New tool helps modernizing Client/Server apps to VWG ASP.NET
Upgrading a Client/Server desktop based application to ASP.NET Web or Cloud based environment is thought to be a very complex and risky process. Most of us are intimidated only by the thought of taking one of our large, business applications; one that we have been working on for quite a while now, not to say mission critical and migratie it to a differernt technology. Most of us will follow the good old saying: If it ain't broken why fix it, right?! Which means that we will eventually find our selves with a very large and old system which the only possible solution for modernizing it would be the costly rewrite that we probably cannot afford or don't have the tme to wait for.
But what if you could know exactly what it takes for your application can be converted to ASP.NET based technology and that it doesn't mean a whole lot of work and resources on your end...
Well, Visual WebGui is a unique platform that its architecture that via its innovative pipeline virtualizes Client/Server on top of a standard Web server and runs the application as native ASP.NET VWG and with desktop-grade security, richness and performance all via standard Web browser (plug-in free) or mobile. This architectural fact allows to convert .NET applications to ASP.NET VWG based Web and Cloud (SaaS) in a simple path and practically no risks since no rewrite or reengineering is required (other Client/Server technologies can be converted to .NET first and then to ASP.NET VWG based Web and Cloud).
VWG Client/Server virtualization
Now, in order to support those declerations Visual WebGui released a tool that can analyze .NET Windows Forms applications in a matter of minutes and provide a quick assessment report about your Client/Server (.NET Windows Forms at the moment and soon VB6 and other Client/Server technologies) application readiness to be moved to ASP.NET based Web and Cloud using the Visual WebGui CloudMove solution.
The AssessmentTool is a simple, downloadable standalone EXE application that can be executed on the runtime assemblies of a Windows Forms application, from which it extracts detailed information regarding your project (technology statistics and usages). This information is by no mean a risk to your intellectual property as it collects technological information and statistics and not business logic analysis or algorithms capturing.
AssessmentTool Report - Summary & Overview
This tool is based on a wide database which is created progressively during the assessment process. After creating this database it runs some queries on it, searching for patterns and usages that are risky or requiring manual adjustments when running as VWG ASP.NET Web or Cloud. The results are aggregated as a readable report which indicates the relative portion of the application that can be reused automatically (as-is). In addition it provides more specific information on the parts that will require adjustments and manual intervention such as finding ASP.NET equivalent replacements to 3rd party components.
Deep analysis - Possible issues and suggested solutions
This report assists you further to decide and assess the efforts require to upgrade the application to the Web, based on the level of the automatic transposition vs. the manual intervention required. We expect that the majority of Window Form applications will show 80% - 90% portion readiness for transposition and will not require manual adjustment.