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. Code Obfuscation - Protect the intellectual property contained in your source code and PCode whilst improving the performance of your application by running it through an obfuscator. Remove comments, change variable names and generally make them more difiicult to decompile and reverse engineer. |
| 3. Discussion Forum - Enable application users to participate in discussions within your application. Host multiple discusion topics and threads in moderated and unmoderated forums. |
| 4. 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 |
| 5. 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. |
| 6. 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. |
| 7. 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. |
| 8. 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. |
| 9. Reporting, Report Writers - |
| 10. Spreadsheet - Add advanced spreadsheet capababilities to your applications. Perform calculations, reference cells with relative and absolute addressing, perform formatting, handle multiple worksheets. |
