New Visual WebGui SDK versions are out

New Visual WebGui web/cloud applications platform versions of the 6.4 beta1 and the 6.3 pre-release were released this weekend.
A new beta 1 version of the Visual WebGui 6.4 upcoming release is also available. Within 6.4 beta 1 version you will find a very large set of new features and a much more complete set of compatibility with the WinForms API.

An Independent Software Vendor cuts development budget for an internal timecard application by 66%

“by using Visual WebGui …DCSoft was able to lower the cost to be what was expected of WinForms development, not ASP.NET development!… the advantage of using Visual WebGui is easily seen by what skills were not required:  ASP.NET directives, HTML, DHTML, CSS, and AJAX concepts,” David Ching, Chief Applications Engineer and Microsoft MVP

VWG among 20 Coolest Cloud Platform Vendors

Cloud computing is poised to make big gains in 2010, Here, we take a look at the 20 coolest cloud platform vendors vying for solution providers’ attention.

Its Visual WebGUI platform is a way to enable enterprises to create rich and responsive Web applications with solid performance and security. And while Visual WebGUI is best suited for developing new Web apps and approving old ones it can also modernize legacy apps using standard technologies like ASP.net, DHTML and Silverlight. The open source offering has gained traction, and recently surpassed 30,000 deployments. Now Gizmox is taking Visual WebGUI commercial to make Web-dependent cloud applications.

A HR web based system delivered to one of Switzerland’s leading Telecom providers with a 25% budget saving

“Our customers were astounded how fast we could present them with the first prototype of their application… We considered using ASP.NET Ajax but in the end decided that the ease of UI development was a major reason for choosing Visual WebGui”

Visual WebGui 6.4 beta 1 released w/ jQuery integration

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Lifestyle China Database system allows desktop UI & functionality on the Web

“after certain tests and tries, we believed that Visual WebGui was the tool we dreamed about for developing such data dense Web-based solutions… The proven unhackable security and the ease of deployment and update totally relieve our worries and saved us tremendous labor and budget”

Via Visual WebGui Web applications platform

A sole developer was able to build a tour costing system’s web UI using existing VB6 skills

A sole developer was able to build a tour costing system’s web UI using existing VB6 skills

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Early Azure adopter sees financial benefits of cloud computing

Early Azure adopter sees financial benefits of cloud computing

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Visual WebGui adopts jQuery framework as its web/cloud apps client engine

We are excited to announce that the upcoming Visual WebGui 6.4 web/cloud application platform is going to adopt jQuery as its client engine in order to provide better support for cross browsers, enhanced UI behaviors and most important provide a familiar API to write Visual WebGui extensions such as custom controls and utilizing different protocols such as JSON and REST.

jQuery is a lightweight open source JavaScript library (only 15kb in size) that in a relatively short span of time has become one of the most popular libraries on the web. jQuery simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.

We believe that the combination will result in a powerful way to develop web applications allowing developers to encapsulate client code and different processes in to reusable blocks that provides support for rapid development of professional level applications. At the same time it will provide a way to extend these blocks to create new ones or to make existing ones interoperate with external resources or legacy code.

This provides Visual WebGui developers with a familiar way to develop applications using full object oriented environment utilizing the power of the server but at the same time the ability to write extensions using one of the most popular client side frameworks.

VWG 6.4 beta 1 which is planned to be released in the very near future will already include jQuery integrated available for custom development and usage within the different Visual WebGui controls. By the release of VWG 6.4 beta 2 all the client side code will be working with help of the jQuery library.

This has been a long standing enhancement requested by many community members, which had been made possible as a result of the extreme infrastructural work done in the 6.4 version. I believe it marks a new level in Visual WebGui’s development team achievements.

For more information about the new 6.4, bugs and features visit the official Forum.

A Technological New Year’s Resolution to Go from Thick to Thin…or Not?

As we head into 2010, we are surrounded by friends, relatives and colleagues making personal resolutions – usually focused around finances and weight. It seems that many people are committed to going from fat to thin…and the technological arena isn’t really any different. But my resolution is not about weight watchers, pilates, or whatever the diet of the year is.

You have probably all know about the emerging battle between the Google, thin client model and the fat client approach of Microsoft. Microsoft has no plans of losing weight this year as their fat client approach which requires users to having strong computers and to installing software secures their business. Google on the other hand would like you to think thin this year as they lead the light approach. This means that clients will eventually consume everything via a browser from the web (or Google). So the end-user computers can be less powerful as all they would need is a browser and internet access. This is a revolution in the way we consume our software and services and presents organizations with an opportunity to save great deal on infrastructure, hardware and maintenance. Keep in mind however that Google doesn’t do it because they really like us but because they also benefit from having a control over our activity.

At Gizmox (which produces Visual WebGui), we’re making a personal resolution, which isn’t to go from Fat to Thin (Client that is…), but rather to find a balance between Thick and Thin (Client that is…) approaches. We are seeing that the developers are increasingly excited about the Empty Client approach, an emerging open source method, which offers a different approach to architecting, developing and deploying AJAX applications.