Visual WebGui Blog

ASP.NET developers build rich management system using the VWG extension

2011-11-17T08:17:00Z

When The Center for Organ Recovery & Education (CORE) decided they needed a web application to allow easy access to the expenses management system they initially went to ASP.NET web forms combined with CSS. The outcome, however, was not satisfying enough as it appeared bland and lacked in richness. So in order to enrich the UI and give the web application some glitz, Visual WebGui was selected. Visual WebGui provided the needed richness and the familiar Windows look and feel also made the transition...(read more)

Tips for IT Security in RIAs

2011-08-24T06:23:00Z

Rich internet applications are growing fast in the business and enterprise application landscape as more and more software managers and corporate decision makers are electing to place rich internet applications (RIA's) into their organizations. But with the many advantages of rich internet applications over the client/server deployments, organizations also find many new aspects they need to master and overcome - one of them is understanding the new security vulnerabilities of the rich web based applications...(read more)

Cast your vote for 2011 Community Choice Awards

2011-08-11T08:21:00Z

DevProConnections and WindowsITPro are now accepting nominations for the 2011 Community Choice Awards. These awards allow you to nominate developer products and services for special recognition. I’d like you to consider nominating Visual WebGui and as a thank you, will be giving away a few licenses. All you have to is click the links below and in the “ Add-In ” category on the DevProConnections survey (category # 1) and “ Best Cloud Computing Product or Service ” category on the WindowsITPro survey...(read more)

Security - Overcoming Data-Centric RIA Challenges

2011-07-19T07:22:00Z

This is the 4th and last post discussing the challenges in developing business RIA applications. This week I am going to talk about security. According to leading IT analysts, web applications and in particular Ajax RIA’s have become the most vulnerable elements of enterprise IT infrastructure. As an increasing number of organizations come to depend on rich Internet-based applications that leverage the power of AJAX, Silverlight Flash and the emerging HTML5 technologies, businesses must find ways...(read more)

WPC 2011: Move your mission-critical/Enterprise apps to the Cloud

2011-07-12T12:55:00Z

Come and visit us tomorrow at WPC LA 2011 and learn how to move your mission-critical/Enterprise apps to the Win Azure Cloud. Tomorrow (July 13) at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) we'll be presenting our innovative migration solution Instant CloudMove . We’ll be showcasing (at the Windows Azure Building Blocks demo station) the unique tools for moving business client/server applications such as é.VISOR by Limón GmbH to Azure Cloud. The original application is a data-centric energy...(read more)

State Management - Overcoming Data-Centric RIA Challenges

2011-06-13T08:09:00Z

The 3rd chapter of the major challenges we pinpoint when coming to develop data-centric rich internet applications discusses state management. A major part of any web-app developers process, is to decide whether or not to keep the state of a particular control or function and what data to retrieve from the server. While with stateful environment developers work within a structured, well-defined and visual environment in a stateless environment developers work in a fluid environment and have to take...(read more)

Data-Binding - Overcoming Data-Centric RIA Challenges

2011-05-24T13:55:00Z

This is the second of a series of posts that discuss the major pains of rich data-centric internet applications development. This time I would like to discuss the data-binding task which becomes more and more complex as more data oriented and business applications make their way to the web. There are many JavaScript libraries and frameworks (such as jQuery) that enable developers to develop rich web user interfaces on the client side. There are also rich client-side controls that the developer can...(read more)

Ajax Connectivity - Overcoming Data-Centric RIA Challenges

2011-05-18T08:22:00Z

The transition of business applications from client-server to web based applications has brought significant improvement in terms of accessibility, deployment and maintenance but the typical data intensiveness and richness of those applications also brought many challenges in the development process. This is the first entry of a series of posts that will go over the major pains such as data-binding, state management, security and Ajax connectivity which is discussed here and how Visual WebGui eases...(read more)

Transformation of Client/Server application to Windows Azure

2011-03-08T14:12:00Z

Overview The economics of IT is changing rapidly, and organizations are searching to widen and secure availability of their systems and at the same time lower costs. The cloud concept was introduced to allow an IT consumption model where there is always as much computing power as needed when needed ('on-demand') and without having to invest in connectivity, servers, database access, storage space, CPU power and other infrastructure needs, just as we consume electricity. Running your systems on Microsoft...(read more)

Academy Webcast: Moving C/S applications to Windows Azure

2011-03-03T21:47:00Z

The Cloud and SaaS models are changing the face of enterprise IT in terms of economics, scalability and accessibility. As I wrote before Visual WebGui Instant CloudMove transforms your Client / Server application code to run natively as .NET on Windows Azure and enables your Azure Client / Server application to have a secured-by-design plain Web or Mobile browser based accessibility. On Tuesday 8 March at 8am (USA Pacific Time) Itzik Spitzen VP of R&D @ Gizmox will present a webcast on Microsoft...(read more)

How Visual WebGui helps ASP.NET Cloud-based apps

2011-01-27T10:41:00Z

Everyone is talking about Cloud computing and moving to the cloud (public or private), but very few have actually done it so far. The reason is that the process of migrating existing applications to the cloud is a lot more complicated than one might think which is exactly where the Visual WebGui technology comes in for a rescue. In the past year the Visual WebGui R&D Team have been intensively working on a tool-based solution that gives Microsoft application developers and enterprises a simpler...(read more)

ASP.NET Ajax will not be left behind the HTML5 rush

2010-11-14T11:52:00Z

It takes a short overview of Microsoft development tools and platforms evolvement in order to demonstrate the importance of supporting Web Forms development for ASP.NET Ajax with HTML5 enhancements. In an article that Todd Anglin publishes in Redmond Developers, under the title " Silverlight: What Web Forms Wanted to Be ", Todd says that ASP.NET was supposed to be Web Forms. A framework that meant to duplicate VB6 ease of development or rather its more mature successor Window Forms. Asp.Net was expected...(read more)

New tool helps modernizing Client/Server apps to VWG ASP.NET

2010-11-07T13:13:00Z

Upgrading a Client/Server desktop based application to ASP.NET Web or Cloud based environment is thought to be a very complex and risky process. Most of us are intimidated only by the thought of taking one of our large, business applications; one that we have been working on for quite a while now, not to say mission critical and migratie it to a differernt technology. Most of us will follow the good old saying: If it ain't broken why fix it, right?! Which means that we will eventually find our selves...(read more)

Introducing Visual WebGui's XAML programming model extension for web developers

2010-06-10T13:26:00Z

While ASP.NET provides an event base approach it is completely dismissed when working with AJAX and the richness of the server is lost and replaced with JavaScript programming and couple with a very high security risk. Visual WebGui reinstates the power of the server to AJAX development and provides a statefull yet scalable, server centric architecture that provides the benefits and user productivity of AJAX with the security and developer productivity we had before AJAX stormed into our lives. When...(read more)

VWG extended ListView control

2010-05-23T06:22:00Z

We would like to share with you the cool capabilities that the VWG extended ListView control allows over Asp.Net. An example for a cool implementation of the extended ListView control (created by a Visual WebGui community member) can be seen here: http://www.screencast.com/t/N2U5ZDRiNz You can also download the code and play with it Download Code If you would like to learn more about the extended ListView control you can watch the a webcast dedicated to that topic http://vimeo.com/11707236...(read more)