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• Why Visual WebGui is the natural choice for Silverlight

  Visual WebGui combined with Silverlight is a platform to develop & deploy server based rich Silverlight applications. Leveraging an extremely graphically rich Silverlight as a presentation layer, maintaining the customizability using the same XAML editing tools (Expression Blend, Cider etc) only controlled by the server on runtime. Learn why Visual WebGui RIA platform is the natural choice for development & migration of rich Silverlight data centric & business centric applications: http://www.visualwebgui.com/Gizmox/CIOs/WhitePapers/tabid/528/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/542/Visual-WebGui-Silverlight-platform.aspx

  posted by gizmox 293 days ago

• Visual WebGui RIA Platform 6.4 Preview to be released soon

  Gizmox announced that Visual WebGui RIA Platform version 6.4 will be released as a preview version in the beginning of May. Since 6.4 includes many major, all-new features Gizmox decided to release it as a free Express Studio Preview version first, allowing Visual WebGui developers & community the opportunity to try it as soon as possible and experience its remarkable potential and value. In the meantime, 6.3.x which is now a stabilized version continues to be offered as a pre-release version. This will also give the devoted Visual WebGui developers community the opportunity to benefit from Visual WebGui's pre-release discount for a bit longer. Gizmox is offering a free upgrade to 6.4 for perpetual licenses and will reset the subscription period to start when the 6.4 version is stabilized and offered commercially. For those who would like a taste of the next version Gizmox will soon release a free preview of 6.4. Visual WebGui 6.4 discovers a leap forward in Visual WebGui's evolution and it will literally change the way you develop and design Rich Internet Applications. The new version combines the ease of Visual WebGui drag-and-drop application development with graphically-engaging visual designers to build Web UI's. The 6.4 preview brings a new dimension of collaboration between development and UI design tasks enabling simple and productive customization and creation of rich, branded, creative customer-facing Web 2.0 like UI's. This is enabled by new Control & Theme Visual Designers that add up to the Form designer and integrate with existing design software such as Photoshop, Expression Blend, Flash CS, and more to enable the most efficient developer and designer collaboration when customizing and creating new themes and controls. Both Theme and Control Designers provide easy management of the entire project's resources and the integrative capability to edit those resources. Visual WebGui 6.4 also introduces a new scalability server extension allowing multi-users usage scenarios. The Cluster Server also provides important redundancy to Visual WebGui web applications. Stay tuned for more information, samples and downloads to be released this month... http://www.visualwebgui.com/Developers/News/tabid/328/Default.aspx

  posted by gizmox 309 days ago

• Gizmox introduces Visual WebGui new Control & Theme Designer

  Gizmox CTO Guy Peled announced the new Control and Theme Designer expected to be released during May and a preview version that is going to be available in the near future. The new designer further simplifies the way to create a Custom control and theme to a Visual WebGui application. Visual WebGui is a rich internet applications plarform/framework allows to develop and deploy web applications using WinForms API and a WYSIWYG designer which results in a remarkable ROI.

  posted by gizmox 340 days ago

• Visual WebGui AJAX/Silverlight platform remains un-hackable

  More than 1,700 users unsuccessfully attempted to break into the Visual WebGui pipeline Tel Aviv, Israel February 16, 2009Gizmox, http://www.visualwebgui.com, developer of the Visual WebGui rapid application development program, today announced that no one was able to successfully hack into the Visual WebGui platform during the security challenge sponsored by the company that offered a $10,000 prize to anyone who could break into the Visual WebGui framework. The contest, which ran from November 3, 2008 through January 31, 2009, required participants to provide a reproducible pathway into the Visual WebGui pipeline in order to claim the prize. Despite break-in attempts by more than 1,700 users, Visual WebGui was not hacked and the prize remains unclaimed. According to leading IT analysts, web applications and in particular RIA technology based applications 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, or Flash technologies, businesses must find ways to secure their web applications and protect sensitive data that can be exposed on the server through the use of these technologies. The Visual WebGui "Empty Client" architecture is designed to simplify, enhance, and protect the deployment of complex, data centric, and ultra rich AJAX and Silverlight User Interface (UI) for the enterprise level. The Empty Client approach means the entire application flow, UI logic, and validations are developed and processed on the server and virtualized on the browser, while the web browser serves as a display for the output and a receptor for user input. With Visual WebGui's Empty Client architecture, only essential UI data is sent to the client, which includes no applicative or sensitive data, preventing the break in and theft of confidential information on the server. Through the Gizmox security challenge, Visual WebGui's "Empty Client" architecture has been proven to provide bullet-proof security to both AJAX and Silverlight applications deployed atop Visual WebGui. "No company has ever challenged people to break into their system, confident that their product would remain impenetrable. The fact that no one was able to successfully hack into the Visual WebGui pipeline demonstrates not only our belief in Visual WebGui's air-tight security, but proves that Rich Internet Applications developed with Visual WebGui are inherently safe and secure by design," said Navot Peled, CEO and founder of Gizmox. "As the Empty Client name indicates, the client holds no data or logic, and every action the client wants to take must be authorized by the server first. Not only does this significantly increase security, but the Empty Client design allows events to be raised on the server for every client action while also remaining flexible enough to make web applications responsive, scalable and customizable, enhancing the end-user experience." Visual WebGui is an open source RIA development & deployment platform atop standard .NET. Visual WebGui enables software developers to create and deploy rich enterprise level applications with "bullet proof" military grade security and desktop responsiveness which is virtualized on a standard browser with no specific installation. The on-server architecture allows users to develop rich web applications with WinForms methodologies and deploy to the web as AJAX or Silverlight applications, cutting development time up to a proven 90%. In addition, Visual WebGui allows users to port existing desktop applications to the web with just push of a button. The Visual WebGui Empty Client employs JavaScript, XSL and CSS to deliver UI's that look, feel, and behave like their desktop counterparts, allowing for the creation a of a true desktop experience on the web. RIA development and deployment with Visual WebGui provides an incredibly flat learning curve for Windows developers who feel more at home programming in Visual Basic, C#, and other desktop native programs, allowing enterprises to leverage existing staff, skills, software assets, and infrastructure to provide an overall faster time to market and reduced development costs in time and labor. During an economic downturn, Visual WebGui's cost saving value provides a strategic advantage to enterprises that are seeking cost-efficient technologies that can enhance existing IT capabilities.

  posted by gizmox 358 days ago

• Visual WebGui Releases new Studio Suite for web development

  Visual WebGui Studio Suite enables the building of enterprise-class rich internet applications with two open source products: The Professional Studio that offers subscribers unlimited technical support with enterprise-grade warranty and service level agreement (SLA) which is available for free download and the free Express Studio allowing absolutely free web development coupled with VS2008 Express Edition. The new Professional Studio Suite also offers enhanced developer experience (DX), and simplifies all aspects of web development to a degree never realized in web development before. Apart from the VWG designer, the feature list also includes complete integration into Visual Studio & ASP.NET, the complete Windows Forms Controls toolkit, 3rd party controls wrapper wizard and more. All these enable you to leverage existing skill sets, software assets, and infrastructure providing an overall faster time to market and reduced development costs. In addition, enterprise grade scalability and redundancy are available with server extensions and new enterprise-class services, such as prototyping, consulting, hot-fixes and more are available in order to optimize the development experience. Visual WebGuis commercial Studio Suite will offer commercial deployments at absolutely no additional cost. Major Features: DataGridView bi-directional data-binding support added Top-level property for a Form control implemented same as WinForms Major Visual Studio Integration stabilizations. Major Designer stabilizations. Presentation layer selector added. Ordering Tree-View functionality added VB project templates set completed (as in C#) Fully functional ImageList capabilities added A large number of bug fixes and adjustments towards WinForms API and runtime behavior also included. http://www.visualwebgui.com

  posted by gizmox 373 days ago

• Visual WebGui 6.2.3 SDK for RIAs Released

  Gizmox announces the release of version 6.2.3 of its SDK. This is a further stabilization and enhancement of the revolutionary 6.2 SDK which introduced the Visual WebGui Developer Experience with full Visual Studio integrationin, consolidate installation, incorporation of both the DHTML and the Silverlight in one package, and the ASP.NET wrapper wizard. The new 6.2.3 SDK solves some issues that contribute to a smoother development experience. These are some of the issues solved in this version: Issue Summary VWG-3493 - Theme registration and selection was changed. The developer can select one theme or none. An error provider was added to indicate theme rows with errors. These rows will be saved and can be selected as the current theme. VWG-3484 - Silverlight theme registration bug fixed. VWG-3483 - TextBox Max length property bug fixed. Now you can edit part of the text by selecting it after it reached the max length size. VWG-3402 - RibbonBar - DropDownBox showing a js alert popup with the menu item name fixed. VWG-3385 - Control drag image was added to all the themes. VWG-3383 - WGLables.GetLocalizedMonthString null value protection on CurrentUICulture added. VWG-3389 - ASP.NET Control Wrapper menu item missing problem fixed. VWG-3481 - DataGridViewComboBoxColumn populates items when it is data binded problem fix. VWG-3464 - Accessing the scalable service was separated to a different method. VWG-3359 - DataGridView population problem on form load fixed. VWG-3460 - DataGridView vertical scrollbar where shown even if not required. VWG-3463 - Web_OnClick.objSource was not cleaned after click is being raised. VWG-3378 - Form Box result was null even when value added. VWG-3367 - FormBox Form property was not saved in Viewstate. VWG-3348 - SearchTextBox Text property was not shown when set by code. VWG-3366 - FormBox Form property can now handel string.empty. VWG-3327 - Crystal report after wrapping had no properties in design time. VWG-3466 - Double click and click events on datagridview fixed. The new SDK is available for Download. http://www.visualwebgui.com/tabid/110/default.aspx

  posted by gizmox 406 days ago

• Visual WebGui 6.2.2 released

  The 6.2.2 release provides compatibility to MS Silverlight RC0/RTW, and now supports development & deployment of web applications with the latest Silverlight technology. As stated before, Microsoft has released Silverlight 2 with weak backwards compatibility to previous Silverlight versions, which resulted in some presentation issues with the Silverlight layer that are now solved. The new release also includes the Visual WebGui WinForms-like designer allowing simple and cost-effective Web development, and the new ASP.NET Control wrapper wizard introduced earlier this month. Version 6.2.2 provides further stabilization to 6.2 which brought new standards in developer experience. for more information please read the official announcement. Visual WebGui 6.2.2 is available for download now. https://sourceforge.net/projects/visualwebgui/

  posted by gizmox 434 days ago

• New ASP.NET Control Wrapper released

  Gizmox announces Visual WebGui new ASP.NET wizard control wrapper incorporated into their latest Web development SDK 6.2.1 version. The new control wrapper enables easy and straightforward wrapping of ASP.NET controls such as those of Infragistics, Devexpress, Telerik and others. The wizard wrapper lets web developers an opportunity to enrich Visual WebGui environment. The ASP.NET Wrapper wizard added to Visual WebGui infrastructure. This wizard enhances Visual WebGui abilities and allow AJAX Web developers to use any available ASP.NET thirdparty control and add it to Visual WebGui applications as an out-of-the-box control. The new ASP.NET wrapping wizard makes Visual WebGui applications even richer than before. http://www.visualwebgui.com/Commercial/Home/Products/ServersideExtensions/ASPNETControlWrapper/tabid/497/Default.aspx

  posted by gizmox 451 days ago

• Making VWG fully Compatibile with Silverlight RCO & FireFox

  The Visual WebGui team is currently working on 2 major compatibility issues: 1. Making Visual WebGui Silverlight presentation layer work correctly with Silverlight version RC0. In version RC0 Microsoft has changed major structure of the object model and properties naming dramatically (for the last time according to what was promised to us) and we are investing allot of effort to close the gap as fast as possible. A responsible estimation would be that within one of the next stabilization versions of 6.2 (6.2.x) a full support for RC0 will be available in the next few weeks. The currently available online demos/downloads will function currently only with Silverlight 2 beta 2. 2. Making Visual WebGui DHTML presentation layer work well with Fire Fox 3.0 (the latest FF Version) Version 6.3 will come out with general support for FF 3.0, the Visual WebGui team will work hard to make this possible by the end of 2008. Please help us stabilize FF 3.0 by reporting us of any issues you find. We deeply apologies for any inconvenience you experienced! http://www.visualwebgui.com

  posted by gizmox 456 days ago

• Gizmox Dares Hackers to Break Into Visual WebGui

  The contest bets $10,000 that no one can hack their Empty Client Platform, Visual WebGui Tel Aviv, Israel November 3, 2008 Gizmox, http://www.visualwebgui.com the developer of Visual WebGui open source platform, today announced a contest, sponsored by the Company, which will pay $10,000 to anyone who can hack into its Visual WebGui Platform. The Contest will take the shape of an investigation into the identity of a secret agent. The goal of the contest is to uncover the true identity of their secret agent, code named OWL. The Contest will feature a flash movie presented within the Visual WebGui application that will contain the data necessary to uncovering the identity of the OWL. Participants will be required to provide a reproducible pathway into the Visual WebGui Pipeline (without having to penetrate any non Visual WebGui Peripherals) in order to claim the prize. The contest will begin on November 3rd and end January 30th, Participants must register to receive login information and contest details. This is the location of the Security Challenge: http://www.visualwebgui.com/live/Security_Challenge "We believe that our proprietary "Empty Client" portal is the most secure environment on the market and we are willing to put our money where our mouth is," said Navot Peled, CEO of Gizmox. "We don't make statements that our program is "unhackable" lightly. We have given this challenge to many people in the field and no one has been able to penetrate it., and we are sure that no one can!" Gizmox is the Company that released Visual WebGui to the public in early 2008, and is poised to create a new standard in cloud computing. Since its release there have been over 250,000 downloads of its DHTML version. Visual WebGui (VWG) is a new 'Web like Desktop' platform that offers open source rapid application development (RAD) framework for Line of Business AJAX & Silverlight applications atop the platform. VWG cuts down development time (proven up to 90%), without compromising on extensibility, scalability, performance, security or complexity. About Gizmox Gizmox, the developer of Visual WebGui open source platform and a member of Microsoft's Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) program was founded in July 2007. Gizmox enables web like desktop platfortms; its DHTML SDK has been downloaded by over 250,000 people with more than 23,000 registered users. More than 20,000 VWG applications have been built, and are in production at enterprises such as SAP, Israel Aerospace Industry, Israeli leading Leumi Bank, Trysis, NetworkD, Net Size, American File Net, Phoenix insurance company, Blue Phoenix and many more. The company is funded by Venture Capital and private investors. Its active chairman of the board is Professor Arie Scope founder of Microsoft's Israel subsidiary, and its former General Manager and Chairman for 16 years. All brand or product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

  posted by gizmox 464 days ago