Visual WebGui Available

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October 30, 2009

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Visual WebGui Available

Visual WebGui introduces a different approach to AJAXfront-ends. While the trend is toward empowering the client (browser) with morecapabilities, enabling direct consumption of services by client-side objectsand distributing processing between the client and the server, WebGui adoptsthe server-based computing approach whereby service consumption and processingis handled on the server and human interaction is handled on the client. Thismodel provides intrinsic benefits for enterprise applications because itprovides additional measures of security and control that are not available onbrowser-based solutions. This approach provides benefits by enablingapplication logic (usually entailing both business and presentation logic) to behandled within one stateful, object-oriented environment developed in a high-levelOOP language like C#, VB.NET, or Java (rather than a mix between JavaScript anda server-based language).

 Using a homogenousplatform provides developers with immeasurable productivity benefits andenables developers to make better use of existing assets, knowledge, andexperience rather than requiring the steep learning curve of AJAX.Visual WebGui provides server-side controls that behave like existing desktop(WinForms) application controls, both in design time and in run time. Thesecontrols manifest themselves as AJAXcontrols on the browser in run time and look like their desktop counterparts.The architecture of the system is in no way limited to representing these basecontrols in their current desktop look and feel because it makes use oftemplates that render the different controls. Visual WebGui s initial offeringcontains the popular Microsoft controls that are a basic part of any Windows-basedapplication. These controls provide a huge productivity benefit to Webdevelopers who lag behind their desktop brethren, while supporting the mostcommon needs of desktop application developers.

 In addition, thesystem is extensible. Visual WebGui s SDK enables extending the framework byadding additional controls, changing themes/flavors (skins), creating compositecontrols based on base controls, and creating gateway components. Visual WebGuiis an extension to ASP.NET, so it can interoperate with client-side and server-sidelegacy code. This means that Visual WebGui UIs can host and interoperate withexisting HTML/JavaScript client-only controls, or with embedded DOM objects likeApplets and ActiveX controls. Similarly, existing Web applications caninteroperate with WebGui components/forms/windows because they are, in essence,URLs like any other, sharing the same application and session context.

 

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