Visual WebGui Blog

Visual WebGui for the web and cloud, is what Visual Basic was, for the desktop

2009-11-19T12:57:00Z

Just a decade and a half ago, the process of building a simple Windows-based application could have been described as a nightmare. The introduction of Visual Basic changed it so developers could for the first time implement Windows applications in an intuitive, graphical environment by dragging controls onto a form. The web revolution is here and now. Web had become very quickly the platform of choice for all kind of applications. The demand for web applications is ever growing and cloud computing...(read more)

Cloud application platform allows enterprise app on Windows Azure

2009-11-17T15:39:00Z

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)

A new document management web solution was developed in Visual WebGui over ASP.NET

2009-11-12T07:20:00Z

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)

Visual WebGui Web/Cloud Application Platform 6.3.12 Released

2009-11-10T13:46:00Z

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)

Win $10,000 for writing an application with fewer lines of code

2009-11-09T15:07:00Z

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)

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)