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WinForms Applications to Web & Cloud

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WinForms applications to Web & Cloud at a "button-push"

Visual WebGui provides the simplest, fastest application migration path from WinForms to Web & Cloud. In case of pure WinForms applications, Visual WebGui allows to enable your WinForms application on the Web & Cloud by simply replacing the namespaces of the original code.

Without Visual WebGui, enabling a WinForms desktop application on web or cloud, would require a full re-engineering of the UI layer to fit the web architecture and capabilities.

Web enabling WinForms applications could be as simple as copy and paste

Enabling a pure WinForms application on web/cloud can be as simple as Copy & Paste:

WinForms migration to Web & Cloud

Or simple and straight forward third party controls conversion

In some cases such as when 3rd party controls are used there are some considerations & adjustments required:

Migrating mixed WinForms applications

Learn more about the WinForms enablement considerations & exceptions >

On the road map - a WinForms dedicated migration SDK with readiness assessment tool.

Visual WebGui vs. alternatives

The following table compares between the considerations and actions that need to be taken in order to migrate a WinForms application to the Web or Cloud.

Migration Benefits:
Web applications access Fully functional Web app. in 3 simple steps
Responsive Rich Internet Applications Consume from any plain browser - no plugin
open source RIA & Cloud Platform Maintain your Desktop running environment & performance
UI design
freedom
custom UI
Any UI from
Windows to
Web 2.0 styles
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WinForms to Web Considerations & Steps
 
Recreate using new API  Replace namespaces - identical API
Design new look & feel Look & feel is ported identically
Build client-server interaction infrastructures Seamlessly optimized Ajax interaction
Atrophy features due to Web limitations Functionality is ported as is
Fill up security holes Unhackable by design

* Visual WebGui Silverlight SDK will be available soon.

 
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