Visual WebGui targets Web, Silverlight, and Azure
August 10, 2009 :: 2963 Views
Written by Martin Heller, Strategic Developer
Development tool creates Web sites, RIAs, and cloud applications from desktop Windows Forms applications
Last Thursday I had the pleasure of speaking with Navot Peled, CEO, and Itzik Spitzen, vice president of R&D of the Israeli software firm Gizmox. Their product Visual WebGUI, which I blogged about in January 2008, has outgrown its roots as a simple way to Web-enable Windows Forms applications.
Now you can start with a Windows Forms application (or develop one) and target the Web, Silverlight RIAs, and/or the Windows Azure cloud with a minimum of work. The general idea is that you copy your code into the correct kind of project, replace the System.Windows.Forms namespace in your code with Gizmox.Webgui.Forms, build, and deploy. These steps are illustrated for an Azure target in the screen shots below.
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