Why Windows 8 does not mean the end for .NET development
June 16, 2011 :: 4273 Views
Since the demo of Windows 8 given by Microsoft Vice President Julie Larson-Green at the recent D9 conference windows developers have been described in many articles as feeling "Horrified" "Worried" "Deeply Concerned". Why?
From the demo it seems that the new Window’s 8 ‘immersive’ applications will be based on HTML5 and JavaScript – which means for experienced win devs who have invested years in learning windows development platforms, they will now have to ‘re-train’ if they want to create these apps. This group is dedicated to programming with Microsoft tools, and now Microsoft seems to be implying that it’s time for them to move on.
But here’s why Microsoft developers have nothing to fear. Visual WebGui is a tool that enables .NET developers, to use their existing skill set and create rich, secured-by-design, HTML5 Rich internet applications. The VWG technology platform that combines virtualization and application streaming to enable data-centric enterprise desktop applications to run on secured-by-design internet environments, as if they are running in a desktop environment.
Visual WebGui ProStudio .NETHTML5 is the only total development environment in which programmers can develop efficient-running, data-centric HTML5 web apps in Visual Studio. It works through a combination of pure Microsoft .NET development, abstraction of Java Script / HTML5 functionality through jQuery and the abstraction of Ajax, database connectivity and data binding.
No matter what Microsoft confirms about Windows 8 come September, whether they decide to stop supporting .NET or put more emphasis on the advantages of HTML5 over it, VWG enables .NET to appear as HTML/HTML5 on the client. Visual WebGui ensures that Windows 8 does not mean the end for .NET development.
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