While web development environments such as ASP.NET and JSP have made huge strides in creating a rich environment for developing web applications, they have always targeted a very wide range of applications from content rich sites to OWA like applications.

Visual WebGui basically leverages the WinForms object model giving the developer a new development experience developing rich internet applications like outlook web access. This object model by say covers 90% of what you need in order to create an outlook web access application. So how do we bridge the WinForms object model and web development? Through the concept of Gateways.