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. Calendar, Date & Time - Enable users to enter dates and times easily with drop down calendars, clocks, day, month, week, year views and date selectors. These controls are ideal for all calendaring and scheduling applications. This page contails all calendar components for .net, ActiveX, java and Delphi.
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. Graph & Chart - Graphing and charting controls - build applications that produce charts and graphs from statistical, finincial, engineering, scientific and other numeric data. Our components 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 - 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. Image Acquisition - These products enable the application to perform scanning, screen recording and other image capture functions. Interface with a TWAIN scanner or other image acquisition devices (e.g. digital camera, DV video camera) and offer the end user various control and post processing functions.
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. Scheduling & Diary - Scheduling components enable develpers to create applications with task scheduling and diary management fetures. These products go beyond presentation logic and extend to business logic relating to the management of the schedule.
10. Tab & Tabstrip - 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.