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. Barcode - Use these controls to create, print, view, detect, and read barcodes from within your applications. Our range of barcoding products cover all of the major barcode symbologies. The barcoder component page contains barcode components for all platforms including .Net, Java, COM/ActiveX and VCL. |
| 2. Calendar, Date & Time - Java 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. |
| 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. Document Generation - Enable your application to create documents in native file formats such as MS Word, RTF and XLS. See also our PDF Components. |
| 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 - Our Java FTP classes allow you to add support for the Internet standard File Transfer Protocol to your Java 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. Grid Controls - Java Grid Controls and Datagrid Components for Java developers. Go beyond standard grids to deliver 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. |
| 10. HTML & Text Editing - Enable users of your applications to perform word processing, edit text and HTML within your application. Also use these components to develop content management applications for your web site. The HTML editing and word processing page lists all HTML and Rich Text editing controls and components for all platforms - .Net, ASP.NET, ActiveX, Java, Delphi. |
