Until now, displaying interactive high resolution images in a web application required plugins or complex scripting. With PowerWEB Zoom for ASP.NET, all of this has changed. This image control allows functionality like zooming into minute image details and smoothly panning across thousands of pixels. Image interactivity seen in applications like Google Maps and Windows Live Local can be immediately achieved without writing a single line of code. Just drag, drop and run your application!

With the Ajax-enabled PowerWEB Zoom for ASP.NET image control you will easily be able to:

• Enhance your user interface with rich client functionality
  Increase your website’s effectiveness by allowing users to directly interact with product images, large documents, and photos.
• Benefit from your existing ASP.NET development expertise
  A comprehensive server-side object model and client script API is provided with full ASP.NET rapid application development support.
• Add in-line interactivity to your websites' images
  Now users can selectively interact with hi-res images alongside related content instead of toggling between separate pages and pop-ups.
• Provide a high resolution image viewing with minimal browser requirements
  No plug-ins, Flash, Java, or ActiveX controls required!
• Use full resolution, high quality images
  Configurable dynamic rendering allows you to use high quality original images...no need to create thumbnails or prepare low resolution duplicates.
• Display high resolution images quickly and efficiently
  On-demand delivery of image sections provides immediate viewing without lengthy downloads.
• Get up and running in seconds!
  Image pan and zoom functionality can be made available without writing a single line of code.

PowerWEB Zoom is an Ajax-enabled image viewer control. Supercharge large photos without acquiring new development skills or performing any manual photo manipulation. ASP.NET developers can focus on creating rich applications. Zoom handles the difficult tasks of image rendering and delivery.

Features available in Zoom:

• Compatibility with ASP.NET 1.x and 2.0
• Cross-browser support
• Interactive image panning and zooming
• Intuitive interface and on-screen tools such as a Zoom Slider, Compass Navigator, Magnifier and Thumbnail
• Configurable keyboard shortcuts for all controls
• On-demand delivery of image data
• On-demand image scaling and rendering
• Configurable render quality modes
• Interoperability with all other PowerWEB products for producing richer user experience
• Server object and event model
• Client-side API for additional integration and customization

Environments

PowerWEB Zoom for ASP.NET will operate on any Microsoft operating system that fully supports the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 and higher, as by nature, .NET components are dependent on the Framework rather than a specific operating system. The components can be used with any .NET compliant language, but have only undergone testing with the following languages:

• C#
• VB.NET

PowerWEB Zoom for ASP.NET components have been tested in the following development environments: 

• Visual Studio .NET 2005, 2008, 2010 and 2012
• Visual Web Developer Express

Browser Support

PowerWEB LiveControls for ASP.NET has been tested for use in the following Web Browsers:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8, 9 for Windows
• Google Chrome
• Firefox for Windows
• Firefox for Macintosh OS X
• Safari for Macintosh OS X