| | Whether you are a Developer, Project Manager, or Component Vendor - NOV opens new horizons for you and your business.
Explore the benefits this platform has to offer:
Once you learn the NOV framework and its components, you instantly gain reusable knowledge that you can apply in a wide set of Web, Windows, and macOS development environments (such as Blazor-WebAssembly, WinForms, WPF, and Mac).
The 100% cross-platform API of NOV also makes it possible to reuse or simply copy-paste source code from previous projects into new ones, regardless of the platform for which you develop. Over time this helps you build reusable code that can come in handy in many projects.
Simply put your NOV knowledge and NOV Source Code are highly reusable. |
Are you sure that the GUI Framework you’ve based your application on will be supported in five or maybe ten years in the future? Big companies often
discontinue UI frameworks or simply stop developing them, even though you have invested heavily in the development of applications that use
them. The fact, however, is that every time you start a new app you need to worry about the lifetime of the GUI Framework it is based on.
With Nevron Open Vision you don’t have to worry about the future of a particular .NET GUI Framework. That’s because NOV allows you to quickly switch the
framework as your source code depends on the NOV APIs – which we strive to keep constant in time. That way your code and investment are protected from the
constant changes in the GUI Frameworks. |
Nevron Open Vision is based on proven, time-tested and open standards such as W3C DOM, CSS, SVG, PDF, TrueType, Unicode, RTF, and many others. All the terminology and API
functionality should be already familiar to you if you have prior experience with HTML or Desktop front end development.
This also gives you additional assurance that your choice to use NOV is sound because it is based on ideas and standards everybody else has accepted as universal. |
Nevron Open Vision is not simply a collection of UI controls. It is a set of controls that share a common design, ideology, framework, and quality standards. This
is what makes NOV an exceptional product. All the controls in the suite are crafted with attention to detail and have an unrivaled depth of implementation for every
advanced feature.
Nevron Open Vision was developed by the Nevron A* team, which features several of the world’s leading experts in Typography, Graphics, and Web Browser Engines. It is
indeed a masterpiece made by professionals with 20+ years of experience.
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The choice of a target platform (i.e. “Web, Windows or Mac?”), for the project that you manage is typically the most significant decision that you, as a project manager, need to take. It affects many aspects of the project planning such as the proper qualification of the developers that are needed, the portability and life-cycle of your project, etc. It is a risky decision that cannot be avoided.
The question “Web, Windows or Mac?” has however only one correct answer – Nevron Open Vision for .NET. With this framework at hand, you do not need to choose your target platform, because NOV helps you develop for all of them simultaneously. |
Binding your project to a specific Presentation Layer means that you limit the scope of the customers that you target.
But what if you want your application to run on Windows and Mac?
Nevron Open Vision for .NET helps you expand the scope or your client’s base, by providing you with a Cross-Platform .NET GUI Toolkit. This ultimately means that it helps you grow your business. |
How many developers do you need to make the presentation layer of your application? If you intend to develop for multiple platforms you will surely need dozens.
If you are not using a single code base, then you will need hundreds of developers to make things look and feel the same way. In fact even the largest corporations cannot do that, can they?
Nevron Open Vision for .NET is a game-changer. You don't need specialized Windows (WinForms or WPF), or macOS development teams anymore to make one and the same thing to look and feel the same,
because Nevron Open Vision is identical on every integration platform. Now you need ONLY ONE presentation layer team – your Nevron Open Vision team! |
Porting a .NET application to a different platform can kill a company. The .NET-based companies that don't manage to port fast are about to die sooner or later.
Therefore sooner or later you will need to port to a different .NET environment, that may even not exist yet. There are only two possible ways for this to happen:
1) If you haven't started with Nevron Open Vision for .NET - you will end up trashing your budget and losing precious time.
Maybe a complete rewrite will be needed? Maybe the new environment won't support all the features that you used?
Maybe your current vendor of choice won't support all the components and features in the new environment?
There will be many "maybe's" - they will cost you lots of time and money, and what's worse – some of them won't be solvable.
And what if at some point you need to port back... Perhaps you haven’t started right at the first place.
2) If you have started with Nevron Open Vision for .NET – you will simply recompile for the new environment.
It won't take more than an hour. If you need to port back – you will recompile for the old environment.
It's that simple, quick and cheap – porting will not be an issue. |
"What's wrong with our old application? Why do we have troubles adding new features and improving it? Why is it slowly dying?"
Well that's because the environment in which you develop it does no longer evolve – its' life-cycle has ended. So the features that used to come out of the box with
every new release have suddenly seized in a natural way ... and many issues were left unfixed... They will never be fixed.
When you sign for a concrete presentation layer, you sign a hidden lifecycle pact. There are too many corporate interests involved in the presentation layers developed by the
large corporations, but there is one common thing for them all – they have a limited and usually quite a short lifecycle.
Nevron Open Vision for .NET on the other hand is developed by a company with traditions in long lifecycle projects.
Since Nevron Open Vision is platform independent, we don't plan to put any limits on this presentation layer lifecycle at all.
Whether Blazor, WinForms, WPF or Mac the other presentation layers in which we integrate is dead, obsolete, or not supported any more is of no concern for NOV – it has a lifecycle of its own. |
Typically, based on the selected platform, new projects are started with third-party components at hand.
However since component vendors are divided and stretched across so many different platforms, their offerings are very inconsistent and basically contain more or less the same
trivial functionality at a greater price.
The price is actually not the biggest problem. When you base a solution on third-party components, you would expect that these components are able to migrate to a
new OS or environment. If they don't, then your project is in a stalemate situation – it will never run on a new OS or environment.
The truth is that only the components inside Nevron Open Vision for .NET are 100% identical on all environments.
There may be other vendors that develop for a wide range of .NET presentation layers, but their toolkits are bound to the underlying framework(s) and their capabilities are quite
different on a per-platform basis.
So no matter where you look, you will not find an offer this good: One Presentation Layer, One Code Base, One Vendor. |
Nevron Open Vision for .NET provides the solid foundations needed for cross-platform LOB application development in .NET.
Since NOV is the first and by far the only cross-platform, fully-managed application development framework for .NET, it provides unique opportunities for
Nevron Technology Integration Partners, interested in developing components and solutions based on NOV.
As part of the Technology Integration Program we are proving our partners with the following benefits:
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dedicated Presentation of the NOV technology;
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dedicated Support from our team in integrating the NOV technology;
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ability to integrate and resell NOV as part of their solution (OEM Program);
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A great new presentation layer, such as NOV, opens countless opportunities for everyone to develop components and plugins that can be used everywhere.
Nevron Open Vision will allow independent developers and ISVs to develop Components and Controls that extend the functionality of the NOV Cross-Platform Presentation Layer.
Have you developed a component or something that extends the NOV functionality? Submit your work to the Nevron Team today.
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Thinking of whether you should learn WinForms, WPF, Mac and/or other .NET presentation layer?
Well this might just be a waste of nerves and time, since no matter what you learn for one of these platforms, chances are it is either not supported or is done in a different way in the others.
You finally end up knowing nothing. Why? - Simply because your knowledge was not reusable on the first place.
If you learn to program with Nevron Open Vision for .NET however, you can start developing cutting edge applications and user interfaces for all these platforms, from a single code base.
No more "Can I do this here like I did it there?" - If you know how to do it with Nevron Open Vision – you know how to do it everywhere.
With NOV you gain reusable knowledge. |
With a statistical life-cycle of approximately five years, chances are that the presentation layer for .NET that you already know will soon be "old fashioned", "not supported",
"not developed any more" or something similar. You will soon again be a newbie, because your existing knowledge is not tangible in time.
Nevron Open Vision on the other hand is developed by a company with traditions in long life-cycle projects. Maybe it is time to become acquainted with Nevron Open Vision for .NET –
it will prove to be the most tangible .NET knowledge that you have ever gained. |
That's it - finally a platform-independent presentation layer framework for .NET development that is based on open standards, such as W3C DOM, CSS, TrueType and many others.
If you have spent some time developing web applications you already know the basics of the Nevron Open Vision for .NET – it is a managed, platform-independent and extensible browser. |
A great rarity these days is to find a .NET library that is made by real professionals – from the very beginning to the very end.
There may be hundreds of .NET libraries, but the majority of them simply lack the thought and breath necessary to be classified as professional.
Nevron Open Vision was developed by the Nevron A* team, which features several of the world’s leading experts in Typography, Graphics and Web Browser Engines.
It is indeed a masterpiece made by professionals with 20+ years of experience. |
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The choice of a presentation layer (i.e. “WinForms, WPF, Mac or other presentation layer?”), for the project that you manage is typically the most significant decision
that you, as a project manager, need to take. It affects many aspects of the project planning such as the proper qualification of the developers that are needed, the portability and
life-cycle of your project, etc. It is a risky decision that cannot be avoided.
The question “WinForms, WPF, Mac or other presentation layer?” has however only one correct answer – Nevron Open Vision for .NET.
With this platform at hand you do not need to choose your .NET presentation layer - Nevron Open Vision integrates with them all. |
Binding your project to a specific Presentation Layer means that you limit the scope of the customers that you target.
But what if you want your application to run on Windows and Mac?
Nevron Open Vision for .NET helps you expand the scope or your client’s base, by providing you with a Cross-Platform .NET GUI Toolkit. This ultimately means that it helps you grow your business. |
How many developers do you need to make the presentation layer of your application? If you intend to develop for multiple platforms you will surely need dozens.
If you are not using a single code base, then you will need hundreds of developers to make things look and feel the same way. In fact even the largest corporations cannot do that, can they?
Nevron Open Vision for .NET is a game-changer. You don't need specialized Windows (WinForms or WPF), or macOS development teams anymore to make one and the same thing to look and feel the same,
because Nevron Open Vision is identical on every integration platform. Now you need ONLY ONE presentation layer team – your Nevron Open Vision team! |
Porting a .NET application to a different platform can kill a company. The .NET-based companies that don't manage to port fast are about to die sooner or later.
Therefore sooner or later you will need to port to a different .NET environment, that may even not exist yet. There are only two possible ways for this to happen:
1) If you haven't started with Nevron Open Vision for .NET - you will end up trashing your budget and losing precious time.
Maybe a complete rewrite will be needed? Maybe the new environment won't support all the features that you used?
Maybe your current vendor of choice won't support all the components and features in the new environment?
There will be many "maybe's" - they will cost you lots of time and money, and what's worse – some of them won't be solvable.
And what if at some point you need to port back... Perhaps you haven’t started right at the first place.
2) If you have started with Nevron Open Vision for .NET – you will simply recompile for the new environment.
It won't take more than an hour. If you need to port back – you will recompile for the old environment.
It's that simple, quick and cheap – porting will not be an issue. |
"What's wrong with our old application? Why do we have troubles adding new features and improving it? Why is it slowly dying?"
Well that's because the environment in which you develop it does no longer evolve – its' life-cycle has ended. So the features that used to come out of the box with
every new release have suddenly seized in a natural way ... and many issues were left unfixed... They will never be fixed.
When you sign for a concrete presentation layer, you sign a hidden lifecycle pact. There are too many corporate interests involved in the presentation layers developed by the
large corporations, but there is one common thing for them all – they have a limited and usually quite a short lifecycle.
Nevron Open Vision for .NET on the other hand is developed by a company with traditions in long lifecycle projects.
Since Nevron Open Vision is platform independent, we don't plan to put any limits on this presentation layer lifecycle at all.
Whether WinForms, WPF, Mac or the other presentation layers in which we integrate is dead, obsolete, or not supported any more is of no concern for NOV – it has a lifecycle of its own. |
Typically, based on the selected platform, new projects are started with third-party components at hand.
However since component vendors are divided and stretched across so many different platforms, their offerings are very inconsistent and basically contain more or less the same
trivial functionality at a greater price.
The price is actually not the biggest problem. When you base a solution on third-party components, you would expect that these components are able to migrate to a
new OS or environment. If they don't, then your project is in a stalemate situation – it will never run on a new OS or environment.
The truth is that only the components inside Nevron Open Vision for .NET are 100% identical on all environments.
There may be other vendors that develop for a wide range of .NET presentation layers, but their toolkits are bound to the underlying framework(s) and their capabilities are quite
different on a per-platform basis.
So no matter where you look, you will not find an offer this good: One Presentation Layer, One Code Base, One Vendor. |
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Nevron Open Vision for .NET provides the solid foundations needed for cross-platform LOB application development in .NET.
Since NOV is the first and by far the only cross-platform, fully-managed application development framework for .NET, it provides unique opportunities for
Nevron Technology Integration Partners, interested in developing components and solutions based on NOV.
As part of the Technology Integration Program we are proving our partners with the following benefits:
-
dedicated Presentation of the NOV technology;
-
dedicated Support from our team in integrating the NOV technology;
-
ability to integrate and resell NOV as part of their solution (OEM Program);
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A great new presentation layer, such as NOV, opens countless opportunities for everyone to develop components and plugins that can be used everywhere.
Nevron Open Vision will allow independent developers and ISVs to develop Components and Controls that extend the functionality of the NOV Cross-Platform Presentation Layer.
Have you developed a component or something that extends the NOV functionality? Submit your work to the Nevron Team today.
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I really like the fact that standard windows icons are provided with the NOV Ribbon example, avoiding the need to recreate the wheel and giving a more professional appearance. Using the provided Visual Studio NOV solution, it is fairly straightforward to add custom icons with a few extra simple steps. The gallery of C# examples for all controls makes it easy to create custom layouts. For the handful of customizations I could not find in the examples or user forums, the tech support responses got me going within a day.
