Opinion on Visual WebGui

Question

I would like to hear your experiense with Gizmox Visual WebGui product. Thanks.

Answer 1

I've been looking at it for a few weeks on and off and I've been unable to find substantive information that doesn't originate from Gizmox itself. That combined with documentation that seems lacking at best makes me think it needs some more time before it should really be considered.

Answer 2

Perhaps this will help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/456045/visual-webgui

Answer 3

Its an alternative to creating Rich Internet Applications (RIA) rather than hacking away ASP.Net and AJAX and CSS.

My experience with it was quite difficult. The way to make it work seems quite tedious.

Although the GUI is really cool.

Answer 4

I have been using Visual WebGUI for the last 3 years now and still I don't want to go back to the 'traditional' way of ASP.NET and AJAX. All the things I've done so far are all heavily relying on database interaction and forms. Another thing is the speed of development. If you find your way, which is in contrast of the above reply is quite easy, you will notice that all the work you do is done quicker then hacking your way in HTML, C# and JavaScripting.

I am a software engineer for the last 15 years now and I can keep my focus on the trends in software development instead of trying to get your apps running according to the wishes of the client. But the next best thing is the performance of the written app's. As there is almost no data going back and forth all apps are responsive as if you were running a local application. And a added bonus where asp.net looses is it's statefull programming. Instead of having to figure out the state at each call you can set your vars in the backend and have them still there when you return the call!

So in my opinion VWG has been a time saving and easy way of developing high end applications.

Hope this will help in deciding if Visual WebGUI would work for you! For tutorials, snippets and other ideas you can also take a look at http://www.visualwebgui.com/Developers/KB/tabid/654/Default.aspx, this is the VWG knowledge base..

With kind regards,

Michael, The Netherlands