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

Webgui — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:01:08 GMT

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 now for your chance to win a Free ProStudio License

Webgui — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:25:36 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.

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

Visual .NET Development Power finally meets Web 2.0

Webgui — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 19:28:20 GMT

I’d like to invite you to a set of 2 webinars targeted for Visual WebGui newbies and beginners as part of the new completely free evaluation program for the Visual WebGui Experience.

Visual WebGui (VWG) has gained its fame for its simplicity that lets core Microsoft developers, develop rich ASP.NET Ajax based Web, Cloud or Mobile applications just the way they are used to developing desktop .NET apps. With over 200,000 .NET developers that have adopted Visual WebGui to write over 35,000 VWG applications you can be sure that VWG opens the new cross-browsers HTML5 horizons for developers.

The first session "Develop data-centric Ajax-enhanced, secured-by-design application with 50 screens in 30 days" is available at your choice of the following: March 29, March 31 and April 5.

The second sessions is also available at 3 different occasions at your convenient (April 7, 12 and 14) and it will focus on the graphic design aspect when creating a Web 2.0 UIs with VWG.

In addition to the webinars the program also includes the 30 day free trial downloads and prioritized support @ Gizmox’s evaluation forums for 30 days.

I am looking forward to your participation – please register by clicking here:
http://www.visualwebgui.com/Gizmox/Landing/tabid/674/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/911/Free-Fully-Supported-Evaluation.aspx

How We’re Staying Ahead of the Cloud Curve

Webgui — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:38:51 GMT

You don’t need us to tell you that cloud computing is a hot market. According to Distinguished Analyst John Bittman and a recent Search CIO article, Private cloud computing is more than a virtualized environment, sixty-six of attendees at a Gartner Data Center Conference plan to pursue the private cloud by 2014.

And while everyone is talking about moving to the cloud (public or private), very few are actually doing so. Here’s why: The process of migrating resources to the cloud is a lot more complicated than you may think. This is where we come in.

Recognizing this gap, we created a tool-based solution that gives application developers and enterprises a simpler way to migrate to the cloud. We’re proud to present Instant CloudMove, the only platform that transforms desktop apps’ code to the cloud, in addition to web and mobile deployments.

To learn more, you can check out our press release and watch the video below. And if you have any feedback, we’d love to hear about it.

AssessmentTool webcast for .NET application migration to ASP.NET Web or Cloud

Webgui — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:13:28 GMT

I would like to invite you to join us for a webcast on Thursday, Dec 2nd @ 17:00 GMT+2 which will explain and show how to run the new Visual WebGui AssessmentTool and to understand the report it generates. We will run the AssessmentTool on .NET compiled Assemblies (dlls and exes) and learn how to assess the readiness of the application for Cloud/SaaS in terms of the complexities of the manual adjustments that are required for the migration.

The AssessmentTool webcast is the 1st of a series of sessions presenting the new CloudMove migration tools suite. However, we will also talk about the rest of the CloudMove solution roadmap in this session and mainly the upcoming TranspositionTool that will allow to automatically convert .NET Windows Forms code into a Cloud/SaaS ready code using VWG platform.

You can learn more about the AssessmentTool here.

Free registration link.

Visual WebGui is one (small) step far from its first ever official release

Webgui — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:29:17 GMT

Gizmox R&D team has been working very hard in order to bring our 6.4 version of Visual WebGui to the required stability level. During that period, 13 QA versions have been produced and our QA team and beta-testers group have been testing it for a coupon real-world applications while covering all the possible scenarios we could think of.

The stability added in this version is really across the framework, mostly concentrating in client-side behavior and display matters but also in server-side and fine-tuning infrastructures. All of the Visual WebGui controls were touched somehow and brought to a much higher level of stability and completeness - compatibility with Windows Forms (MS .NET Client/Server).

The Visual WebGui Team is now very close to declaring the Visual WebGui 6.4 final Release version. Users who consider moving to Visual WebGui 6.4, should know that we have already completed 1832 development task-entries in Visual WebGui 6.4 as a total. Each such entry is a change to the framework, very large, very small and everything in between. In Visual WebGui v6.4 RC1 alone, 272 of those task-entries have been completed.

6.4 RC1 free downloads and free trials are available here.

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

Webgui — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 07:38:20 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 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 to deliver this simple and easy development paradigm for web. But it failed, Microsoft could not reproduce stateful based development paradigm for a stateless environment. Years later Microsoft rolled out Silverlight that is really another trial to come up with Web Forms paradigm for website development. Todd says in his article " Silverlight is what Web Forms wanted to be, a stateful application development model that can be deployed and updated as easily as traditional Web sites. Unencumbered by the limits of stateless pages, developing for Silverlight finally achieves what ViewState could not: It allows traditional desktop application developers to reuse their skills and development patterns for applications that can be deployed with no installation, save for the Silverlight plug-in"

However, Silverlight does not seem to deliver as well, for 3, main reasons: it is propriety plug-in that enterprises hesitate to opt in for. It did not really maintain the classic state full development, and it did present a learning curve for the VB6 and WinForms developers. HTML5 is hitting faster and stronger than expected with its cross browsers, open approach and the support of world leaders: such as Google, Apple and now Microsoft and Adobe.

Todd says "Microsoft envisioned a world in 2002 where developing for the Web and Windows would be indistinguishable. Windows Forms and Web Forms tried to present a uniform approach, but ultimately Web Forms was bound by the limits of the Web and the vision was never fully realized."

Microsoft did make a huge step with Silverlight toward realization of the concept, but HTML5 takes it back to square one and to ASP.NET as a platform that target HTML.

And here is where Visual WebGui presents its value. VWG takes a different approach all together. It virtualizes Dot.Net code atop ASP.NET server, and by doing that, it provides 2 major achievements: In design time it enables the VB6 and WinForms classic development paradigm AS IS for ASP.NET Ajax, as Web Forms based development, with no learning curve for Microsoft core developers. In run time it enables again AS IS desktop richness and experience atop ASP.NET that turns ASP.NET Ajax into Rich Internet Application (RIA), deployed in a plain (plug-in free) cross browser environment and now with HTML5 frontend.

The outcome is the Web Form experience that Microsoft was trying to deliver with ASP.NET and later with Silverlight BUT IN A PLAIN HTML5 BASED BROWSER, with Silverlight-like rich user experience. This makes ASP.NET extension, Visual WebGui the first Microsoft shop solution to support stateful Web Form experience for HTML5. Very soon, developers will use the same drag & drop, stateful and event driven development paradigms of VWG to build perfect ASP.NET based data centric apps using HTML5 frontend for both desktop browsers and mobile browsers.

And what HTML5 features Visual WebGui is going to support? Among HTML5’s features and capabilities which VWG is about to support are further UI and behaviors flexibilities, Canvas, SVG and additional boost utilizing the local-storage
Some examples:

Utilizing a HTML5’s Canvas element which enables client side manipulation on images and client drawing simply by dragging the Canvas control onto the form and hooking-up to its events. Streamlined according to VWG’s concepts, you will of course be able to choose whether to handle events on the client side or on the server. Providing full jQuery support for those client scripting
VWG will enable the usage of the events bound scalable vector graphics (SVG) by dragging an SVG element to the Form and manipulating it through Object Oriented code or direct HTML5 tags & attributes. Events will be handled either by the server or by the client according to the developer’s choice.
Native HTML5 Audio, Video and media elements will be drag-able to the Form, controlled through Object Oriented code and events or directly customized using standard HTML5 tags & attributes, jQuery and JavaScript.
HTML5 new form field types such as Required Text, Email, Range, Date, Search, Tel, Meter etc will be added to the list of available controls. Those controls will inherit VWG efficiency at runtime and at the same time they will enrich and enhance the interactivity of the application.
Full complementing support for CSS 3 such as Border Radiuses, HSLA, Opacity and others will be present through the theme designer. Transitions and Animations will be controllable through Object Oriented code or direct HTML5 tags & attributes.
Improved drag & drop experience utilizing the newest HTML5 drag & drop concepts.

Two giants are fighting and the third might win, Visual WebGui might be one of the winners of the RIA wars

Webgui — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 08:25:25 GMT

Latest announcements by Microsoft executives leave no doubt. Microsoft is shifting its support to HTML 5 and by doing so gives up on its RIA platform Silverlight which it repurposes for mobile. Adobe releases a Beta of a new HTML5 supporting tool kit, and by doing so also embraces the HTML5 option. It does look as if both give in to the market preferences for standard, no-plug-in and non-propriety option of HTML5 (see "Microsoft favoring HTML5 over Silverlight: reports" ).

If we follow Microsoft's early announcements when launching Silverlight, Microsoft pointed out the value of Silverlight in two aspects: The first was the graphics and media richness it enables while the second was the .Net developer's quest for a simpler, .Net based RIA development.

In a new world where HTML 5 replaces Silverlight and Flash in providing a solution for the quest for standard rich internet, the second quest for simple .Net based development of rich Internet application is left unattended (now that Silverlight is off the shelf and no longer serves as RIA, developed the .NET way). Reading developers' reaction following Microsoft PDC in October 2010 is probably the best way to learn about the impact of this announcement:

"Silverlight is dead, quite a surprise they have for us in PDC this year. I think most devs arround the world were expecting just the opposite, the Silverlight 5 announce. I think Microsoft should had been more honest and recognize the big mistake they made, wasting so much time and resources in a technology that is never going to be used massively. I assume my mistake as a developer for the resources I invested in Silverlight. The most sad thing is there aren’t any tools for HTML 5 in .NET, those four years of Silverlight left us with the hands empty. I think is time to move to GTW, every evidence is screaming that Google is the future." (Quoted from this blog)

I must express my humble opinion here and say that there might be more to the Silverlight twist (and Flash) than meets the eye. It might also be a result of slow adoption rate in the business sector that pays for its applications (vs. the consumer that does not). Being in the business RIA market for some odd years, I have been hearing quite too often enterprise CIOs saying that they will not allow plug-in RIA solution for security reasons, no matter if it is Microsoft's or Adobe's. I have been also hearing enterprise CIOs complaining about the stiff learning curve and lack of productivity that the new RIA solutions impose. I have been hearing them complaining about the hardship of data binding and I have been hearing them complaining about slow response time of applications written with the new Ajax based RIA solution.

Visual WebGui does support HTML development the .NET way, and naturally supports HTML5

We have been there for the last 3 years, betting on HTML by boosting ASP.NET Ajax development and runtime and indeed, being highly rewarded by market opinion leaders, adoption and traction. We have been enabling the classic VB6-like desktop development paradigms for HTML based front-ends. And now more than ever it seems like we are here to collect the big prize. Visual WebGui enables the best of .NET simple and structured development paradigms for HTML5. Exactly where Microsoft has been aiming with Silverlight, but we target open standards non-propriety platform. And that is a big difference.

So dear developer, Silverlight might be dying but it is not necessarily Google GWT that you must migrate to. If you are a .NET developer, I do believe that it is Visual WebGui you are looking for. You will have the best, well entrenched .Net development practices only this time targeting the RIA winner HTML5 and JavaScript.

Building awesome apps is now a simpler task due to the new KB

Webgui — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:54:04 GMT

Visual WebGui revealed yesterday its new resource center called KB (Knowledge Base). The new Knowledge Base presents a big step forward in terms of the online support Visual WebGui provides for their developers community. The new developers oriented system dramatically improves the accessibility and availability of all the VWG resources required for supporting VWG development. The new KB incorporates all of the Visual WebGui resources in one place with an advanced interface to ease on finding the relevant information and to encorage community contribution.

Some of the new features and capabilities introduced by the new Knowledge Base are:

One stop shop for VWG resources
Enhanced UI
Better and more diversed categorization and filtering options
Easy search
On the fly filtering for search results
Contributors recognition

Visual WebGui promise to continuously improving the Knowledge Base by adding more features and upgrading the overall user experience and allow developers to find all the essential information needed for creating awesome apps.

The new Knowledge Base is located here. Check it out if you are .NET or Web developers; It is a cool system and the VWG team will also appreciate its community feedback in order to present the best experience for their developers.

Visual WebGui 6.4 RC0 version fulfills Gizmox's vision to eliminate Ajax pains

Webgui — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:09:48 GMT

Visual WebGui which was designed to solve the most painful issues for enterprise IT is now with its new 6.4 RC0 version fullfiling its promise to reproduce client/server richness and user experience on Web and Cloud, in a simple cost effective way.

"VWG was designed to solve what might be the most painful issues for enterprise IT; reproducing client/server richness and user experience on Web and Cloud, in a simple cost effective way and with standard Web, no-plug-in accessibility and absolutely secured end point. We took upon ourselves one of the most ambitious missions, one that the big software players could not solve," says Navot Peled, Gizmox CEO and adds "The goal was to create an end-to-end Web and Cloud solution that simplifies enterprise Ajax development experience to a VB6 level using Ajax methodologies to reproduce client/server richness and user experience on Web while enabling absolutely unhackable Ajax UI and one that also enables creative UI designs without the need to struggle with complex HTML, JavaScript and CSS styling. We wanted to make developers really feel at home, so we decided to expose 2 basic development experiences: one that leverages desktop developers' skills, providing Form based VB6-like development experience and one that leverages web developers' skills, with declarative XAML experience. The first one we call VWG application and the second is VWG sites. Visual WebGui 6.4 is the first version to fully deliver on that promise."

VWG has been collecting awards on its innovative approach and achievements, as well as rewarded with developers and enterprises responses and feedbacks. Its SDK has been downloaded more than 700,000 times within 2 years and there are over 35,000 VWG applications that were developed with its pre-release, partly featured SDK.

The new version's free & free trial downloads are available here.