I've been able to find and run the Catalogue Demo - not only rich and informative, but it FLIES ! 

Performance seems almost desk top speed - and I only have a 1500KB ADSL line.

Am still interested in any comments on VB, please

Thank you

Hi,

The demos and screen cast where done in C# only because of my personal experience. While I had lots experience in VB5-6, I had been programming most of my life in C syntax from C++ (ATL/MFC) / Java to .NET C# so it is only natural that I would prefer to express my self in C# but that is definitely not a restriction in VWG. You can notice that we have created templates for VB.NET as well as C#. VWG at the basic is a library implemented in C# but as all .NET libraries that can be consumed from any language. So bottom line feel free to program in your favorite .NET language. The only restriction there currently is that we implemented VS templates only for VB.NET and C# but that can be easily extended to support other languages.

The slow time you have seen in the screen cast is due to working in debug mode with VS2005. You can notice in the VS status bar that when you are debugging your application VS is taking its time connecting to the executing thread to enable debugging. This time is no longer or shorter the developing normal ASP.NET applications. In runtime the performance are very nice and have been mentioned by many of our community developers.

In runtime you can define static resources mode which generates most of VWG resources as static files to be served by the IIS. This allows these resources to be cached and with that not generating them at runtime also reduces server usage. This is a very significant improvement as it reduces server CPU usage and server requests.

Thanks,
Guy