Visual Web GUI can help change the web development world and make it more usable, reachable and easier than ever…"
Roy Oshorov
MS MVP
The best AJAX Framework out there... Basically, with Visual WebGui, you develop your web applications as if you are developing a Win Form based application. Then you compile your project and magic, you get a web page with an amazing rich look and feel. Of course, since it’s all AJAX there are no refreshes, no postbacks, and it’s very fast.”
Asaf Saar
SAP Project Manager
Visual WebGui is intriguing. It's ridiculous how productive you can be with a tool like this compared to building an ASPX page. But somehow it feels like cheating..."
Rick then performed a stress testing to Visual WebGui's scalability and commented on Nov 5, 2007: "well it's interesting. I hooked up Web Application Stress Tool to it and ran through my app and let it rip and surprisingly the throughput is like any other ASP.NET application in terms of number of requests. Now VWG will generate many more requests than your average postback style or even AJAX application, but still if the performance of that throughput with small requests is what I saw in these tests it looks like it should easily scale to at least the threadpool size of users (ie. 100 or so). FWIW, the throughput I saw was 185 req/second which is roughly what I see on a typical simple ASP.NET application. This is with 20 clients and a stress multiplier of 10 with no request limits..."
"I think the biggest issues that I see with VWG are not the scalability but a number of visual inconsistencies. The way textboxes work for example (tabbing around a form for example) is a bit odd, the way lists and anything scrollable look is a little weird etc. - a bunch of small little things that add up. But as I mentioned it's come a long way from the last time I checked which is about a half a year ago. I suspect with the way this product is evolving this is going to improve and offer a solution to a very specialized scenario."
Rick Strahl
MS MVP
Have you seen this? Its not just another AJAX Framework, it is the end all and be all of AJAX Frameworks including full design time support. This stuff is just amazing. Browse through the demo. It even comes with a decent licensing model. Things are going to start changing around here..."
Rob Chartier
MS MVP
The demonstrations and screencasts I have seen on Visual WebGui are pretty intriguing. Visual WebGui's tagline is “bringing AJAX and Silverlight to enterprises”. It looks to be bringing drag-and-drop desktop development to web applications, and apparently the performance is pretty awesome... If you are looking to develop AJAX & Silverlight Applications in a very productive manner, I recommend checking out Visual WebGui to see if it can make you more productive."
David Hayden
MS MVP
Using form visual inheritance, we quickly developed about 50 end-user forms in 2-3 months with 3 developers while the original estimation using traditional ASP.NET was over 6 months. Visual WebGui is an amazing time and budget saver"
Sergio Gomes
GTC Informatec
By using Visual WebGui we saved a significant amount of development time… Turning to Visual WebGui made it possible to create a rich user interface for both the web and desktop environments."
Martin Krausmann
ARC-GREENLAB GmbH
Using the WebGui approach meant that in spite of our small team we could quickly create an industry leading solution in house according to the requirements which resulted in significant cost savings.
...WebGui provides a flexible toolset that can be easily extended; hence it was relatively easy to convert the existing MS Access client monies application to a professional web based one that was robust, secure and easy to use. In fact we learnt C# at the same time!"
Ewan Walker
Craegmoor Healthcare
We never thought we could develop rich web applications that are so reliable, so fast and so easy to use… VWG is best of the Web and best of WinForms all in one package"
Mike Bennett
Digital Partners
In a remarkably short time in comparison to any estimation of web development of such complex UI scenarios, we fully achieved the huge amount of functionality... “With Visual WebGui we could actually concentrate on added business values of the system without worrying that the web platform will not be able to hold it and almost completely ignore any web implementation complexities.”
Eddy Fishman
IFN
iNferno showed us that we can create the look of a win application in VWG but iControl proved to us that we can also get a real web UI look and feel just as easy but without the hassle of dealing with HTML and CSS”
Mark Reed
NetworkD
The project we developed for our customer using WebGui and the Habanero Framework was a fantastic success with the project being delivered on time and budget. The customer was ecstatic – the only criticism and concerns raised were of the following variety: This is really going to make the rest of our application look bad. And Do you know how much pressure we are going to get to get the rest of the application to look the same?”
Peter Wiles
Chillisoft Habanero
The WinForms-like development mode allowed developing the user interface for the application much faster than using any other web-based approach."
Bogdan Zamfir
ZB Consulting
"Visual WebGui came to the rescue and allowed us to create interfaces that provided the best of the asp.net experience and the best of the WinForms experience. Being able to display mixed content and control is something I have never expected to find in a product as technically accessible as Visual WebGui."
""If this product did not exist, I would not be where I am today in terms of development and stage of the project… VWG has allowed me to come to market anywhere from 24-30 months ahead of anything I could have remotely dreamed of."
John Graffio
FindItByMe
Choosing VWG reduced largely the time of development and gave us an easy way to create an interface similar to windows. Our developers almost forgot they were developing a web application."
Rui Oliveira
e-grou
Presenting DriveU UI (Visual WebGui is embedded) is one of my favorite parts; you can see the looks on the audience faces, they are very impressed with the richness and responsiveness of the web UI”
Yasmin Marom
IFN Marketing
It is used to create ASP.NET web applications with a very AJAX like experience - without the AJAX programming hassle. It may be worth it to you to give it a try. Though it's little rough around the edges at this point, this product can be used today to produce web applications from .NET Windows Forms projects. And - the developer is rapidly improving the product each month. It's easy to get started and it to produce useful web applications. I've been playing around with it for about a week and have already created two small web applications for IT management.”
Mike McIntyre
First, this product is the best thing since sliced bread. It seems to address every pain point we'd had over the years...we can actaully enjoy developing again. So, obviously I'm eager to take it for a test spin... I still can't believe how great of a product this is!! All of the multi-billion dollars assets of microsoft couldn't figure this out...and you guys did! You guys might change the web more than Silverlight + ASP.NET combinded.”
Mike Best
The Best AJAX Framework?…Visual WebGui hopes to resolve some of the issues currently plaguing most AJAX implementations today."
Tech Notes
Visual Web GUI is a great idea! Many many compliments! You are the number one! I was just wondering why Microsoft didn't do that."
Massimo Conti
First, I am in awe of VWG. It is so much better than ASP.NET or PHP. Before I discovered VWG, I'd only dabbled a very little in web programming. Everything was so difficult, compared to WinForms programming. VWG is going to make the transition to web programming so much easier!"
David Leland
I must say i am very impressed with visual webgui ! I see lot's of potential for the web development i am planning to do."
Reinier
I am quite impressed with the product. It has completely simplified the development of web applications”
Joe MacDonald
We feel that Visual WebGui is fantastic. Actually it is the best thing I have ever personally used to develop websites that really need to be applications…”
Rick Fleming
Convergence-Research
After researching Ajax… I came across your web site and it seems to be exactly what we are looking for…”
Garry Lowther
TriSys Business Software
this is really neat... This could be HUGH! …”
Jon Elster
Elster
I have been looking for a product like this for a long time … it looks like a dream come true".
Tolga Erdogus
Your product looks pretty cool. Fascinating actually!..."
Mitch Milam
Infinite-X Technologies
First let me say that I looked at the demo for Visual Web Gui and I’m very impressed. I’m defiantly going to do some more looking into it…".
Geoff Van Brunt
DST Consulting Engineers
My experience of Web Gui so far have been good – very rapid development time. The main advantage I find over ASP.NET is no messing with the HTML for layout etc. Thing like Dock, and Anchor save massive amounts of time for someone like me (a non web designer), who simply wants to get the functionality up and running without fiddling round with CSS etc. Also the speed of the updates is great – AJAX on steroids! Obviously the other major bonus is the event/lifecycle is just like a win form (with a few exceptions) which is great. Getting first hand support has also been a major bonus... Having good support from someone very knowledgeable is great. Anyway – my overall impressions are very good... I think this promises to be a great platform for application development!"
Dhugal Leverett
TriSys Business Software
I'm the procurement specialist here at CSG assigned to work with you on this evaluation…"
Trudy L. Cooper
CSG Systems
was quite impressed by the video demo's…
J-J van der Meer
SNS Bank
WebGUI is the most important technology (IT IS a technology, as AJAX is another technology) i've personally seen the last 5-6 years. I use Visual Studio since 1995. Upgrading from VB6 to VS2002, was a major step. Upgrading from 2002 to 2003 or 2005 was not a major change.I mean, ASP.NET did not change so much. Web programming using WinForms is soemthing i couldn't expect in my wildest dreams."
Forum post
I just want to say what an amazing product this is! Thank you so much for creating it!"
Forum post
first of all thanks for your work on VWG. It is really one of the greatest enhancements I´ve ever seen for web development with VS.Net."
Forum post
What an incredible library! I was searching the web for something of this nature, and I came across your WebGUI. I've been discussing the merging of win and web form applications for some time with my colleges. This is exactly what the doctor ordered! Wow!"
Blog comment
I like the idea which treats Web development as Desktop development. It is alwasy a pain for me to create HTML layout, add CSS style manually and debug Javascript. This framework eases the pain above for windows developer like me."
Alex and JoJo WE blog