Visual Basic (Controls & Components, Tools & Add-ins)

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Janus GridEX by Janus Systems

Average Review: based on 20 reviews.

Best Grid on Market. I love it.
FarPoint Spread 8 COM by GrapeCity

Average Review: based on 5 reviews.

A very fully-featured and easy to implement component. The only things that prevent me from awarding 5-stars are: 1) There is very little documentation regarding use of the component from within a 64-bit program. 2) Having used the OCX version of the component, I expected going on to use the DLL version elsewhere would be simple...however the DLL function calls differ hugely from the OCX ones. ...
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ReSize OCX/.NET by Larcom and Young

Average Review: based on 5 reviews.

For vb6/com environments, this is fine - not needed for .net
Codejock Xtreme Suite Pro by Codejock Software

Average Review: based on 4 reviews.

Probably the best add on I have ever bought. The calendar and report controls are exquisite. This suite has to be the nearest thing to perfect I have ever used. Can't speak highly enough of this suite. I always wish that some one would post reviews worded in this way to get my attention......... so heads up. Don't overlook this suite.
WordController by Jumar Solutions

Average Review: based on 4 reviews.

We had originally implemented our own Printing DLL's using the MS-Word object model. We do complex mail merge for about 200 different documents. It took us months to understand how to do what we wanted to do, for all the different versions of Word. We couldn't just choose one version of the library to code with (as our clients use all the versions) so we were coding with late bound objects, a ni ...
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