heard of VisualWebGUI (www.visualwebgui.com) yet???

I haven’t until I bumped into a post by David Hayden.

According to it’s web site (http://www.visualwebgui.com/) – “Visual WebGui (VWG) is an open source rapid application development (RAD) framework for Line-Of-Bussines AJAX & Silverlight GUIs. VWG cuts down development time (proven up to 90%) , without compromising on extensibility, scalability, performance, security or complexity.

Visual WebGui is the only framework that provides seamless integration to Visual Studio and the .NET framework and extends ASP.NET. VWG is unique and not more of the same (200 AJAX frameworks)! Visual WebGui replaces all of the ASP.NET methodologies which were designed for developing sites, with WinForms methodologies, which were designed for developing applications.

VWG provides the developer with an extremely efficient designer to design interfaces using drag and drop instead of hand coding HTML layouts.”

I am not advocating to use it or promoting it by any means as I myself haven’t used it yet but I must say I watched this webcast and I am now intrigued to have a dig at it when I get a spare moment.

Also there’s this rescheduled MSDN event (webcast) originally planned for 23rd July, register if you are keen as mustard as I am – http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032379516&CountryCode=US

ASP.NET MVC CodePlex Preview 4 – released!!

The installer and source for Preview 4 is now available on CodePlex for download (http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=15389).

Here’s a list of changes that have been made between Preview 3 and the current release Preview 4 -

• New Simple Membership Features in the Default Project Template
• New Filter Types for Authorization and Exception Handling
• New Output Cache Filter
• Changes for ASP.NET AJAX
• Namespaces in Routes
• New Interface for Enhanced Testability of TempData
• ActionInvoker Extensibility Improvements

As I highlighted in my previous post – Scott Guthrie has an excellent post with an example covering the new changes – http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/07/14/asp-net-mvc-preview-4-release-part-1.aspx

A sneak peek into ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 Release

If you are keeping a close eye on what’s happening in the ASP.Net MVC space – Scott Guthrie has a post suggesting that the next Preview version (# 4) is to be expected later this week – which I can’t wait to get my hands on!!!

This is perfect for me in terms of timing because for the last few months I have been spending most of my time at one of our client’s place training/mentoring their application development team while trying to employ/adopt a long-term/future-proof Enterprise Development Strategy.

I was reluctant to introduce MVC yet to the team as it is still early stages. Although with some level of custom coding you can implement the core aspects of AJAX  etc, I wanted to wait until I check out Preview 4 – rightly so and as expected here comes an announcement from Scott that preview 4 has new features such as Caching, Error Handling and Security plus further additional support for AJAX.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/07/14/asp-net-mvc-preview-4-release-part-1.aspx