Gizmox adds Silverlight to its Web app framework
August 03, 2008 :: 1159 Views
July 31, 2008 — The developer of an open-source rapid application development framework is now using Silverlight at the presentation layer. The framework is built to create line-of-business applications that run on Microsoft’s Internet Information Services Web server
On July 16, Gizmox announced a feature complete beta of Visual WebGui (VWG) that has an extension to the VWG server allowing the use of Silverlight-based GUIs.
VWG 6.1.2 integrates with Visual Studio 2003 through 2008, adding a drag-and-drop designer for developing Web applications. Applications created with VWG can be accessed through multiple presentation layers, including ASP.NET, DHTML and Silverlight.
IIS routes requests from a Web application to the VWG server component, which then serves up files required to stream the Silverlight UI.
VWG can also migrate existing Visual Basic 6 and Windows Forms applications to a Silverlight interface without a rewrite, the company claims.
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