Top 10 Developer Tools & Software Components

Welcome to the Dev Direct Top 10 Products - our most visited products over the last 30 days. This list is updated every weekday morning.



1. Sonic Calendar Activex Control - SWJ Soft   Give the users a splendid look and feel of their years with Sonic Calendar Activex Control. Easy one click selection of the desired date and proffessional appearence provide your applications the access to more than a Life Time selection of date. Easy loading and high speed navigation through mouse clicks
Publisher's Website: Sonic ActiveX 

2. eXCalendar - eXontrol   The ExCalendar Library contains two ActiveX controls, simple version and drop-down version that allows you to select a date. You can select the date between 1/1/100 and 12/31/9999, Both versions support images, colors, font attributes, tooltips for any date. The ExCalendar library lets the user changes its visual appearance using skins, each one providing an additional visual experience that enhances viewing pleasure. Skins are relatively easy to build and put on any part of the control.
Publisher's Website: www.exontrol.com 

3. ComponentOne Studio® for ActiveX - ComponentOne   ComponentOne Studio® for ActiveX brings you the most popular and accomplished ActiveX components, including commercial-grade True DBGrid®, VSFlexGrid®, reporting, charting, and UI components.
Publisher's Website: http://www.componentone.com 

4. novaPDF (SDK) - Softland   novaPDF SDK is a PDF software development kit that can be used by software developers and programmers to include the ability to create PDF files in their own applications. It contains a COM interface for customizing novaPDF options, a silent installer for novaPDF that can be distributed with your software, novaPDF SDK documentation and code samples.
Publisher's Website: www.novaPDF.com 

5. ActiveReports - GrapeCity   ActiveReports is the Award-winning .NET reporting tool of choice for the world's best applications for over a decade. Key features include unmatched customization, fast performance, super high quality, and multilanguage features — all battle-tested in tens of thousands of applications worldwide. ActiveReports features an easy-to-use Visual Studio .NET report designer and a powerful API that’s been a long-time favorite of .NET developers. ActiveReports features royalty free run-time deployment.
Publisher's Website: us.grapecity.com 

6. BCL easyPDF SDK - BCL Technologies   BCL easyPDF SDK is a comprehensive PDF programming toolkit designed to help you develop powerful PDF server and PDF desktop applications. In most cases, 3 to 15 lines of codes are all it takes to complete your PDF programming project: 1|Set oPrinter = CreateObject("easyPDF.Printer.6") 2|Set oPrintJob = oPrinter.PrintJob 3|oPrintJob.PrintOut "C:\input.doc", "C:\output.pdf"
Publisher's Website: www.bcltechnologies.com 

7. wPDFControl - WPCubed GmbH   Use this powerful DLL to create full-featured PDF files directly from your application. Can be used for .NET or in Visual Basic. The underlying PDF engine wPDF is well-established and widely used - wPDFControl makes this engine available for VB, VC, .NET etc. wPDFControl can be used a PDF OCX, in Visual Fox Pro (PDF VFP) as versatile PDF solution. wPDFControl creates compact PDF files.
Publisher's Website: www.wpcubed.com 

8. FlowChartX control - MindFusion LLC   FlowChartX is an ActiveX control providing applications with the ability to create and present various kinds of diagrams. A few to mention are workflow, flowchart, process, database entity relationship diagrams, organizational, hierarchy and network charts, graphs and trees. Diagram elements, such as boxes and tables, can be attached one to another to form complex structures. There are 87 stock shapes available and custom ones can be defined too.
Publisher's Website: www.mindfusion.eu 

9. Black Ice Printer Drivers - Black Ice Software   The Black Ice printer drivers are highly optimized, feature rich document conversion tools which allows application developers & system integrators to harness cutting edge document conversion technology. Any printable file can be converted into an image file such as TIFF, JPEG, PDF, EMF and more. The Black Ice printer drivers support all available Windows platforms, Citrix & Termiinal Servers. All of the Black Ice printer drivers are Royalty Free.
Publisher's Website: www.BlackIce.com 

10. DynamicPDF Generator for COM/ActiveX - ceTe Software   DynamicPDF™ Generator for COM/ActiveX is a highly efficient and easy to use class library for the dynamic creation of PDF documents based on dynamic data. PDF documents can be saved to disk, output to a Byte array or output directly to IIS's output stream. The generated PDF documents are 100% compatible with PDF version 1.4 and 1.5 and comply with the PDF specification as published by Adobe.
Publisher's Website: www.cete.com