Visual WebGui Blog

More than 1,700 users attempted to break into the Visual WebGui pipeline unsuccessfully during the $10,000 Security Challenge that ended this month after airing for over 3 months.

Today, we are going to learn how easy it is to embed a Visual WebGui (VWG) form in an ASP.Net application. This capability allows you to quickly develop modules or port WinForms application to Web using VWG and then embed them in your currently working ASP.Net application.

Introduction
The following document is a Visual WebGui security concept summary that explores the Visual WebGui unique pipeline protocol and will shade light on the reasons why Visual WebGui is secure by design.

The following case study was formed from CIMCO's need to migrate its existing CIMCO-CMMS Windows Forms product to the web so it can be run in a browser.
It was extremely important to alleviate the need to install any software on the client and to create the software according to the market's preferences which require a modern looking UI which is still easy to use.

Visual WebGui SDK version 6.2.4 was released today.
This is a stabilization version to the 6.2.3 open source SDK and it can be downloaded here.

Visual WebGui released a new 6.3 version of its framework. The all new Studio Suite enables the building of enterprise-class rich internet applications with two open source products: The Professional Studio offers subscribers unlimited technical support with enterprise-grade warranty and service level agreement (SLA) which is available for free download and the free Express Studio allowing absolutely free web development coupled with VS2008 Express Edition. The Visual WebGui 6.3 SDK is also released and still available as open source for free. 

In this tutorial we will learn how to wrap an ASP.Net control without the use of a designer or wizard and use that control in a Visual WebGui application. The ability to wrap ASP.Net controls allows you to use third party controls for ASP.Net and your own custom controls and to enrich your arsenal of controls to create rich internet applications.
Visual WebGui extends ASP.NET. It extends an ihttp handler and implements its own pipeline. VWG is actually an ASP.NET site. The diagram bellow illustrates the technological hierarchy which puts VWG at the same level as ASP.NET. Since the application and session are shared integration between ASP.NET and Visual WebGui is possible.

In this tutorial we will learn how to use Visual WebGui source code instead of the pre-compiled DLLs to developed and to extend Visual WebGui applications and abilities.
Working with the source code instead of working with the pre-compiled DLLs enables you to change VWG code to fit your needs.