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 - ASP.Net Calendar Controls 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. |
| 2. 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 |
| 3. Document Generation - Enable your application to create documents in native file formats such as MS Word, RTF and XLS. See also our PDF Components. |
| 4. File Handling - Perform a varietry of file manipulations using these components. From simple file enumerations, copy and rename type commands to file comparison and file property access. |
| 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. 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. |
| 7. Image Processing - With these products you will be able to add impage processing functionality to your applications whether client or web server based. |
| 8. Printing - These components enable the application to deliver a printed representation of data. Some provide representations of UI elements such as grids, others provide a form representation. |
| 9. Reporting, Report Writers - |
| 10. Tab & Tabstrip - Our Tab Controls and Tab Components allow developers to go beyond native tab capabilities with more styling options and extended capabilities. The Tabstrip paradigm enables you to switch contexts and group the data on your forms for a better user interface. |








