Web/Cloud Applications Development Platform

"IFN had chosen WebGui after a profound testing process..."

host — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 07:21:00 GMT

In the beginning of 2005 IFN started developing the next generation of its products, this time focusing on web oriented solutions as all the market did. It started to research and look for the right technology to adopt. IFN knew what it was looking for and what it wanted to achieve but was searching the best way to get there. IFN knew that it's customers would not accept anything but a client/server functionality based on web technology. That’s when IFN came upon WebGui which is a web application framework that enabled them to develop application in client/server development concepts.

SAP Labs Mr. SAAR: " VWG is the best AJAX framework"

host — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 07:45:00 GMT

My team and I started with plain asp.net, and then we tried the Microsoft .NET Ajax framework (back when it was called Atlas). We have also tried other open source AJAX frameworks and some commercial solutions. None of them answered our needs

NetworkD: 100-400% improvement in speed

host — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:34:00 GMT

Mark Reed, NetworkD’s Group Development Lead reveals “Once we went to VWG we saw anywhere from 100%-400%+ improvement in speed those issues that took 15 seconds went down to 2-3 seconds. I stumbled upon VWG and installed it and after 1 hour I was convinced that we needed to port the entire project over and that any current time lose would be made up down the road with ease of maintainability…”

Porting desktop Heat into web

host — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:21:00 GMT

The biggest impact has been the speed of development. We are able to create more professional looking products with less time and effort then before and saved us from having to hire additional staff. The fact that we could integrate other tools that we bought such as Data Dynamics saved us a lot of time as well ...

Porting WinForms app. to VWG

host — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:31:00 GMT

After 3 days I had completed most of the application, without giving any thought to the Application and Session objects and all that other Web programming stuff.

Porting the hours reporting system to web

host — Wed, 28 May 2008 06:47:00 GMT

In the past 9 years IFN solutions has been using an internally developed VB 6.0 + SQL Server based application

to manage the working hours of its employees. One very crucial disadvantage of the system was that it could not enable remote reporting of a large number of external employees.

VWG Outlook-like Webmail project

host — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:04:00 GMT

Gizmox created an Outlook-like email management web application with desktop responsiveness & productivity in one month and only one developer.

NetworkD converting iControl to VWG

roy.goffer — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:41:00 GMT

Following the successful conversion of its Service & Support system to the web with Visual WebGui, NetworkD chooses to improve the responsiveness of its web-based Windows password reset tool using Visual WebGui.

AutoMagic developing a Runtime form designer

roy.goffer — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:14:00 GMT

"Visual WebGui allowed the creation of AutoMagic in the fraction of the time… the application's performance …is nothing but astounding." With Visual WebGui, AutoMagic Runtime Form Designer offers end users and customers an eloquent way of customizing forms in run time using drag & drop and without redeploying.

Chillisoft delivered on time & budget with Visual WebGui as an OEM

roy.goffer — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:24:00 GMT

Customer's only criticism after Chillisoft delivered on time & budget with Visual WebGui as an OEM was: “This is really going to make the rest of our application look bad….”

The 3rd generation solution from IFN uses VWG as its platform

roy.goffer — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:55:00 GMT

IFN VP Sales and Marketing: “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”

e-grou offers a simple yet powerful document management solution with VWG

roy.goffer — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:13:00 GMT

"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." e-grou Rui Oliveira

NetworkD ports its Service & Support system to the Web

roy.goffer — Sun, 04 May 2008 09:10:00 GMT

NetworkD, a leading management software provider web-enables its Service & Support system with Visual WebGui, allowing interactive & responsive analyst access from web-browsers.

Insurance Document Management System developed in both desktop & web modes

roy.goffer — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:47:00 GMT

"The WinForms-like development mode allowed developing the user interface for the application much faster than using any other web-based approach." ZB Consulting and KdM Software Bogdan Zamfir

CIMCO Designs a flexible CMMS and puts it on the web

roy.goffer — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 07:39:00 GMT

"Our programmers were experienced in VB with little web experience. By selecting VWG we got the latest .Net technology for Web applications, allowing fast, modern looking software to be designed very rapidly."

UK’s largest independent care provider builds its new web based system with Visual WebGui

roy.goffer — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 08:49:00 GMT

"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."

Centralized database web application with GIS components developed for the Lower Saxson Chamber of Agriculture

roy.goffer — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:13:00 GMT

"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."

Informatec saves over 50% developing its telephony Call Account Management System with Visual WebGui

roy.goffer — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:23:00 GMT

"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"

Visual WebGui saves a multi-lingual search engine 2 years and $250k

roy.goffer — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:12:00 GMT

"Visual WebGui came to the rescue and allowed to create interfaces that provided the best of the asp.net experience and the best of the WinForms experience. It was the only viable alternative I had to put this website into production." John Graffio

Help Desk Ticketing System completed in only 8 months with 1 developer

roy.goffer — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:31:00 GMT

“There is no other software platform on the market today that can give traditional desktop application developers the ability to transition that knowledge and experience directly to a web development environment – providing an unprecedented development experience.”

Web enabling Data Warehouse Solution made possible with Visual WebGui

roy.goffer — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:30:00 GMT

"Creating such a feature-rich internet application in this very short time would have been impossible without Visual WebGui."

A Linux (Mono) Web based OS Deployment tool completed in just 2 weeks

roy.goffer — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:43:00 GMT

"Because of the easy graphical development environment and the integration into Visual Studio we were able to roll out the product within 2 weeks."

Debt Collection Management System Web UI developed in less than a month

roy.goffer — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:00:00 GMT

Torq Software chose Visual WebGui and soon enough discovered how easy it was to start developing Visual WebGui screens. "Not having to learn ASP.NET in its entirety meant that we could leverage our existing knowledge for most part to produce an effective application".

Trading Desk application's UI completed in a couple of weeks

roy.goffer — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 06:44:00 GMT

"Developing an application with Visual WebGui is a charm. UI design is done in a snap and coding is as easy as building a Windows application. Had we done it in .NET it would have been completed with less usability and in more time."

A Telemedicine Second Opinion application developed on Web with 1 developer in 1 month

roy.goffer — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:27:00 GMT

"With Visual WebGui we were able to build an agile and secure web user interface that meets the requirements of our customer in terms of functionality and time-to-market Interface"

Desktop Spreadsheet applications upgraded to user-friendly Web UI with minimal work

roy.goffer — Sun, 03 May 2009 06:37:00 GMT

"For many years we looked at ASP.NET and other web technologies, but none of them allowed us the flexibility, speed of development and ease of maintenance that we could deliver with a desktop application. Visual WebGui changed that."

"...WorksLink is a Visual WebGui based system employed to simplify the information flow between functional silos within and between units in several construction companies working as a joint venture to deliver the construction of an underground diamond mine in remote North West Australia."

"...WorksLink team took the previous .NET WinForms framework and with minimal changes brought it across to Visual WebGui with the VWG toolset."

"...Visual WebGui enabled WorksLink to take the existing .NET WinForms framework and with minimal architectural change adapt it to run over the web and replace the unwieldy spreadsheets with accessible, user friendly interface over the web. Basing on Visual WebGui, WorksLink now provides the ability for team members around the country to start using the software by typing a URL into a browser without the need to install any software on the client."

$100,000 saved on developing new Learning Application for franchises

roy.goffer — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:53:00 GMT

"Visual WebGui is second to none when it comes to deployment… the development experience is fast and enjoyable compared to the WYSINWYG (What you see is NOT what you get) in .aspx pages"

"...As a result, it was decided to develop an enhanced solution for those 70+ franchisees which would provide more efficient processes, quicker response time and more accurate reporting. The application must be web based, allow multi-user access and at the same time fast and secure."

"...Visual WebGui allowed the team members which were Windows developers to jump right in with almost no learning curve due to a visual drag & drop designer that is similar to WinForms."

"...As a result, developing the new HUB web application with Visual WebGui saved more than $100,000 while allowing centers to run more efficiently with the much improved user interface that the customer experiences."

Manufacturing activity management system developed in 4 months

roy.goffer — Wed, 13 May 2009 06:49:00 GMT

"Visual WebGui makes the delivery of sophisticated applications about as simple as it could be… We delivered this application with 1.25 developers part time over 4 months, including the SQL database design"

1 programmer internally developed in 1 year a web based EDP for a Hospital

host — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:25:00 GMT

"A single programmer is capable of creating a rich web application without the need of having any experience in HTML, ASP, JavaScript or AJAX."

50% saving on creating a Web based Logistics system with Mobile Device integration

roy.goffer — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:58:00 GMT

"Had we followed regular ASP.NET development instead the time would have been at least doubled… Visual WebGui the perfect tool for developing & deploying Web Enterprise applications," Enrico Pavesi CTO of Nexus Informatica

"...WCube Logistic was created with the objective of streamlining the organization and control of all logistical activities of the warehouse through the use of radio terminals connected interactively to the system of departmental logistics."

"...Nexus Informatica looked to port its previous desktop logistics platform to web technology (old platform was Delphi based) The company needed to develop a logistics system that is Web based and can integrate with Mobile Devices for improved accessibility and mobility."

"...Using Visual WebGui allows Nexus Informatica to port their logistics system to web technology while leveraging the development team's existing skills by providing a visual development experience that is intuitive and easy to understand for a WinForms programmer."

A WinForms based CRM extended to the Web using Visual WebGui

roy.goffer — Wed, 27 May 2009 06:15:00 GMT

"What's great about Visual WebGui is that a core-developer doesn’t have to code in HTML, Ajax or JavaScript; everything is done by the VWG framework itself" Ernstjan Freriks

"...The Visual WebGui based application was built for the Roof Vaults department (of the customer). The application enables dealers and roof vault sellers to maintain customer information, the sale process and the configuration of the roof vault."

"...Choosing Visual WebGui resulted in significant savings for CRMCompany in this project. "Because we didn’t have to write an HTML output layer and custom JavaScript code to interact with data on the server we have experienced major savings."

"..."Visual WebGui is a perfect solution for any developer with some WinForms knowledge not wanting or willing to write JavaScript/CSS/Ajax/XML/XSLT code. Developing Web-applications with conventional tools is much more time consuming than using Visual WebGui and I also liked the fact that we can write our own controls in the framework," said Ernstjan Freriks"

Data input Web application solution for the Music Industry

roy.goffer — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:32:00 GMT

"Thanks to Visual WebGui Monsta allows song writers to upload their catalog of songs and get them instantly reviewed by publishers in a responsive easily to use web based application environment." Jamie Simonsen

"...Monsta Entertainment knew exactly what it needed to do, create a unique online plugging/pitching forum whereby song writers could upload their catalog of songs so that A&Rs, Film & TV, Advertisers, Record Labels and Publishers worldwide could instantly review writers' songs in a responsive easily to use web based application environment."

"...Monsta Entertainment R&D team looked for a technology that would allow it to implement the requirements and therefore to create an online forum that meets demand with request. The team evaluated several DHTML solutions and chose Visual WebGui Rich Internet Applications Platform."

"...In addition to the user-friendly UI, Visual WebGui allowed Monsta to provide end users with a responsive web based application that performs as if it was desktop based while no specific installations are needed on the client. This allows end users to quickly manage their files or search for what they are looking to watch & listen to."

MS Access tool replaced by a web based Job Maintenance Application in 2 weeks

roy.goffer — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:23:00 GMT

"The way Visual WebGui handles the Ajax plumbing behind the scenes produces great performance results… The familiarity of the controls combined with the performance of lightweight Ajax calls make Visual WebGui truly great!"

"...Culpepper needed an internal maintenance application to update job titles, descriptions, etc. that would also allow to maintain the hierarchy of those jobs."

"...By choosing Visual WebGui the development of this application was made much easier. "With many third-party controls/frameworks there is a steep learning curve in figuring out how to program them. It is obvious to me that great care was taken to try to make Visual WebGui controls look, behave, and program very similar to their Windows Forms counterparts."

"...The initial release took about 2 weeks to develop rather than the 4-6 weeks... The idea that your framework handles ALL of the Ajax plumbing behind the scenes where I don’t even have to see it is amazing. This alone saved me at least 1-2 weeks of JavaScript coding."

HealthRx Corporation ensures biosafety at top biomedical institutions

roy.goffer — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:45:00 GMT

"Visual WebGui allowed us to spend more time on providing a solution to our customer’s needs and less time on the technical details of web application development.”

"...HealthRx Corporation provides software solutions for healthcare, biomedical research, biosafety, and complex patient management. Notable HealthRx customers include the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)."

"...When HealthRx decided to create its first web-based application, the development team spent thousands of dollars on a variety of technologies while searching for a tool to help building on the experience of the rich-client product. It became clear that there was a significant difference between web sites and web applications, and that Visual WebGui was in a class by itself in allowing leveraging of virtually the entire PHMIS GUI and all of the business and data layers."

"..."Visual WebGui allowed us to spend more time on providing a solution to our customer’s needs and less time on the arcane technical details of web development,” said J. Patrick Vandersluis, Ph.D., HealthRx’s CEO"

CRM on the Web with WinForms based Visual WebGui

roy.goffer — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:00:00 GMT

Thanks to Visual WebGui the product is a simple, easy to use and efficient application that performs exceptionally well over the web while accessible on multiple platforms and browsers.

"...The customer is a so called umbrella organization with many independent companies. This organization has a CRM solution in which customer data is maintained from a centralized database. Since the CRM solution is a Windows application and the users which are employees of the independent companies have to maintain their customer data, there was a need for multi-site customers to keep data that would be on this central database."

"...Visual WebGui was chosen because it fulfills all the major requirements. Many web development tools where looked at, but none of the tools had the flexibility, development simplicity and the ease of maintenance that Visual WebGui offers. The Visual WebGui platform also offers a smooth transition with no learning curve for Windows application developers since it uses the same methodologies."

"...Visual WebGui makes it also possible to create a rich user interface for both the web and desktop environments. It just takes a little time to convert a WinForm application into a web application which allows to create several environments without spending much time or effort."

Centralized database application developed on the web for German State Office

roy.goffer — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:56:00 GMT

"The fast initialization of the generated web pages of the Visual WebGui application creates a desktop-like feeling while working in a web browser"

"...The customer (State Office for Consumer Protection and Agriculture in Brandenburg/Germany) wants to integrate different local database applications into a centralized browser-based intranet application. A server based GIS link is to be delivered at a later stage."

"...The team chose Visual WebGui as the platform for the new solution because it allowed them to create the GUI of the application within a short period of time and with very friendly controls to the end user within a web environment. Eventually, the time to market period is significantly shorter compared to a classic ASP.NET approach."

"...Using Visual WebGui lead to the responsive and easy-to-use design of the user interface supported a quick and efficient way of developing the GUI for both the prototypes and the completed application. "The fast initialization of the generated web pages of the Visual WebGui application creates a desktop-like feeling while working in a web browser," said Martin Krausmann"

A field agent's law enforcement application enabled for web

roy.goffer — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:32:00 GMT

"With Visual WebGui the application runs with excellent performance while under even the tightest of bandwidth constraints… and provides secure by design applications which is extremely important when connecting via cell phone modems."

"...The SES Investigator application is a tool developed to allow law enforcement investigators to store case information in a central repository that is accessible and shared with other investigators in the task force."

"...The main reason for this is that investigators use cell phone modems to connect the tablet PCs to the Internet. So bandwidth was very limited, especially when they are in an area with poor signal strengths."

"...Visual WebGui was chosen to develop the third version. After the first two versions of the SES Investigator Internet application that used standard ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX did not provide good enough performance over the web, the team looked for a new technology."

A web-based application simplifying software distribution within an Altiris environment developed

roy.goffer — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:16:00 GMT

"Only several days of development were needed for the creation of the application, compared to some weeks which would have been required with other solutions. Moreover, the code maintenance is very convenient so that additional savings are already obvious," Thilo Ruhland

A new Social Networking blogging concept created & executed by 1 person and $500 cost

roy.goffer — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:27:00 GMT

Prior to upgrading the site to Visual WebGui the user experience was lacking, including repeating unnecessary page refreshes. "With VWG I was able to create a fully ajax’ed site quickly without worrying about the typical issues," John Ruf

Visual WebGui rescues Talex in web enabling its HelpDesk system frontend

roy.goffer — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:45:00 GMT

“Visual WebGui turned out to be a magic stick to heal most of our ASP.NET problems and concerns… We want to be rich, so use VWG and give us 10% of the money you will save” Marcin Pytel, Project Manager

Verismic increases Green IT with its Visual WebGui based PC Power Management solution

roy.goffer — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:31:00 GMT

"Visual WebGui provides the best balance between development simplicity and the ability to create rich, intuitive UIs… and saving up to 90% on bandwidth and 50% on CPU usage… on top of savings of $75 per PC," Mark McGinn, Managing Director of Verismic Software

Visual WebGui enables a secured online document management solution from e-grou

roy.goffer — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:54:00 GMT

"Choosing VWG reduced significantly the development effort and skills required to create a windows-like web user interface.” José Santos

Energy Monitoring Firm Saves Money, Scales Business with Hosted Computing Platform

roy.goffer — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:00:00 GMT

"With Windows Azure you can quickly achieve what, a year ago, would have taken more people, more money, and a lot more time. It’s going to enable applications of types we’ve never seen before." Tom Naylor, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Advanced Telemetry

A sole developer was able to build a tour costing system's web UI using existing VB6 skills

roy.goffer — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:28:00 GMT

"The ease of designing a web page in Visual WebGui is unmatched to any other web solution I have evaluated… Visual WebGui was easy to get acquainted and got me started with building an architectural plan within few working days"

Lifestyle China Database system allows desktop UI & functionality on the Web

roy.goffer — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:09:00 GMT

"after certain tests and tries, we believed that Visual WebGui was the tool we dreamed about for developing such data dense Web-based solutions… The proven unhackable security and the ease of deployment and update totally relieve our worries and saved us tremendous labor and budget"

A HR web based system delivered to one of Switzerland’s leading Telecom providers with a 25% budget saving

roy.goffer — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:25:00 GMT

"Our customers were astounded how fast we could present them with the first prototype of their application… We considered using ASP.NET Ajax but in the end decided that the ease of UI development was a major reason for choosing Visual WebGui"

Independent Software Vendor cuts development budget for internal timecard application by 66%

roy.goffer — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:59:00 GMT

"by using Visual WebGui …DCSoft was able to lower the cost to be what was expected of WinForms development, not ASP.NET development!... the advantage of using Visual WebGui is easily seen by what skills were not required: ASP.NET directives, HTML, DHTML, CSS, and AJAX concepts," David Ching, Chief Applications Engineer and Microsoft MVP