WildTower Solutions was formed in November 2001 as an independent R&D department for small Independent Software Vendors.\u00a0 Two products were previously managed by WildTower: Flynet Viewer (now renamed Inventu Viewer+) and Screensurfer.\u00a0 In its role as a behind-the-scenes development shop, WildTower provided a full suite of R&D capabilities targeted to delivering high quality software as well as documentation and educational materials, including online tutorial videos.\u00a0 This work has mostly been moved to Inventu Corporation, where Bill Thorne is 100% owner.<\/p>\n
Bill Thorne, WildTower’s founder, started his career in 1977 as an IBM Systems Engineer in Burlington, Vermont.\u00a0 In August of 1979, Bill bought his first house: a “winterized camp” far out on a point surrounded by Lake Champlain. The camp had an attached four story tower<\/strong> which featured a deck on top with no railings but spectacular views. It was Bill’s first wild tower, but not his last…<\/p>\n Wildtower provided R&D, documentation, marketing and support services for the Flynet Viewer product, sold by a company named Flynet in the UK\u00a0and Inventu Corporation<\/a>.\u00a0 Flynet Viewer is now named Inventu Viewer+ which is exclusively available from Inventu.<\/p>\n Inventu Viewer is a product family providing the industries best Web-Based Terminal Emulator as well as Microsoft .NET integration with screen-based host systems. For more information on the FVTerm Web Terminal Emulator service see https:\/\/software.inventu.com\/help\/html\/FSVmain\/<\/a>\u00a0and for more information on the development tools see https:\/\/software.inventu.com\/help\/html\/fvstudio\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n Inventu Viewer components include\u00a0Win32 C<\/strong> (core service), c# .NET classes<\/strong> (API) and a number of developer tools constructed using c# and Visual Studio WinForm development<\/strong>.\u00a0 Code Generation is augmented with a special CodeSmith<\/strong> license. ASP.NET Web Services and Web Applications<\/strong> are modeled in a generated framework all through\u00a0over one hundred CodeSmith templates<\/strong>. Documentation is produced using the Help & Manual<\/strong> product, targeting both Windows Help (CHM) and Web delivery (above links all built using Help & Manual).\u00a0 Installation programs are a mix of InstallShield and custom MSI construction and packaging tools.\u00a0 Newer development includes a comprehensive Visual Studio Add-In<\/strong> compatible with Visual Studio 2019 including custom installers\u00a0built with the\u00a0WIX<\/strong> tools.<\/p>\n Wildtower currently provides R&D, documentation, marketing and support services for the Screensurfer product, sold by\u00a0the Inventu Corporation<\/a>.<\/p>\n ScreenSurfer<\/a> is a versatile web-to-host application server in use throughout the Americas and Europe. Development of ScreenSurfer as a product (and a business) was performed by Bill on an entrepreneurial basis within iE (www.ie.com<\/a>),\u00a0where he was head of U.S. technical operations.\u00a0 The Screensurfer team eventually grew to include two developers, two pre\/post sales technical staff and a documentation specialist.\u00a0During the tech-wreck, mounting financial pressures at iE forced the closure of their U.S. operations, requiring that the ScreenSurfer business unit be spun-off. The ScreenSurfer unit was eventually acquired by Ives Development (now know as Teamstudio) in the Summer of\u00a02001. Following a successful hand-over of the Screensurfer codebase to the Teamstudio development team (and the 9\/11 mini-recession), Bill was quickly transitioned by the entrenched executives of Teamstudio to the role of independent consultant and entrepreneur. From that moment forward, the Screensurfer product suffered rapidly declining sales and the sales and support department was subsequently discontinued in 2003.\u00a0 At the end of 2003, Bill and Jeff Urbanczyk (formerly a member of the original Screensurfer team at iE) acquired the Screensurfer product and customers from Teamstudio, forming the Inventu Corporation<\/a>\u00a0where Bill is the President and now 100% owner.<\/p>\n Screensurfer’s core is\u00a0Win32 C code<\/strong>, with its own custom HTTP server engine<\/strong> (custom web server) and its own scripting language<\/strong>, which\u00a0was modeled after\u00a0the ColdFusion CFML language (at the time Screensurfer was invented, ColdFusion was THE way to build web sites!).\u00a0 The help is a mix of hand-edited HTML and\u00a0Javascript<\/strong>\u00a0and RoboHelp PDF’s developed by a TeamStudio documentation specialist.\u00a0 Installation is managed using InstallShield tools.<\/p>\n A great deal of Screensurfer delivered functionality is also implemented as HTML and Javascript<\/strong>.<\/p>\n WildTower has experience in producing a variety of development tools targeting productivity in difficult environments (screen-scraping, which is generally hated for its difficulty).\u00a0 While implementing these tools, which bridge from the old to the new, we have kept abreast of the latest technologies and are able to assist in the creation of new products which may require:<\/p>\n WildTower Company Background WildTower Solutions was formed in November 2001 as an independent R&D department for small Independent Software Vendors.\u00a0 Two products were previously managed by WildTower: Flynet Viewer (now renamed Inventu Viewer+) and Screensurfer.\u00a0 In its role as a … Continue reading Inventu Viewer+<\/h2>\n
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