Visual WebGui Cutting-edge 6.4 Preview 1 released
roy.goffer posted on May 26, 2009 :: 1296 Views
Visual WebGui 6.4 Preview 1 is available to download!
The 6.4 Preview allows to experience the revolutionary web design tool providing ease of designing DHTML or Silverlight UI with no HTML, CSS or XAML coding, while using your design software of choice such as Photoshop and Expression Blend. This cutting-edge Point & Click Web Design Tool provides, for the first time, a complete coding-free cycle for the creation of complex, enterprise-grade web applications. 6.4 also allows to fully customize application themes using the new designer and by downloading and sharing complete VWG Themes.
Go to the new Web Design Tools page...
“Microsoft is pleased to work with Visual WebGui to deliver the best computing experience to our customers,” said Joe Marini, Director, Platform & Tools Ecosystem at Microsoft Corp. “The newly added features in Visual WebGui 6.4 preview offer developers a flexible way to brand and differentiate their UIs for internal and customer-facing applications.”
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The 6.4 Preview version is offered for free and available for evaluation in either Express Studio or Professional Studio. In the future the new design tools will be offered in the Express edition for free, under LGPL license, and in the Professional Studio version.
6.4 also presents new scalability extensions for redundancy and mulit-user SaaS/Cloud Computing level with performance enhancement and memory optimization.
This is the change log for 6.4 Preview 1
Features
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1. New Control & Theme Designer - presents a ground breaking simple, intuitive developer/designer interface to creating advanced, customized, and creative customer-facing Web user interfaces (UIs) without any need to code in HTML and CSS.
2. Scalability Server Extension - Performance enhancement by adding new smart serialization model.
- Memory optimization to minimize the serialization model.
VWG-3884 - Support for hierarchical document outline added.
VWG-3891 - Support for SelectedImageIndex and SelectedImageKey in TreeView and TreeViewNode controls Added.
VWG-3892 - Support for StateImageIndex and StateImageKey in TreeView and TreeViewNode controls Added.
VWG-3692 - ColorDialog FullOpen and AllowFullOpen properties Implemented.
VWG-3763 - WinForms compatible mode which will ignore margin in panel / form docking added.
VWG-2589 - the ListView's ColumnWidthChanged event implemented.
VWG-2133 - Form MinimumSize and MaximumSize Properties implement.
VWG-3957 - Support MenuItem shortcut added.
Read the entire Change log...