Visual WebGui Case Studies

In the beginning of 2005 IFN started developing the next generation of its products, this time focusing on web oriented solutions as all the market did. It started to research and look for the right technology to adopt. IFN knew what it was looking for and what it wanted to achieve but was searching the best way to get there. IFN knew that it's customers would not accept anything but a client/server functionality based on web technology. That’s when IFN came upon WebGui which is a web application framework that enabled them to develop application in client/server development concepts.

"Basically, with Visual WebGui, you develop your web applications as if you are developing a Win Form based application. Then you compile your project and magic, you get a web page with an amazing rich look and feel. Of course, since it’s all AJAX there are no refreshes, no postbacks, and it’s very fast," Asaf Saar.

Mark Reed, NetworkD’s Group Development Lead reveals “Once we went to VWG we saw anywhere from 100%-400%+ improvement in speed those issues that took 15 seconds went down to 2-3 seconds. I stumbled upon VWG and installed it and after 1 hour I was convinced that we needed to port the entire project over and that any current time lose would be made up down the road with ease of maintainability…”

The biggest impact has been the speed of development. We are able to create more professional looking products with less time and effort then before and saved us from having to hire additional staff. The fact that we could integrate other tools that we bought such as Data Dynamics saved us a lot of time as well ...