Visual WebGui Open Source RIA Platform Blog

Visual WebGui Web/Cloud Platform last 6.4 Preview version released

2009-10-21T10:23:00Z

Visual WebGui 6.4 Preview 4 was released and available for download here . This version presents an important progress as Preview 4 is the last Preview version of the 6.4 version. This means that from now on, every revision released of Visual WebGui 6.4, will only introduce stabilizations to this version and will not add new functionalities or infrastructure changes. Visual WebGui 6.4 allows to take advantage of incredibly fast application development without sacrificing the essential flexibility...(read more)

Open Letter to the Editor of CIO regarding Cloud applications

2009-10-21T10:06:00Z

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)

Visual WebGui 6.3.11 released with a designer fix

2009-10-19T13:18:00Z

Visual WebGui version 6.3.11 released after the R&D team had a major breakthrough with an issue that had been with us from day one of the Visual WebGui designer. The issue ( VWG-642 ) which caused the designer to get closed is now resolved and included in this version as well as in the upcoming 6.4 Preview 4 version. This means that you will have to get used to not closing the designer every now and then... The irony of it all is that all the hours spent on finding this issue resolves in simply...(read more)

A new Power Management solution can save on hardware and resources for IT

2009-10-18T15:08:00Z

Navot Peled, CEO of Gizmox, challenged the “Green IT trend” with the announcement this week that its product, Visual WebGui , has been successfully providing energy and environmental benefits to enterprises, with its solutions that dually cut costs for hardware and software. “Over the past 2 years, enterprises have been successfully using our product – Visual WebGui, and reaping the environmental and energy benefits while saving money,” said Peled. “To move the industry forward, it’s not the individual...(read more)

Should Visual WebGui be used for the Umbraco Back office UI

2009-10-18T07:01:00Z

Daniel Bardi, a Visual WebGui user shared his experience with the Umbraco community as he wrote in his post "...The UI is amazing and works in all known webbrowsers... it's the reason I had decided on the platform for the project (and by reading the many, many reviews). The framework allows non-web developers (or winform developers) to build web applications using a WinForms development environment. No more worries about session and state. The web applications runs on the server and is "projected...(read more)

Visual WebGui rescues Talex in web enabling its HelpDesk system frontend

2009-09-13T15:23:00Z

A new Visual WebGui legacy application migration to Web case study is available. Taldesk, Talex HelpDesk solution, which was initially developed as a Windows application (Visual Basic 6) needed to be available from different locations and browsers without the need to install any plugins or other components. The company tried building a Web client solution in ASP.NET but encountered many problems and difficulties so it looked for an alternative solution. After a proof of concept “Visual WebGui turned...(read more)

Save your Visual Basic 6.0 applications with a new migration solution

2009-09-08T15:46:00Z

Save your Visual Basic 6.0 applications with the new ArtinSoft/ Visual WebGui VB 6.0 to Web & Cloud migration solution. ArtinSoft and Gizmox have joined forces to provide a comprehensive solution to migrate legacy Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 applications to a Web-based DHTML or Microsoft Silverlight. The new joint offering provides a complete solution for taking current Visual Basic 6.0 or Microsoft Windows Forms applications and moving them to a Web-based environment, saving deployment, remote...(read more)

Visual WebGui 6.3.10 Web & Cloud platform released

2009-09-08T15:38:00Z

The latest Visual WebGui version was released today providing further stablization to 6.3.x. The new version is available to download for free in VWG SDK and Express Studio versions and with a 30-day free trial with the Professional Studio. View Change log > Download now >...(read more)

A new set of ASP.NET Controls Wrapping tutorials available

2009-09-03T13:04:00Z

A new set of How To tutorials that show how to leverage 3rd party controls and use them within Visual WebGui projects was published. The articles demonstrate and walk through the wrapping process of a few common controls created by companies like Infragistics, ComponentOne and Telerik into Visual WebGui. Visual WebGui allows simple & fast development & deployment of Web/Cloud applications while providing full flexibility & extensibility of other ASP.NET components. These are the articles...(read more)

A new Visual WebGui web developers community blog launched

2009-08-28T07:38:00Z

The Visual WebGui web developers community continues to initiate with some more cool projects. We are proud to present the Genius Code project. GeniusCode.net is the spontaneous idea of Ryan Hatch and Jeremiah Redekop - the blog includes anything from screencasts to code articles while the idea is that Anyone can be a genius. "We've discovered some tools that developers can use in order to implement their ideas quickly and effectively," said Ryan and added that "the blog focuses on LLBLGen and Visual...(read more)

A new Social Networking blogging concept created with Visual WebGui

2009-08-25T11:48:00Z

MyTimelineOnline is a unique blogging website featuring advanced controls that allows users to document their life, or the life of a loved one and to share their collective experiences within their social network and with the world. MyTimelineOnline features a control originally designed by MIT and converted to .NET by Rob Chartier. The timeline view allows users to quickly navigate several years' worth of postings to explore what events occurred in their own life or the lives of others. The site...(read more)

Patch Theme download for Visual WebGui 6.3.9

2009-08-20T08:31:00Z

A Patch Theme that fixes some renedering issues for version 6.3.9 was released. Fixes for these issues have already been implemented in the upcoming version 6.3.10 and will also be relased with that version. The patch is a VWG v6.3 Theme. There is no installation required for using it. All you need to do to use it is: Either add the project or the assembly to there references of your Visual WebGui Application project Register the Theme with the name "PatchTheme" and select it as the default theme...(read more)

Thank You Twitter Hackers

2009-08-18T15:06:00Z

The repeated Twitter hacking exposes the complex and serious security issues on the web. "The repeated Twitter hacking exposes the complex and serious security issue on the web. Unfortunately for Twitter (Google Apps, Facebook, and others), the problems have unfolded in a public arena, forcing them respond quickly to calm users and resulting in a short term solution (that clearly has not been working!). What is unknown to many internet users is that the problem doesn't end with Twitter's band aid...(read more)

The Geeks are back on a role with a new episode

2009-08-16T09:35:00Z

The Visual WebGui Geeks are back after a short break with a new episode that is available on the Geeks on a role blog . Episode 6 of "Geeks on a role" Version 6.4 is it really that good? concentrates on the new features of version 6.4 and the differences between the upcoming version and the current version. In the episode, the geeks basically show & explain what should be expected from this new version. Watch now......(read more)

Visual WebGui Professional Studio 6.3.9 released

2009-08-13T11:40:00Z

Visual WebGui Professional Studio version 6.3.9 was released. This version includes several new features & enhancements of previous studio versions as well as some fixes and support for IE 8. In addition, the new 6.3.9 version includes a simple and convenient way to specify what runtime version of Silverlight that the Visual WebGui application should support. 6.3.9 versions of Visual WebGui Community SDK & Express Studio are expected to be available for download on the website in the next...(read more)