Top 10 Developer Tool Categories

Welcome to the Dev Direct Top 10 developer tool and software component categories - our most visited categories over the last 30 days. This list is updated every weekday morning.


1. Document Conversion - Components which enable the application to convert documents from one format to another. For example from MS Word format to plain text, or from PDF to HTML. See also PDF Documents
2. File Upload/Download - Transfer files from host to host or from web pages to servers via HTTP and FTP. The file upload/download page lists all file upload and file download components, controls, libraries and objects for .Net, ASP.NET, ActiveX, Java, Delphi.
3. Graphs & Charting - A selection of graphing and charting products to help you to build applications that produce charts and graphs from statistical, finincial, engineering, scientific and other numeric data. Our products for .NET, COM, VCL and Java can produce all types of business and scientific graphs and charts, including: Line graphs, bar charts, scatter graphs, polar charts. For organisation, flow and workflow diagrams, see Diagrams, Diagramming.
4. Grid Controls - A range of Datagrid Grid Controls and Grid Components for software developers. Grid controls facilitate tabular two dimensional data layout similar to a speadsheets or a database tables with rows and columns. Features include customizable layout, heirarchical data organisation, row and column grouping, data binding, data caching, sorting, subtotaling, parent/child one-to-many relationships. Also specific look and feel emulation such as Outlook, Access and Excel. The grid control & grid component page lists all controls, components, libraries & classes for .Net, ASP.NET, ActiveX, Java, Delphi.
5. HTML & Text Editing - Enable users of your applications to perform word processing, edit text and HTML within your application. Also use these components to develop content management applications for your web site. The HTML editing and word processing page lists all HTML and Rich Text editing controls and components for all platforms - .Net, ASP.NET, ActiveX, Java, Delphi.
6. Image Processing - With these products you will be able to add impage processing functionality to your applications whether client or web server based.
7. PDF View - Display Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files within your applications using these contols and libraries. Render PDF files to screen just as they would appear if viewed with Adobe Acrobat Reader.
8. Reporting, Report Writers -
9. Tab & Tabstrip Controls - Our Tab Controls and Tab Components allow you to quickly add tabs to your GUI. Tabs with more styling options, extended capabilities and enhanced APIs. The Tabstrip paradigm enables you to put more data on a sinlge form, switch contexts and group the data on your forms for a better user interface.
10. Tree & Treeview - Manage, display and navigate heirachical data with a tree or treeview component. The tree control page contains all treeview controls for.net, ASP.Net, active X, Delphi and Java