Welcome to the May edition of the Dev Direct Software Developer Newsletter
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Active Up provide a range of .Net components to help you build better web based applications. HTML Text Box a WYSIWYG HTML editor, Active Email for all email protocols, Active Pager for multi-page data presentation, Active Calendar for easy date selection and Active DateTime for client-side validated date/time selection.
SocketTools is a collection of TCP/IP networking APIs providing client interfaces for the major application protocols such as the File Transfer Protocol, Hypertext Transfer Protocol, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, Domain Name Service and Telnet. Use it to develop applicaitons that can comminucate via the Internet. SocketTools comes in Library (DLL) and Visual (OCX) editions and both are available as Standard or Secure (encrypted).
Gnostice eDocEngine
ActiveX/.NET is a generic electronic document creation component suite
available in ActiveX/.Net or Native VCL versions. Gnostice PDFtoolkit provides
a control that you can place on your form and connect it up to the document you
want to manage, alter, or organize and is available in ActiveX or Native VCL
versions.
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This month’s product releases
ComponentOne Studio Enterprise includes components from
four Studio subscriptions delivering you over 100 components for .NET, ASP.NET,
ActiveX, and Mobile Devices. This subscription delivers the latest components,
new releases, updates and upgrades, and email and online support for one full
year from your date of purchase.
XtraReports was written in C# and offers full Visual
Studio .NET integration - giving you the ability to design reports in the same
exact way as you build Windows(r) Forms applications. XtraReports uses the same
code editor (C#, VB.NET or J#), the same Property Grid, the same component
Toolbox, the same alignment toolbar, and ALL available Visual Studio IDE
resources - so that you can fully leverage your existing skills and expertise
within Visual Studio.
Let’s Java and C++ developers add dtSearch’s
"industrial-strength" (PC Magazine) text retrieval to Linux applications. Has
dtSearch’s indexed, unindexed & fielded data search options. Has
hit-highlighted file displays (for PDF, XML & HTML, with images & links).
Built-in HTML converters for "Office," ZIP, database & other popular file
types.
3D Control Magic for .NET is the ultimate 3D control
component developed with the purpose of replacing some of the old fashioned
Windows User Interface flat controls in applications written with Visual
Studio.NET 3D Control Magic is not only an enhanced alternative PushButton
control but a suite of 9 different controls which can be used as greatly
enhanced alternatives to standard Windows common controls.
Report Sharp-Shooter is a royalty-free report building
engine for .NET, capable of creating complex reports from multiple data sources
and featuring various report export options. The package is 100% .NET
compatible and features support for ADO.NET hierarchical data model, WinForms
and ASP.NET web forms, as well as C#/VB.NET scripting support. The professional
version comes with the source code! Get your free trial version now!
Apoc PDF Toolkit is a high quality software component
that developers can add to their applications in order to manipulate existing
PDF documents and create new PDF documents. Developed using Microsoft's .NET
environment, this 100% managed code toolkit is compatible with any .NET
application such as ASP.NET applications, Windows applications and Console
applications.
Crystal Reports Distributor is an application for
Windows that saves time and money by making it easy to define single or
packages of Crystal reports, schedule and run them automatically, and send the
reports to print, fax, disk, or email in a number of standard formats. Simply
set up a schedule stating how often you would like each report to run, whether
you'd like the output in Word, Excel, HTML, RTF, Acrobat, RPT, text format, and
more and who it should be sent to.
DotNetBar Suite provides Office 2003 / OfficeXP / Office
2000 like menus and toolbars, OfficeXP like Task Panes and Auto-Hide Tabbed
Dockable Windows for your .NET Windows Forms applications. DotNetBar also
includes the Outlook style Side-bar control, WinXP style Explorer-bar control,
TabStrip Control, Balloon control and Alert Control, Navigation Pane control
and Navigation Bar control. Full support for WinXP Themes and first to offer
Office 2003 like Style. DotNetBar is native .NET component.
GbSchedule.NET is a general-purpose scheduler designed
for most scheduling needs. It supports dates, times, rooms, providers, and
categories. It allows you to add full drag-and-drop scheduling to any .NET
application.
Hunny MIME++ is a portable, C++ class library for
creating, parsing, and modifying messages in MIME format. Whatever your use of
MIME: email, unified messaging, wireless messaging, or compound documents,
Hunny MIME++ has the power and flexibility you need. Hunny MIME++ is written in
portable C++ code that compiles on Windows, WinCE, Unix and Linux. A unique
feature of Hunny MIME++ is its object model, which offers the most intuitive
yet powerful MIME API anywhere.
DockStudioXP provides you with the ability to deliver
Visual Studio.NET, Office 200/XP/2000 or Office 2003 style toolbars and
dockable windows. If you have evaluated other toolbar, splitter or docking
controls in the past, you will immediately appreciate the value of the Visual
layout designer, comprehensive runtime customisation features and the Visual
Studio.NET style docking windows support.
FlowChart.NET is a .NET component that helps you create
and present workflow, flowchart and process diagrams, database
entity-relationship diagrams, organizational, hierarchy and relationship
charts, network schemes, graphs, and trees.
Organization Chart .NET (WebOrgChart .NET) is an
application used to create corporate organizational charts based on personnel
information from a Database directly to your Intranet or Extranet. It allows
you to automatically examine your current employee’s information in the
outlined in an organization chart.
Active Calendar is an ASP.NET server control that allows
users to select a date and/or time quickly using a professional looking date
picker with a client-side managed event system. No postback to the server
required, no external script file required. Active Calendar includes the Active
DateTime technology. You can disable the visible calendar format and simply use
the Active DateTime component of Active Calendar to provide a date/time
selector group with client-side validation.
SocketTools is a collection of TCP/IP networking
components and libraries for the Windows operating system. The SocketTools
product comes in several different editions, depending on the needs of the
developer and the language or scripting tool being used. The SocketTools Secure
Editions are available for all Intel-based 32-bit platforms, including Windows
98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
Flash Decompiler delivers power to extract all resources
from a SWF file (Macromedia Flash file). Flash Decompiler is the fastest and
most reliable flash extractor on the net. With an ease of one click you can
store sounds, images, videos, shapes, frames, morphs, fonts, texts, buttons,
sprites and ActionScripts from any SWF file directly to your hard drive.
Intellectual item-by-item preview, user-friendly controls with
fully-customizable interface.
Deliver general purpose and specialized 2- and
3-dimensional charts as applets or interactive server-generated images (PNG,
GIF, JEG, SWF, SVG, PDF, TIF, WBMP) to web browsers and mobile devices, or
embed charts into stand-alone Swing applications. WebCharts3D software includes
WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) designer that can be easily incorporated
into your own applications to provide your end-users with chart editing
capabilities.
Active Query allows you to include end user oriented SQL
query builder into your application. Your users get the ultimate ability to
build their own queries and it is not necessary for them to understand your
database design or tables relationships. They do not see real tables and field
names and see only the table names and field descriptions you allow them to
see.
If your development platform is Borland® Delphi™, C++Builder™, or Kylix™, then TsiLang Components Suite
brings you the power solution for multilingual localization of your software.
TsiLang Components Suite will enable your programs to support as many languages
(locales) as you want. It allows to localize all required elements of user
interface, provides flexible modes to store and manage translations, and
switches UI language on-the-fly.
SmartDraw is the easy-to-use Windows software for
creating business diagrams, technical drawings, and business documents.
SmartDraw requires no artistic talent—users simply drag and drop ready-made
graphic elements to create professional-looking diagrams quickly and easily.
SmartDraw offers complete business graphics solutions—integrated sets of
symbols, templates, instructions, and tutorials - for many standard business
problems.
Visualize and manipulate a set of categorized
property-value pairs with this advanced property list control. It's compact,
easy to use visual interface allows manipulation of a variety of data types
including text, number, date, font, color, file name, folder, value lists to
name a few. Complete customizability of the colors, font and text of UI
elements of the control allows its use with non-english language as well.
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Twenty percent saving on Socket Tools V4.0 (New Version) by Catalyst Development.
Pay fifteen percent less for eDocEngine and PDFtoolkit by Gnostice.
