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Gizmox has released its Visual WebGui Professional Studio a tool for building enterprise-class rich Internet applications. The new commercial Studio Suite offers full integration with Visual Studio and enterprise grade scalability and redundancy with server extensions. In addition, new enterprise-class services, such as prototyping, consulting, hot-fixes, and more are available to optimize the development experience.

Visual WebGui is an AJAX / Silverlight development framework for RIA development. Visual WebGui is designed to enable the development of business line applications in a WinForms environment and dual deploy to the web as ASP.NET or as a standalone desktop application. With Visual WebGui, if you can develop in Windows you can easily develop for the web without proficient knowledge of ASP.NET, AJAX, or Silverlight. The design-time components interface as they do in their WinForms format since they inherit their object model from the existing WinForms components. Visual WebGui's components become a de-coupled version of the well-known WinForms components allowing for transparent Ajax communication with the patent pending Ajax client. The Visual WebGui client employs javascript, XSL and CSS to deliver application like GUI components that look, feel and behave like their desktop counterparts resulting in rich internet applications that are responsive, scalable, and customizable.

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