Reviews & Opinions

Rick Strahl wrote the following in his Web log after performing a stress testing to Visual WebGui's scalability as taken from his Visual WebGui and a LINQ to SQL quirk post.

"Visual WebGui is intriguing. It's ridiculous how productive you can be with a tool like this compared to building an ASPX page. But somehow it feels like cheating..."

"well it's interesting. I hooked up Web Application Stress Tool to it and ran through my app and let it rip and surprisingly the throughput is like any other ASP.NET application in terms of number of requests. Now VWG will generate many more requests than your average postback style or even AJAX application, but still if the performance of that throughput with small requests is what I saw in these tests it looks like it should easily scale to at least the threadpool size of users (ie. 100 or so). FWIW, the throughput I saw was 185 req/second which is roughly what I see on a typical simple ASP.NET application. This is with 20 clients and a stress multiplier of 10 with no request limits..."

"I think the biggest issues that I see with VWG are not the scalability but a number of visual inconsistencies. The way textboxes work for example (tabbing around a form for example) is a bit odd, the way lists and anything scrollable look is a little weird etc. - a bunch of small little things that add up. But as I mentioned it's come a long way from the last time I checked which is about a half a year ago. I suspect with the way this product is evolving this is going to improve and offer a solution to a very specialized scenario."