Thank You Twitter Hackers

The repeated Twitter hacking exposes the complex and serious security issues on the web.

"The repeated Twitter hacking exposes the complex and serious security issue on the web. Unfortunately for Twitter (Google Apps, Facebook, and others), the problems have unfolded in a public arena, forcing them respond quickly to calm users and resulting in a short term solution (that clearly has not been working!). What is unknown to many internet users is that the problem doesn't end with Twitter's band aid approach, nor is the intrusion limited to internet sites. The security issues don't start here - they start with the platforms and applications that don't enable software to be developed with the proper security. Fortunately for the software developers but unfortunately for the public, the greater problem has stayed out of the headlines of mainstream media outlets..."

Navot Peled is addressing that issue in the following article >

Visual WebGui Professional Studio version 6.3.9 was released

Visual WebGui Professional Studio version 6.3.9 was released.

This vnew ersion includes several new features & enhancements of previous studio versions as well as some fixes. For example, a new simple and convenient way to specify what runtime version of Silverlight that the Visual WebGui application should support.

6.3.9 versions of Visual WebGui Community SDK & Express Studio are expected to be available for download on the website in the next day or so.

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Creating a Framework for AJAX CMS w/ Visual WebGui

"...Flexible software systems require a foundation that supplies the basic system services that's easy for developers to use, yet powerful enough to support complex and flexible systems—in other words, a framework..."

The second article by Bogdan Zamfir written & published on DevX continues to develop the Mini CMS system with the Visual WebGui Web & Cloud Platform (a followup article to: Creating a Prototype) which will get some base components that represent the actual workplace.

"...These will support loading and showing modules inside the workplace, passing control between modules, and unloading them when their tasks are complete. Modules should be able to call other modules and pass some parameters. The called module should be able to return control back to the calling module and also return an exit status (if the user saved changes or canceled), so the calling module can update itself accordingly..."

Read the full Build an AJAX Content Management System with Visual WebGUI: Creating a Framework article...

A new VWG Web & Cloud Platform Preview version released

The 2nd Preview version of the upcoming Visual WebGui 6.4 breakthrough Web & Cloud platform was released.

This version presents another step forward in this cutting-edge version which is expected to be released later this year. Preview 2 resolves many bugs and issues of the 1st Preview version and also introduces some new features and enhancements including enhanced datagrid performance and enhanced menus mechanism which enables right click events and opening menus anywhere on the screen.

The change log with the full list of breaking changes (fixes, new features & tasks) is available here.

The Preview version is fully functional and available for free download.

A web-based application simplifying software distribution developed using VWG

THe following quote is taken from a new case study of smcTeam's AeX Collection Manager. smcTeam's AeX Collection Manager is a web-based application used to simplify software distribution within an Altiris environment.

The required functionality did not exist as out-of-the-box feature so the company needed to develop a new solution to distribute software packages quickly and with a minimal administrative overhead. Based on a standard software distribution application a frontend had to be developed which allowed for a quick on-demand delivery of software packages to particularly chosen client computers.

"Only several days of development were needed for the creation of the application, compared to some weeks which would have been required with other solutions. Moreover, the code maintenance is very convenient so that additional savings are already obvious," Thilo Ruhland

Read to complete case...

New Visual WebGui Wiki site launched

Visual WebGui, the Web & Cloud Application Development Platform, announces the creation of a Wiki page designed to provide a new interaction zone for Visual WebGui users to read, post, and share development knowledge.

The Wiki page will feature detailed information on Visual WebGui, tips and tricks on how to best use the platform, code samples, control pages, SDK version highlights, case studies, and much more.

The site will also feature user-generated content posted by Visual WebGui community members, a major benefit that will allow actual product experience monitoring for the entire community.

Check out the new Visual WebGui Wiki page to start learning, sharing, and developing today: wiki.visualwebgui.com

Visual WebGui new Web & Cloud offerings' name challenge

Visual WebGui is evolving and as we go new opportunities present themselves. As you all know we have been working hard on maturing Visual WebGui rich web offerings along with adding functionality that you, VWG community members have been asking for.

This autumn we target to release 6.4 which promises to be the ultimate enterprise rich Internet application solution.

We still have some mileage ahead of us on the road to turning VWG into standard de facto rich enterprise solution, but apparently we are heading there on a pace that no other platform ever did before. Here are some of the recent evolvements that we would like to share with you.

VWG will be addressing 3 market segments with targeted offerings based on the same core technology: Rich enterprise web Apps. Cloud Apps. and legacy Apps. migration to web and cloud. We will be offering 3 dedicated and focused offerings in all 3 segments.

We are not facing the challenges involved alone. Partnerships with world leaders on the Cloud and Migration will be announced when they mature, those will be highly strategic partnerships that will take the VWG revolution into the next phase.

There are 2 main reasons for this post:

1. To let you, Visual WebGui community members in on our plans and the VWG direction and to promise you that the new opportunities will not affect our focus on your needs and supporting them.
2. We want to announce name challenge, and ask you, VWG community member to participate in a name finding challenge. The chosen names will be reworded by a 5 years subscription, for each name eventually chosen by Gizmox.

We are looking for names for the following offering:

1. Visual WebGui Web suit - it will be a web dedicated development kit with web dedicated designers and controls
2. Visual WebGui Cloud suit - It will be based on the above but will add some additional cloud dedicated features to enable unlimited scalability over cloud infrastructure, and further abstractions for cloud easy and native deployment.
3. Migration suit - that will offer the closest as possible solution to automating the VB6 and WinForms migration into web and cloud.

On each of the above Visual WebGui innovative infrastructure is going to offer the easiest and simplest developer targeted solution, and yet open for developers to extend and customize under our open source approach.

Please send your feedback and suggestions via our Contact form or to sales@gizmox.com