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.
2. Drawing & CAD - Use these products to build applications with drawing capabilities including building images programatically and enabling users to create and view Computer Aided Design (CAD) drawings. See also our Graphics and Imaging classifications and Diagrams, Diagramming.
3. 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.
4. FTP & SFTP - These Delphi FTP components allow you to add support for the Internet standard File Transfer Protocol to your Delphi 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).
5. Graph & Chart - Our summary of Delphi graphing and charting components to help you to build applications that produce charts and graphs from statistical, finincial, engineering, scientific and other numeric data. Delphi VCL graph controls 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.
6. Grid - Delphi Datagrid Grid Controls and Grid Components for Delphi 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.
7. Multimedia, Audio & Video - Enable your application to handle audio and video with our multimedia components. Rip CD's to MP3, convert file formats to WAV, burn CD's. Handle audio playback, control volume and tone. Capture, edit and playback video.
8. PDF - These tools enable the developer to build applications that can create and manipulate documents in the Adobe Acrobat PDF format. See also Document - Conversion
9. 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.
10. Word Processing & Rich Text Editing - Provide a WYSIWYG text editor in your app, which includes formating of fonts, paragraphs and tables along with all the other functions that you would expect of a word processor.