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In this area of our product catalog you will find Windows developers tools and Windows utilities that will help you with almost every aspect of Windows software development. These Windows software development tools will help you with: designing, modeling, coding, unit testing, performance testing, deploying and maintaining your Windows software application. As well as complete Windows IDEs, there are Windows developer tools for version control and also software build or compilation tools to help you in reliably building new releases of your Windows application software. There are also Windows documentation tools, issue tracking and help desk tools that allow you to cover almost every aspect of the Windows Software Development Life-Cycle (SDLC).

There are also Windows IT utilities for Windows IT Pros, like: Systems Administrators (Sys Admins), Network Administrators (Network Admins) and Database Administrators (DB Admins) to use. For example, we have Windows database tools, like database backup utilities to make sure you are backing up your MSFT SQL Server database reliably, Windows db tools to speed up data maintenance tasks on SQL Server databases and database utilities to compare data schemas in Oracle databases prior to live deployment. We have an extensive range of Windows XML tools, to help you manage your XML based data files. For Windows SysAdmins there are Windows software packaging and deployment tools to help you manage and distribute your Windows software packages across your organization and for SharePoint Admins, there are SharePoint tools to help you monitor the Audit logs from your SharePoint server farm.

For technical writers, technical authors, we have a wide selection of Windows help authoring tools to help you create basic Windows help files, right through to full on-line published or Web based integrated software documentation and self-help systems for users. These range for basic help generators for Windows developers looking to create basic on-line help systems and user guides at the end of a project, through to sophisticated modern documentation tools that take a capture, document and share or collaborative approach to creation on-line documentation.

The Windows Dev Tools & Windows IT Utilities catalog is split into 9 sub-categories based on compatibility: Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 9X/ME and Windows 3.x, as well as Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 and Windows NT.

For all the Windows tools listed here you can: find, compare, download, review, try and buy the Windows dev tools and Windows IT utilities from our Web site. If you are interested in News about Windows DevTools we also have many Windows Tools News RSS feeds that you can subscribe to, to help keep you up to date with all the latest Windows RAD Tool or Windows SDLC Tool releases in your specific area of interest.

The Microsoft software platform provides Microsoft developers with an array of Microsoft tools to create solutions for their customers and end users. The Microsoft applications that programmers develop can be created using the MS Visual Studio range of Microsoft development tools, including: MS Visual Basic; MS Visual C# (C-sharp); MS Visual C++ (C Plus Plus), as well as older MS dev languages and MS IDEs, such as MS Visual FoxPro. MS Visual Studio, the Microsoft .NET Framework and the more mature Microsoft COM platform can be extended to provide additional functionality to help MS developers create solutions faster. For example, there is a Microsoft add-in model that allows a Microsoft tool to be extended by other third-party companies, as long as they comply with the Microsoft addin model. As a result you can get a Microsoft extension for Visual Studio to refactor your Visual Basic code to make it easier to read or maintain and to speed up your coding by helping with code layout.  Many Visual Studio add-ins are available, including add ins to do C# code generation for you, giving you a faster way to create an application from scratch.

Microsoft Visual Studio software can also be extended beyond the Microsoft controls and Microsoft components that are supplied within the Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment (VS IDE) to give additional functionality. You can get Microsoft .NET components from companies that specialize in writing Internet communications components or eCommerce components that can be programmed like any other Microsoft component and save you a vast amount of time and money in programming your next Microsoft project. Or you can get an advanced Microsoft control for charting that enables you to draw many more styles of charts and graphs than are available inside the standard Microsoft controls in Visual Studio. These Microsoft components are available in many different forms as: Microsoft DLLs or as a Microsoft library, or as a Microsoft ActiveX or COM component supporting the COM object model or for the .NET Framework as Microsoft WinForms controls or ASP.NET controls, or as Microsoft WPF controls for Windows Presentation Foundation applications or as Silverlight controls for Microsoft Silverlight developers to use.

In this Microsoft marketplace you will find lots of different MS UI controls, as well as non-visual components, Microsoft utilities and Microsoft plug-ins to help you program in Microsoft Visual Basic, Visual C++ & Visual C#. You will also find Microsoft visual tools written by ISVs that can be used by MS Access developers or by MS Office programmers as Office components to be embedded inside their MS VBA or VSTO apps. There are also SharePoint tools and SharePoint Web Parts for MOSS bases apps being created by SharePoint developers. Plus for SQL Server you will find Microsoft utility products that allow you to access or bind to your data sources, compare data, manage your data, backup your data efficiently and much more. There are over 1,800 commercial products compatible with Microsoft software shown here in this Microsoft product gallery and many come with free downloads or free software trials for you to use listed in our Microsoft downloads product pages.