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What is a software component? Software components or UI controls are pre-built software libraries or code libraries that you can use in your software application to quickly add new functionality. When you use a software component previously written by yourself, you are reusing your own code and saving time, plus you gain the benefits of using a modular approach to your software design or architecture, that will hopefully give you other quality and efficiency benefits.

When you use a software component or UI control pre-written by an expert in that area or field of study, you are not only saving time and effort, you are also adding high quality functionality to your application - fast. Features that were difficult for you to code, as you do not have the pre-requisite skills or knowledge, can now be easily added. With software components you can rapidly add new functions to your app and at the same time hit your project deadlines or gain time to market for a new product! Plus, if you are using a pre-built software component written by an industry expert, you may also gain in quality and performance terms as well.

In this commercial software component gallery you will find over 1,700 components or controls for your next software project that have been written by industry experts who are specialists in their field. So whether you are looking for software ActiveX controls for a mature VB project now under maintenance or for .Net controls, ASP controls or a C# component for a more up to date .NET Framework project or Web site built using ASP then you have come to the best commercial grade software component marketplace in the world.

As well as an ActiveX component product zone and a comprehensive .Net components product listing full of .NET datagrids, .NET chart and other .NET UI control products, you will also find product galleries full of Delphi controls (VCLs). Plus there are VB & VC++ class libraries, DLL object based products and even some Static Link Library products too.

ComponentSource not only has Microsoft components such as: ASP.NET controls; DLL library based products or .NET component UI products, we also have a Flash component gallery with Flash components and Flex components. For example, you will find Flash buttons for your user interface or a Flash chart for your Flash UI and some of the latest products that support Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4 from Adobe. Plus we have Java components and Java libraries available for a variety of visual and non-visual tasks, implemented as JavaBeans, Java Classes, as Enterprise JavaBeans and as Java Class libraries.

So hopefully you will find a commercial grade, quality software component or UI control that will meet your component programming or object design needs. If you don't, why don't you write that software component or library yourself? Then ask us to sell it for you!

What is Eclipse? Eclipse is a software development environment that can be enhanced and extended using Eclipse plugins. These Eclipse plug-ins and the Eclipse architecture means that a variety of development language IDEs exist that allow you to program on top of the Eclipse platform using: Java, C++, C, Python, Ruby, Perl, PHP and COBOL. An Eclipse plugin can be viewed as an Eclipse extension or Eclipse component that adds functionality to the the standard Eclipse tools or to your Eclipse application.

In this filtered view of our main product catalog you will find a variety of Eclipse tools, Eclipse libraries, Eclipse extensions and Eclipse plug-in products. In this Eclipse marketplace you are able to search for: Eclipse tools, compare Eclipse products, find Eclipse downloads, evaluate Eclipse tools or Eclipse components, read Eclipse reviews from other Eclipse developers, compare Eclipse products and in general look for the Eclipse utility, Eclipse plugin or Eclipse addin that meets your needs.

There is also an Eclipse Product News page, with an Eclipse RSS News feed for you to subscribe to, to keep up to date with all the latest commercial Eclipse News about products and new Eclipse releases.