It may be worth it to you to give it a try. Though it's little rough around the edges at this point, this product can be used today to produce web applications from .NET Windows Forms projects. And - the developer is rapidly improving the product each month.

It looks to be bringing drag-and-drop desktop development to web applications, and apparently the performance is pretty awesome. (Trackback).

The demonstrations and screen casts I have seen on Visual WebGui are pretty intriguing. Visual WebGui's tagline is “bringing AJAX and Silverlight to enterprises”. It looks to be bringing drag-and-drop desktop development to web applications, and apparently the performance is pretty awesome.

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"First, this product is the best thing since sliced bread.  It seems to address every pain point we'd had over the years...we can actaully enjoy developing again.   So, obviously I'm eager to take it for a test spin....

(config aside....I still can't believe how great of a product this is!!  All of the multi-billion dollars assets of microsoft couldn't figure this out...and you guys did!  You guys might change the web more than Silverlight + ASP.NET combinded.)

Cheers,
Mike

Joel Hulen  on Joe Stagner Blog (Trackback)

Your initial VWG introductionary post a couple of months ago piqued my interest and prompted me to download the 5.829 SDK that was available at the time.

I was able to create an Outlook Web Access (OWA)-type web application that is fully featured and adds a lot of additional functionality, within a matter of a few weeks. The time savings is incredible and the simplicity of creating web applications within a Windows forms-like environment saves a ridiculous amount of time and effort. I did not have to write one line of HTML or Javascript, and the footprint of the application is incredibly small, particularly the incremental UI updates resulting from the Ajax-on-server technology implemented by the VWG framework.

Thank you so much for introducing this incredible resource to me!

The application development and deployment tool targets users familiar with Windows Forms.  “All the Visual Studio or Windows Forms documentation is basically the same for WebGui,”