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. Button Controls - C/C++ Button Controls allow you to create push buttons for your applications to replace the Windows button control to create visually enhanced buttons with a variety of different styles, shapes and capabilities. |
| 2. Database APIs & Connectivity - These components provide the developer with an API through which they can implement data access operations. The products vary according to the types of database (SQL Srrver, Oracle, MySQL, MS Access, BDE) , the types of access (Admin, User, programmatic, visual) and the mechanism (ODBC, JDBC, ADO, JET etc). |
| 3. Debugging & Profiling - Use profilers to help track down performance bottlenecks and the causes of errors in your code. |
| 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. Email - The Email page lists all Email components, controls, libraries and objects for .Net, ASP.NET, ActiveX, Java, Delphi. Our Email products cover Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), Post Office Protocol (POP3) and Internet Messgae Access protocol (IMAP4). We have products for both client and server ends of the connection. |
| 6. 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. |
| 7. FTP & SFTP - These C++ FTP classes allow you to add support for the Internet standard File Transfer Protocol to your C++ applications. This standard covers the management and movement of files across the Internet. We have both FTP client and FTP server products and some products cover Secure FTP (SFTP). |
| 8. 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. |
| 9. Image Processing - With these products you will be able to add impage processing functionality to your applications whether client or web server based. |
| 10. Tab & Tabstrip Controls - 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. |
