A new mobile app by VWG allows users to stay connected

We just released a new mobile app that allows our users, followers and community members to stay connected anytime, anywhere.

The app provides an  easy access to the latest updates, forum posts, tweets, YouTube movies and more from a centralized location. The application which was created using Conduit’s tools supports Android, iPhone, Windows Phone and BlackBerry devices.

Feedback and suggestions for improving this great tool are much welcome!

All you have to do is scan the QR code with your phone’s camera or go to this URL from any browser or any of the devices above.

http://vwg.mobapp.at/

A new mobile app allows VWG users to stay connected anywhere.

.NET / HTML5 Enterprise Mobile Framework

As mentioned here before the Visual WebGui Mobile Team is working on a breakthrough .NET Mobile Framework that would enable .NET developers  to leverage their existing skills for developing cross-platform HTML5-based mobile apps within Visual Studio.

The Visual WebGui Mobile Framework will allow the .NET development paradigm for creating Form Factor and Device aware, browser-based applications that are totally secure and can use local device resources through PhonGap integration. This makes Visual WebGui the first framework within the Microsoft camp that allows leveraging existing skillset to develop HTML5 mobile applications.

A first preview release is due towards the second half of January 2012. This preview will be accompanied by a mobile email application demo (iPhone look & feel) developed with the framework’s preview. The preview version will support gestures and animations in transitions and will include the following designated mobile controls:

• ListView
• TreeView
• Toolstrip
• TabControl
• TextBoxButton
• RadioButton
• Panel
• Label

The next framework version is expected in the beginning of Q2 2012 which will be another phase in fulfilling the Visual WebGui promise of allowing .NET development for cross-platform HTML5 Web, Cloud and Mobile within Visual Studio.

.NET / HTML5 Enterprise Mobile Framework Update.

ASP.NET developers turn to Visual WebGui for completing rich internet applications

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 for the desktop users very easy.

The richer GUI of Visual WebGui compared to ASP.NET conveyed some initial concerns about performance. But the Visual WebGui performance turned out to be a surprising advantage as the website maintained good response times.

Working with Visual WebGui required a paradigm shift for the development process as some of the usual methods of coding with ASP.NET did not apply. However, the transition was fairly easy due to the simplicity and intuitiveness of Visual WebGui as well as the good support and documentation.

“The shift into a different development paradigm was eased by the Visual WebGui web forums which are very active thanks to a large, involved community. There are also several video and web pages dedicated to answering the most commonly asked questions and pitfalls” Dave Bhatia, Systems Engineer who added “A couple of issues such as deploying on IIS7 seemed to be show stoppers at first, however the solution was readily available in a white paper on the Gizmox website.”

The full story is found on the Visual WebGui website:

http://www.visualwebgui.com/Gizmox/Resources/CaseStudies/tabid/358/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/964/The-Center-for-Organ-Recovery-Education-gets-a-web-based-expenses-management-system.aspx

Windows human resources system moved to web with only 1 developer

Dawsons needed to upgrade their existing Windows Forms LAN human resources system to allow better and flexible access to the ever increasing data size as labor hire clients are demanding easy access to copies of tickets and licenses and etc. The company has some 30,000 applicants on file, but access to this data has been complex and limited with the current system.

Therefore the IT department was asked to find a possible solutions that would allow creating a web based application while utilizing as much of the existing Windows Forms code as possible. Visual WebGui was found to be highly regarded in many frameworks comparisons so the team decided to give Visual WebGui a try. It didn’t take long for them to recognize that the Visual WebGui controls appear and react over the web the same as desktop controls. This and the fact that most of the code was directly ported which saved Dawsons hundreds of development hours are what make Visual WebGui so unique and productive.

“My first impression of Visual WebGui was perhaps disbelief. Not being a seasoned Web programmer, I initially found it hard to accept so much functionality from a web based application. Also, the speed is exceptional” said John Sainsbury, Financial Controller of the Dawsons Group who added “Since working with Visual WebGui, I have showcased parts of the application to our major clients, some of whom use SAP portals, and they are amazed.”

The result was so satisfying that the company is now looking to produce a mobile version for accessing the labor pool on the go. “By removing the barriers of the local network, Visual WebGui has changed how we can do business” said Lloyd Everist, General Manager Dawsons Group.

Visual WebGui puts Dawsons human resources system on the web with only 1 developer.

Upgrades and extensions to the Visual WebGui core capabilities

In the past few months the Visual WebGui core team has been intensively working on upgrading the overall out-of-the-box capabilities of Visual WebGui by extending and adding controls and features within the system. A version incorporating all the new capabilities and features is expected to be released before the end of the year.

The following list includes some of the major extensions and enhancements:

New Strip Controls

• ContextStrip
• MenuStrip
• ToolStrip
• StatusStrip

RibbonBar

• Add a ToolStrip to the RibbonBar control.
• Allow the ToolStrip to be shown either above (default) or below the RibbonBar.
• Allow the RibbonBarPage (content) to be minimized.
• Add a round button to the top left corner of the RibbonBar.
• Clicking on the RibbonBar round Button a Form will show, while not hiding the Button.
• Change the RibbonBarGroups background on mouse over.
• Allow RibbonBarButtons to be of three size modes Small/Medium/Large without requiring to place the button in a stack item.

New Containers

• Panels can be docked at run-time to all directions inside a container and either pinned or auto-hidden. They can also contain other such dockable panels.
• New ExpandableGroupBox – Clicking on the header hides and shows the content pane.
• TabControl headers could be shown below the contents instead of above.

DataGridView

• Can group by column. Dragging a column header or more at run-time to a designated pane at the top of the grid will group the table by that column.
• Introduced table filtering on the column level, based on the value type of the column.
• New hierarchical grid. Will be able to display a table as it relates to a field on a row on the grid, below that row as part of the overall view.
• Run-time ability to select what columns will be displayed, by clicking on the related button and selecting the columns from the dialog.
• Column auto-fit layouts introduced.
• Multi cell selection modes introduced.
• Cell click action options introduced.
• Introduced the ability to determine if and how row expansion indicators are shown.
• New cell border styles introduced.
• New row border styles introduced.
• Allow the hierarchical grid to be virtualized
• Vertical scroll bound options introduced.
• Add a property that determines if when resizing a row all other rows will be resized to that new height.
• ToolTip shows the full column header text when column is too small to show all the header text.
• Double click on column separator will expand the column to content’s size.

ComboBox

• Added a property to set the character casing of the inputted text.
• Sorting options introduced.
• Shows an overflow indicator and tooltip when closed and contained text is longer than can be shown in control’s width.
• Allows setting the default value that is shown when there are no items.

PropertyGrid

• Property filtering at run-time introduced.

RadioButton

• Added a Button view.

Upgrades and extensions to the Visual WebGui core capabilities.

The votes are in and winners chosen for a free Visual WebGui ProStudio License

First we would like to thank each and every one of you who have supported Visual WebGui in the nominations for DevProConnections and Windows IT Pro. We appreciate all of our customers and friends of Gizmox for being with us each step of the way in our efforts to bring our unique products to the forefront of code trans-positioning and migration.

Without further ado – Congratulations to our 3 big winners!

• Gevorg Horomyan
• Marcin Pytel
• Ugur Yildirim

Please contact us at your earliest convenience at marketing@gizmox.com to receive your free Visual WebGui ProStudio License! We know you will benefit immensely from the software and please let us know your feedback as well.

Also – keep your eyes and ears open for the winners of the actual Community Choice Awards which will be announced in the December 2011 issues of Windows IT Pro, SQL Server Magazine, and DevProConnections.

Once again, thank you all for your time and effort in voting for Gizmox’s revolutionary Visual WebGui as the best add-in and cloud computing product or service. We hope to see you with us as we continue to bring you better, more improved software.

For anyone interested in other industry awards, there is also a Visual Studio Magazine Readers Choice Awards that can be viewed at the following link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KFB6YJC

Keep up to date with all the news and coverage of Visual WebGui on their website www.visualwebgui.com, on Twitter @VisualWebGui, or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/VisualWebGui.

Nominate Visual WebGui for your chance to win a Free ProStudio License

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.

We’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 (category #5) please select “Gizmox Visual WebGui”.

To receive a license simply let us know you nominated by Tweeting “I just nominated @VisualWebGui for the [Insert as appropriate: WindowsITPro  / DevProConnections] 2011 Community Choice Awards for a chance to win a license” – OR – writing on our Facebook wall/LinkedIn group “I just nominated Gizmox for the [Insert as appropriate: WindowsITPro  / DevProConnections] 2011 Community Choice Awards”.

We’ll be selecting a few ‘nominators’ who will be announced as winners on those social media channels and giving them a license.

But wait – there’s more! If you get 10 more people to nominate us, you will definitely receive a license. To let us know they came from you, they need to write YOUR name when they tweet or post on our walls. (“I just nominated @VisualWebGui for the [Insert as appropriate: WindowsITPro  / DevProConnections]  2011 Community Choice Awards @YOUR name“)

Why should you nominate VWG?
Visual WebGui is a revolutionary tools that enables desktop applications to be migrated to the cloud/web mobile instantly. VWG also enables you to write new code in .NET and create HTML5 rich internet applications.

We invite you to pass these link on to improve your chance of winning a license

• DevProConnections: http://bit.ly/phWNzv
• WindowsITPro : http://svy.mk/n0cpVE

Why Windows 8 does not mean the end for .NET development

Since the demo of Windows 8 given by Microsoft Vice President Julie Larson-Green at the recent D9 conference windows developers have been described in many articles as feeling “Horrified” “Worried” “Deeply Concerned”.

But no matter what Microsoft confirms about Windows 8 come September, whether they decide to stop supporting .NET or put more emphasis on the advantages of HTML5 over it, VWG enables .NET to appear as HTML/HTML5 on the client. Visual WebGui ensures that Windows 8 does not mean the end for .NET development.

via GeeksWithBlog – Full blog post here: Why Windows 8 does not mean the end for .NET development.

State Management – Overcoming Data-Centric RIA Challenges – Visual WebGui Blog

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 critical decisions and choices by themselves. The stateless environment is much more complex and risky as the developer also needs to write explicit code for each element based on their decision. Visual WebGui offers a solution that unlike ASP.NET and most web frameworks is stateful.

The following blog post describes the unique Visual WebGui approach that allows a stateful solution while eliminating the usual obstacles of storing the state of a web application.

State Management – Overcoming Data-Centric RIA Challenges – Visual WebGui Blog.

Gizmox Ranked in Top Ten of Cloud Vendors by SD Times

Gizmox Ranked in Top Ten of Cloud Vendors by SD Times.

For the 2nd year in a row Gizmox is recognized by SD Time as one of the top industry leaders and innovators that “write the songs that make the whole world sing”.

This year you can find us under the Cloud category which “is where the pundits say organizations need to be, citing the big benefit of cost reduction to an organization in terms of hardware and people to maintain the server room. The *-as-a-service model is also appealing to companies who want to “pay as they go” for software and platform use. It’s a race to the clouds, and these are the early leaders.”

Read more on SD Times >