Visual WebGui Product Line

Rich Web UI (RIA) development. Legacy applications migration to the web. Existing ASP.NET applications upgrade. Familiar Office, Web 2.0 or Silverlight UI. Standard ASP.NET deployment

Visual WebGui offers a series of open source products atop its innovative rich internet applications (RIA) platform, which together enable the unique Visual WebGui desktop-like developer experience that leads to the simplest, most cost-effective development and deployment of rich data centric applications on the web.

Visual WebGui flattens AJAX / Silverlight Web UI development into a single layer, eliminating the complexities and avoiding the restrictions of developing and deploying rich internet applications (RIA) on the web. This achievement is possible due to Visual WebGui unique technology that results in desktop-like development patterns and behavior, supported by all Visual WebGui products.

Visual WebGui offers superior developer and user desktop-like web experiences with unmatched performance, responsiveness and security on the web. The Visual WebGui developer experience is further enhanced throughout the open source product line with its seamless integration into Visual Studio (Professional Studio) and the .NET Framework that lead to exceptional productivity in delivering RIAs.

Visual WebGui offers a variety of products and licensing options:
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Product	Price	Main Features	License	Deployment
Open Source Visual WebGui SDK	Free	Windows Forms Controls Toolkit 58 WinForms Controls ASP.NET Control Wrapping capabilities	LGPL	You may develop and sale combined work applications. Visual WebGui (VWG) library and code within the combined work is not warranted according to LGPL license terms. Visual WebGui library and code within the combined work must be licensed to your end user organization as open source LGPL. You must notify your combined work application end user organization that it contains Visual WebGui copyrighted open source library and code and you must maintain Visual WebGui copyright LGPL waiver. Read more about LGPL license
Open Source Silverlight SDK	Free	Silverlight Presentation Layer Windows Forms Controls Toolkit 58 WinForms Controls ASP.NET Control Wrapping capabilities Silverlight Packager	GPL	You may develop and sale combined work applications. Visual WebGui (VWG) library and code within the combined work is not warranted according to GPL license terms. The entire application must be licensed to your end user organization as open source GPL. You must notify your combined work application end user organization that it contains Visual WebGui Copyrighted open source library and code and you must maintain Visual WebGui copyright GPL waiver. Read more about GPL license
Open Source Express Studio	Free	Visual WebGui Designer Windows Forms Controls Toolkit 58 WinForms Controls ASP.NET Control Wrapping capabilities	LGPL	You may develop and sale combined work applications. Visual WebGui (VWG) library and code within the combined work is not warranted according to LGPL license terms. Visual WebGui library and code within the combined work must be licensed to your end user organizationas open source LGPL. You must notify your combined work application end user organization that it contains Vis ual WebGuiCopyrighted open sourcelibrary and code and you mustmaintain Visual WebGui copyright LGPL waiver. Read more about LGPL license
Commercial Open Source Professional Studio	2 options: Subscription or Perpetual	Visual Studio Integration Visual WebGui Designer ASP.NET Control Wrapper Wizard Windows Forms Controls Toolkit 58 WinForms Controls Multi Presentation Layers (including Silverlight) Ready Office extensions	Commercial	You may deploy unlimited number of end user organization specific applications developed with this Professiona Studio , royalties free, with No LGPL restrictions according to your license: Subscription or Perpetual
OEM / SaaS License Agreement	2 options: Commercial or Open source LGPL			You might need an OEM / SaaS license if you develop application with one of Visual WebGui commercial products and distribute it as a named application (branded or unbranded) to 5 end user organizations or more or your application serves as SaaS, 5 end user organizations or more. In this case you have two distribution options: Distribute as LGPL Open Source: In this case You must license your named application or application offered as SaaS, with an LGPL license for Visual WebGui combined code or library. This license requires a notice to your end user organization that the application contains LGPL open source VWG library or code and that VWG is the copyright owner. Also you are required to maintain the Visual WebGui LGPL Copyright UI waiver, I (from version 6.3.1 ). You may remove it only with commercial license. If you choose this license, you may deploy freely and there is no OEM / SaaS payable fee to Gizmox. Distribute Commercially with no LGPL restrictions: Pay lamp sum OEM / SaaS license fee per application for lifetime and license your product to your end user organization, as you choose with no restrictions. With this license you are free to remove the LGPL Visual WebGui waiver, and you do not have to notify your end user organization that you had embedded Visual WebGui in your application.
Extensions	For Professional Studio users: Some extension are bundled with Pro-Studio and are licensed with it.. For LGPL licensee: You may buy extensions, as addition to your LGPL application Contact sales if you wish to buy pre-released extensions
Cluster Server extension	Commercial			Offered at per CPU with pre-released discount price See Here

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The free, open source SDK allows free web development & deployment of Rich AJAX Internet Applications (RIA) with complete Windows Forms toolkit and ASP.NET integration.

Silverlight open source SDK allows to efficiently deliver enriched Silverlight Web UI experiences using proven technology by adding Silverlight design time and runtime capabilities to Visual WebGui.

The free version of the Visual WebGui studio allows absolutely free development & deployment of open source AJAX DHTML web UI with Visual Web Developer Express Edition.

The Professional Studio shortens web development time and cuts overall costs when delivering RIAs by simplifying web development. The Studio provides an enhanced developer experience including complete integration with Visual Studio & ASP.NET, visual drag & drop form designer, complete Windows Forms toolkit, 3rd party controls wizard and more.