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"Visual WebGui allowed us to spend more time on providing a solution to our customer’s needs and less time on the technical details of web application development" --J. Patrick Vandersluis, Ph.D., CEO of HealthRx Overview HealthRx Corporation provides software solutions for healthcare, biomedical research, biosafety, and complex patient management.  Notable HealthRx customers include the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).   Business Needs In 2002, HealthRx Corporation developed a rich-client solution for the NIH to catalogue and track all potentially hazardous materials used in the many institutes’ biomedical research.  The growing need for a web-based solution inspired HealthRx to fold this solution, then called the Potentially Hazardous Materials Information System (PHMIS), into their PI-Dashboard offering, an online bi... (more)

Flavonoids Can Prevent Impairment of Endothelial Function After High-Fat Meals

In the results of a new clinical study published by the Oxford Journal of Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, researchers find that supplementing your diet with flavonoids can reduce the acute decline in endothelial function caused by eating a high-fat meal. The endothelium is the inner lining of blood vessels that allows blood to flow smoothly, and endothelial dysfunction is the hardening of these vessels that leads directly to heart attacks, strokes, and other fatal hypertension diseases. Various foods high in flavonoids such as black tea, dark chocolate, re... (more)

Visual WebGui Silverlight platform

Visual WebGui combined with Silverlight is a platform to create & deploy server based rich Silverlight applications. Leveraging an extremely graphically rich Silverlight as a presentation layer, maintaining the customizability using the same XAML editing tools (Expression Blend, Cider etc) only controlled by the server on runtime.   Visual WebGui/Silverlight                          Plain Silverlight   Why Visual WebGui with Silverlight? Visual WebGui platform is the natural choice for creation & migration of rich Silverlight data centric & business centric applications. Visu... (more)

Visual WebGui 'Empty Client' Security Concept

Introduction The following document is a Visual WebGui security concept summary. Exploring the Visual WebGui unique pipeline protocol will shade light on the reasons why Visual WebGui is secured by design. Abstract Visual WebGui is a server based architecture executing the application business logics on the server and projecting the UI to the client (as describes in figure 1 below). Utilizing IIS and ASP.NET session, a metadata of the relevant UI objects tree is kept on the server. Figure 1   A highly optimized protocol by Visual WebGui is responsible to send events to the s... (more)

Case Study: Manufacturing Activity Management System

"Visual WebGui makes the delivery of sophisticated applications about as simple as it could be... We delivered this application with 1.25 developers part time over 4 months, including the SQL database design" --Viking's Geoff Sorensen. Overview Manufacturing industries extensively use contract resources to perform 'non-core' or 'overload' tasks or services, and require business processes and systems to manage and control the activity of these providers. Paper based processes, while apparently simple and effective up-front, cannot readily provide the necessary site access control ... (more)