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Due to Visual WebGui cloud application platform, developers can now deploy their applications to Windows Azure with the click of a button with no re-writes or new programming skills needed. “(now we can) quickly achieve what, a year ago, would have taken more people, more money, and a lot more time. It’s going to open up applications of sorts we’ve never seen before.” The ease of using Visual WebGui was a key benefit. Noted Naylor, “There was no learning curve with Visual WebGui. To a Windows developer...( read more ) Read More...

e-grou is an online document management and workflow collaboration service that was developed using Visual WebGui after the company gave a good effort to build that web application with ASP.NET but found that it was too time consuming and that performance also was an issue in certain cases. “...With Visual WebGui we ported our previous web client in just a couple of months with additional functionality, better performance, and looking much better from the graphical point of view... Choosing VWG reduced...( read more ) Read More...

Visual WebGui version 6.3.12 was released today as a further stabilization on the way to 6.4. The new release includes enhancements to the Control Wrapper such as improved support for 3rd party controls and a more stable overall operation after a few issues were resolved. Visual WebGui provides Develop, Run, Manage & Migrate benefits for Ajax empowered Web / Cloud applications Free download Visual WebGui 6.3.12 Development Tools >...( read more ) Read More...

In the first code challenge of its kind, Visual WebGui is offering a $10,000 and giving away prizes valued at thousands of dollars in their call to developers to be the first to submit a Webmail application written by another framework with fewer lines of code. Visual WebGui web/cloud platform's productivity is featured via the "Project Webmail", which is an Outlook-like web application with desktop responsiveness & performance & functionalities that was developed by a single developer in...( read more ) Read More...

So really, it is just about here! I leave in just over 48 hours to head to Las Vegas for the third annual US OpenForce (DotNetNuke conference), once again being held at Mandalay Bay along with DevConnections. If the previous two years were any sort of indicators this year is promising to be a good time! I’m excited about heading out to Vegas again, and getting to see all my DotNetNuke brethren. It’s going to be another busy week, registration and such on Monday, a keynote on Monday night. Conference...( read more ) Read More...

This is an Open Letter to the Editor of CIO in response to an article posted on Computer World discussing the five problems that supposedly keep legacy applications out of the Cloud. Dear Editor, In light of your recent article about the challenges that legacy application face in migrating to the cloud, below please find a response which provides answers to 4 of the most problematic issues. We believe your readers would greatly benefit from the information, and we regret that we were not directly...( read more ) Read More...

It’s been a few months since the last release of WikiPlex , but I honestly have good reasons – paternity leave! This updated version has taken in a lot of user feedback and put it into action – so thank you for contributing ideas… ( read more ) Read More...

In my previous post I wrote about a small utility that automatically generates Data Transfer Objects from LINQ to SQL Data Classes. Few days ago I had the time to add an important feature – the application can now generate DTO’s from ADO.NET Entity Framework Model as well. I also renamed the application to DTOGenerator and published it in CodePlex. Data Transfer Objects in 2 Diagrams There are really a lot of explanations about Data Transfer Objects in the web. You can read about them in the MSDN Magazine . But, Here is a 2 diagrams that show the concept of DTO’s in 2 most common scenarios: Getting Information: DAL=>BLL=>GUI (click to enlarge) Insert Information: GUI=>BLL=>DAL (click to enlarge) How to Use DTOGenerator Creating Data...

Few weeks ago I posted in my Hebrew blog a post about using Data Transfer Objects to work with LINQ to SQL and ADO.NET Entity Framework (that currently both of them doesn’t support working with POCO). One of the comments I got was that using DTO’s takes twice the time than not using them. That’s because you have to write DTO class for each entity and you also have to write  method in the DTO class that return the DAL object (the object created by the ORM and mapped to a table in the DB) from the DTO and vice-versa. Although I don’t think it’s too much work, and i think that the advantages are significant enough to make the effort worth, I wrote during my job a small code generator that create DTO’s for each entity in the LINQ to SQL DataClasses...

Some time ago Jim Cheshire wrote a book on VWD 2008 and recently book publisher kindly allowed us to provide four chapters as free downloadable PDF files. The following chapters are available: Creating Web sites Creating and Managing CSS Styles Applying Read More......( read more ) Read More...