and is able to be serialized perfectly into XML Format.
WebNotification is a ASP.NET script for Forms and Controls scripts design by QuarX.
It runs on following operating system: Windows.
Operating system:Windows
WebNotification script details 
