Benefits for .NET Developers, Project Managers, and Partners- Nevron Open Vision for .NET

Nevron Open Vision - everyone benefits from using the NOV GUI Toolkit.

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:

For Developers

For Project Managers

For Partners

Gain Reusable Knowledge and Source Code

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.

Gain Tangible Knowledge

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.

Based on Open Standards

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.

Crafted by Professionals

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.

Eliminate Platform Selection Risk

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.

Target More Clients

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.

Decrease Development Costs

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!

Eliminate the Porting Costs

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.

Increase Your Application Life Cycle

"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.

One Presentation Layer, One Code Base, One Vendor

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.

For Developers

Gain Reusable Knowledge

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.