Stamina Software is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Visage Designer 7.20

Stamina Software is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Visage Designer 7.20, the thin client ultra-RAD development environment that makes migration from "green screen" to "seen screen" child's play. This major upgrade has been over 12 months in the making, and includes 100's of customer driven enhancements, with major focuses on speed and rock solid stability.

For highly secure environments, V7.20 allows complete end-to-end data encryption via HTTPS client connections to the web server, and optional SSH connections through to your multi-valued database. Connection pooling has also been enhanced to enable a single pool to service multiple database accounts, which is essential for delivering ASP style solutions to the market.

Visage Server configurations can now be saved & restored as XML files, making it easy to extend server farms, or replicate environments for testing and disaster recovery scenarios. The Visage Management Console offers finer control over web server caching and data stream compression, and with more screen and process details stored as static XML, this translates to improved performance for a deployed application.

Windows Vista is fully supported as a client, and also a web server with IIS7, and v7.20 has also been verified with the latest Beta Windows 2008 (Longhorn) server platform.

The client runtime environment has been re-engineered and extended, though the API is fully backwards compatible with v7.x applications, and is identical for both IE & Firefox clients (and the various "bugs" that emerge with version and operating system platform changes). Automatic mandatory field highlighting has been enhanced, and a new fast messagebox facility is available.

The Screen Designer is now even faster and more intuitive than before, with improved IFrame, Tree & Tab controls, a new media player widget, and now allows filters to be applied dynamically rather than having to pre-define them. The maintenance of multi-lingual error messages which can be accessed from client script can now also be done for specific pages within the designer.

An improved, and deceptively simple role based security system has been introduced, as well as support for multiple time zones, and enhancements to the incremental application patch & packaging capabilities. Full menu & application based distribution packages can also be produced Webpage persistent web