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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!

Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 (MS VB 2005) allows Visual Basic programmers to create Windows applications for their end users fast. Visual Basic developers can extend the standard functionality available inside the Visual Basic 2005 IDE with a variety of VB 2005 add-ins and VB 2005 tools. The extensibility of Visual Basic software is one of the main reasons it has proved to be so popular with .NET developers, as Visual Basic software engineers can find VB 2005 downloads from other companies or other developers to act as a VB extension to their Visual Basic 2005 IDE.

The versatility of Visual Basic also extends to various forms of Visual Basic 2005 compatible software components. VB 2005 controls can be used to create feature rich Visual Basic user interfaces on forms and Web pages for Visual Basic apps. These Visual Basic UI controls are augmented by non-visual Visual Basic 2005 components that can help a developer add many hidden features to Visual Basic 2005 applications running in the background. These non-visual components are commonly available as a VB 2005 library, Visual Basic 2005 Class library or as a Visual Basic 2005 component.

An example of a visual VB 2005 control is TeeChart for .NET, a VB 2005 ASP.NET control and a VB 2005 WinForm control enabling you to add complex VB charting and VB graphing functionality to your latest Visual Basic 2005 project. A non-visual Visual Basic 2005 component example is a Visual Basic 2005 .NET Class called IP*Works! that allows you to enable functions such as: sending email, transferring files, managing networks, browsing the web, consuming web services using Internet protocols such as: FTP, HTTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, LDAP, DNS, RSS, SMS, Jabber, SOAP, WebDav, RAS, XML and more.

The VB 2005 software products listed in this Visual Basic 2005 product gallery will allow you to save a lot of time and effort in creating your new Visual Basic 2005 app. Whether you are looking for a Visual Basic 2005 plug-in or Visual Basic 2005 utility, or you are looking for a VB 2005 control or a VB 2005 component, you will be able to find a wide variety of Visual Basic 2005 tools to help you finish your project faster. Many of the products listed here have free Visual Basic 2005 trials available as a VB 2005 download from our Visual Basic 2005 marketplace.

We also have other Visual Basic product galleries for: Visual Basic 2010, Visual Basic 2008, Visual Basic .NET and Visual Basic compatible products.