1. Visual WebGui Overview

2. What is Visual WebGui RIA Platform?
Applications Deployment Platform
Secured by design
High performance
Economy deployment
Fully Scalable
Cloud Ready
Migration of Desktop to the Web
Visual StudioTM Development
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3. Why Visual WebGui? (1) Development skills
Desktop Tools
Web
HTML
AJAX
CSS
JavaScript
ASP.NET

4. Why Visual WebGui? (2) Runtime & deployment benefits
Secured by design
Best AJAX Performance & minimal client footprint
As Scalable as ASP.NET (…and even more)
Multi-browsers support (IE, FF, Chrome, Safari, Opera, Netscape)
Support Silverlight & Smart Client /w the same code base
Migration of WinForms, VB 6.0 & Desktop to Web & Silverlight
Fully extendable and customizable UI
Plain ASP.NET xcopy deployment
Full readiness for Cloud deployment

5. Visual WebGui Technology

6. Position in Microsoft’s technologies stack
Runtime: based on the ASP.NET infrastructure
Development time: an ASP.NET flavored project
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7. Command Level Virtualization1
Client first approach  downloads tiny, plain kernel 2
Uniquely Optimized Protocol
Standard AJAX communication / port 80
Standard Browser Clients: IE, FF, Netscape, Chrome, Safari, Opera….
Additional Clients: WinForms /WPF/ Flash/ Mobiles …
Server: no installation, using IIS and .NET CLR
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8. Decoupled Presentation Layers
Standard Browsers
Visual WebGui Server
Silverlight Browsers
“screens” to any device that sends and receives XML
Proven Alternatives (prototypes)
Mobile Devices
Flash/ Flex
WPF Client
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Smart Client

9. Military Grade Security (1) The server controls the application
<<<<<<<< The server “screens” the application to it’s clients
The clients sends nothing but events >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Visual WebGui Server
Optimized events
Empty Clients
Standard HTTP/HTTPS
Instructions metadata
‘Empty Client’ approach prevents the most problematic client security issues. The server does the ‘heavy lifting’
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10. Military Grade Security (2) Endpoints are a security vulnerability
Server
Client
Credentials + Tokens
Sensitive Data
UI Flow/Logic
Business Logic
Consuming Services
Connection strings
More Than 2000 of The World Most Dangerous Hackers Could Not Hack VWG, despite a $10,000 Prize

11. Performance Factors
Uniquely optimized protocol, never exceeds 1kb / request/response. IP
Constant server state CPU.
IPed optimized rendering engine adjusted-able / device/browser.
User testimony: Martin Dube, Symbiose Technologies: “…VWG's main advantage is performance” (read more)
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12. As Scalable as ASP.NET (testing – more)
State Server (i.e. SQL/ Oracle cluster)
Visual WebGui Server 1
Visual WebGui Server 2
Visual WebGui Server 3
Load Balancer Device
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
(F)
Dynamic web farm (call level stickiness)
A single server servers between concurrent users
Redundancy based on a floating session
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13. Productive Proven Development
Develop WinForms API
Deploy Multiple Presentation Layers – Single Codebase
Maintain by basic skilled developers
Design WYSIWYG Designer
WinForms API & tools, one layer .NET Object Oriented code
LIVE DEMO
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14. WinForms Migration to Web Initial Basic Scenario
Ctrl+C/ Ctrl+V
Copy WinForms Code to a new Visual WebGui Application
Replace any System.Windows.Forms to Gizmox.WebGUI.Forms
Ctrl+R
LIVE DEMO
Compile and run in a standard browser
3rd party components:
Wrap any ASP.NET based control Telerik, Infragistics, DeveXpress, ComponentOne
Create your own the control level designer
Choose from VWG suite (58 WinForms controls, Office, Charting etc)
Components vendors are interested in creating VWG controls suits
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15. VB 6.0 Migration & desktop Apps to Web
Option 1 Art-in-Soft: VB 6.0 to WinForms + VWG to Web
Option 2 Re-generating the UI only. Works for desktop technology Result: VB 6.0 to any Web Presentation Layer
Visual WebGui DHTML/Silverlight
Visual Basic 6.0
WinForms

16. ASP.NET One Click Controls Wrapper Automatic integral procedure
Automatically creates a Visual WebGui wired-up control of any ASP.NET based control

17. Control Designer/Skin Designer (Version 6
Control Designer/Skin Designer (Version 6.4+) Providing visual customization & control creation options
Skin Designer
Control Designer
Control & skin designers simplify the creation of custom controls & customizations of existing controls to a visual level. For application branding and customizing themes.
Control Designer

18. Visual WebGui infrastructure to run Silverlight
Windows Forms development
Enterprise controls
Military Grade Security
Server enhanced , powerful UI
Minimal footprint
Migration of WinForms, VB 6.0 & Desktop to Silverlight
DHTML fallback for non Silverlight devices

19. Visual WebGui Samples

20. VWG RIA Scenario Demo LIVE DEMO
/live/webmail/dhtml/
User- guest, Password - webgui
MS outlook porting to web, took 1 developer / 1 month

21. Enterprise Internal Show case
SAP Netweaver Labs
Sharing testing resources
Project 5 18 month
Completed with 2 Developers for 9 months
Savings of $720K for one enterprise application
* Assuming Dev Cost of $120K / year 21

22.
VWG Saves multi-lingual search engine 2 years and $250k
Each revision took between one to five days whilst using classic ASP.NET, would have taken from one to three weeks each
John Graffio: “...VWG has allowed me to come to market anywhere from months ahead of anything I could have remotely dreamed of”
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23. ARC-GREENLAB
Developed ArcGIS ® based solution for the Lower Saxson Chamber of Agriculture Former solution was based on Microsoft Access 97
Martin Krausmann: “Turning to Visual WebGui made it possible to create a rich user interface for both the web and desktop environments.”
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24. Thank you 