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. Debugging & Profiling - Use profilers to help track down performance bottlenecks and the causes of errors in your code.
2. Dockable Windows - These .Net controls enable you to add dockable windows such as those found in Visual Studio to your .Net applications. Docking panels, panes or windows can have properties such as tear-off tabs, MDI tabbs, autohide and pinning.
3. 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
4. FTP & SFTP - These .Net FTP products allow you to add support for the Internet standard File Transfer Protocol to your .Net 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. 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.
6. Grid Controls - .Net Datagrid Grid Controls and .Net Winforms Grid Components for software .Net 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. Image Processing - With these products you will be able to add impage processing functionality to your applications whether client or web server based.
8. Reporting, Report Writers -
9. Tree & Treeview - Manage, display and navigate heirachical data with a tree or treeview component. The tree control page contains all treeview controls for.net, ASP.Net, active X, Delphi and Java
10. User Interface Collections - The user interface suites page lists all GUI component and control suites for .Net, ASP.NET, ActiveX, Java, Delphi.