Visual WebGui 6.2 released - CIOL News Reports

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Visual WebGui 6.2 released

Visual WebGui 6.2 features a consolidated installer and a higher level of integration into Visual Studio for improvement in developer experience

Monday, October 13, 2008

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL: Gizmox, the developer of Visual WebGui open source platform, has announced the release of Visual WebGui 6.2. The upgrade will introduce a complete integration into the Visual Studio designer, allowing Visual WebGui Projects to be configured without any need for manual configuration. The Silverlight Package has also been upgraded to include the Silverlight Packager into the Visual Studio Project Property Pages.

In addition, the new version can also be installed without Visual Studio and allows developing web from almost any machine with either the free Visual Studio Express edition, the open source SharpDevelop, or even Notepad. The upgraded version allows Visual WebGui to expose the entire set of desktop development tools exactly as in WinForms, a level that was unreachable in previous versions. The new version also contains an upgraded installation protocol which consolidates all Visual WebGui's Products, Open source Installation, Documentation and Samples into a single step-by-step process.

Additional features available in the upgrade include:

Full Compatibility with Windows Vista
Customizable Drag and Drop Animation in Run Time
DHTML Rendering Enhancements providing faster rendering and enabling multi-tab browsing in Internet Explorer 7
VeriSign Certification Signatures for the entire installation process for higher security

"This new version of Visual WebGui addresses many of the issues raised by the development community about our previous releases," said Navot Peled, CEO, Gizmox. "This edition enables a more efficient usage and configuration of Visual WebGui and the installer includes all of Visual WebGui SDK's. NET versions as well as all of the commercial extensions. We look forward to hearing from our community of developers, who can evaluate the entire solution suite free of charge."

Gizmox is the Company that released Visual WebGui to the public in early 2008, is poised to create a new standard in cloud computing. Since its release there have been over 250,000 downloads of its DHTML version. Visual WebGui (VWG) is a new 'Web like Desktop' platform that offers open source rapid application development (RAD) framework for Line of Business AJAX & Silverlight applications atop the platform. VWG cuts down development time (proven up to 90 percent) without compromising on extensibility, scalability, performance, security or complexity.

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