Visual WebGui Blog

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

Visual WebGui — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:17:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Tips for IT Security in RIAs

Visual WebGui — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 06:23:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Cast your vote for 2011 Community Choice Awards

Visual WebGui — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:21:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Security - Overcoming Data-Centric RIA Challenges

Visual WebGui — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:22:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Visual WebGui — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:55:00 GMT

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...(read more)

State Management - Overcoming Data-Centric RIA Challenges

Visual WebGui — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 08:09:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Data-Binding - Overcoming Data-Centric RIA Challenges

Visual WebGui — Tue, 24 May 2011 13:55:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Ajax Connectivity - Overcoming Data-Centric RIA Challenges

Visual WebGui — Wed, 18 May 2011 08:22:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Transformation of Client/Server application to Windows Azure

Visual WebGui — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:12:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Academy Webcast: Moving C/S applications to Windows Azure

Visual WebGui — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:47:00 GMT

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...(read more)

How Visual WebGui helps ASP.NET Cloud-based apps

Visual WebGui — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:41:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Visual WebGui — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 11:52:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Visual WebGui — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 13:13:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Visual WebGui — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:26:00 GMT

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...(read more)

VWG extended ListView control

Visual WebGui — Sun, 23 May 2010 06:22:00 GMT

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...(read more)