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.NET Components and .NET Controls

What is a .NET component? .NET components are pre-built pieces of software that you can re-use within the Microsoft .NET Framework (pronounced dot net framework) to help you create your application faster and hopefully with fewer bugs. By re-using .NET software components you not only save time and money, but you also get the opportunity to use other people's expertise and knowledge that will give your app extra functionality and features - fast. In this filtered view of our product catalog you will only find .NET compatible products, these products include both .NET Components and .NET Controls as .NET downloads for you to try and buy.

What is a .NET Control? A .NET Control has a visual aspect and can be used on a form or Web page to control the behavior of the user interface, so the user of the app can use a .NET UI Control to: enter data, click on a button, select from items displayed on a drop down list, draw a chart or graph based on data that they have entered into a .NET datagrid control etc.

What is the difference between a .NET Component and a .NET Control?

A .NET Component does not always have to have a visual interface, for example a .NET Component could work behind the scenes on a server and be used to calculate the tax due on an invoice for goods sold to a customer or to create a PDF version of that invoice and then email it to the customer's email address. .NET Controls are User Interface (UI) controls and they are a subset of .NET Components and as such all .NET Controls are therefore .NET Components, however, the reverse is not true, a .NET Component is not also a .NET Control, as a .NET Component does not have to have a visual or visible interface and it does not have to appear on a Windows form, Web Form or Web page as part of the UI.

In this .NET Components marketplace you will find both .NET Controls and .NET Components - available as commercial grade, quality .NET software component products. You will find ASP.NET controls that you can use as an ASP.NET developer for your latest Web site or Intranet project, VB controls for your Visual Basic app and there are numerous VB .NET control products listed here as VB.NET Controls. If you are a C# developer looking for a C# component or C# controls you will also find a wide selection of C# .NET controls, C# .NET component products and .NET custom control products that will meet your needs.

The range of .NET Component and .NET Control products includes: .NET WinForm Controls, ASP.NET Controls, ASP.NET AJAX Controls, .NET Class Components or .NET Class Libraries, .NET Web Services, .NET Compact Framework (.NET CF) products for mobile & hand-held device apps, .NET LINQ Classes for data access, WPF Controls or Windows Presentation Foundation Controls and Silverlight Controls for the latest .NET Framework 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0 environments. Finally you will also find a special form of ASP.NET server control that can be used inside SharePoint, these are called Web Part Controls.

Our .NET component product range will give you a choice of controls for .NET, whether you are using them as a control in C# or as VB NET controls for your next VB project or in any other .NET development language or .NET based IDE that supports the use of .NET software components. There are well over 1,000 commercial grade, high quality .NET component based products available in this .NET component product gallery that you can search for, compare, download, review, try and buy!

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

Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (MS VB.NET) allows VB.NET programmers to create Windows applications for their end users fast. VB.NET developers can extend the standard functionality available inside the VB.NET IDE with a variety of VB.NET add-ins and VB.NET tools. The extensibility of VB.NET 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.NET downloads from other companies or other developers to act as a VB.NET extension to their VB.NET IDE.

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

An example of a visual VB.NET control is Janus GridEx for .NET, a VB.NET WinForm control that allows you to create an MS Outlook style or look and feel to your latest VB.NET project. A non-visual VB.NET component example is a Visual Basic compatible product that allows you to transfer files over the Internet via HTTP or FTP protocols, or to add further security by using the HTTPS protocol for transferring files in your VB.NET app.

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

We also have other Visual Basic product galleries for: Visual Basic 2010, Visual Basic 2008, Visual Basic 2005 and Visual Basic compatible products.

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Convert different engineering units automatically. GMSI.NET Unit Conversion Edit Box provides an advanced edit box style data entry for engineering applications. It will automatically convert between engineering units, allowing users to enter or view values in familiar units. The user can select the units to be displayed (i.e. Metric or English). The control recognizes common unit abbreviations such as "in" for "inches" or "PSI" as "Pounds per Square Inch". UCB also recognizes and converts decimal precision. Categories of unit conversion are: time, length, angle, speed, acceleration, area, mass, volume, density, pressure, force, and work.
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3. Xml2PDF

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Publisher: Altsoft Primary Category: Data Conversion Product Type: Component / .NET Class / 100% Managed Code

Convert your XML files (XSL-FO, SVG, Excel, Word 2003-2007, XHTML) to PDF, XPS, PS, TIFF etc. Xml2PDF is an engine (.NET API) for converting XSL-FO, SVG, XHTML and Microsoft Word (WordML 2003, DocX) documents into PDF, PS, XPS, and raster graphics (TIFF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WMF). Xml2PDF uses Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) as an XML parser and XSLT processor. Thus, any XSLT or XML feature implemented in this parser is automatically supported. Besides the standard XML syntax validation, Xml2PDF provides an additional XSL FO validation against the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.0, 1.1. Supported Input XML formats include: XSL-FO, SVG (both as a stand-alone input format and as a part of XSL-FO), XHTML (including complete CSS support), Word (WordML 2003, DocX, Word 2007 XML) and Excel (.xls, .xlsx, .xlsm, .xlsb). Supported Output formats include: PDF, XPS, PS, TIFF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WMF. Server and Redistributable licenses are available.
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4. PDFlib TET

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Publisher: PDFlib Primary Category: PDF Product Type: Component / Application / .NET Class / ActiveX DLL / DLL / JavaBean

Text extraction toolkit. PDFlib TET (Text Extraction Toolkit) reliably extracts text, images and metadata from any PDF file. It is available as a library/component and as a command-line tool. PDFlib TET makes available the text contents of a PDF as Unicode strings or structured XML, plus detailed glyph and font information. With PDFlib TET you can retrieve the corresponding Unicode values for text in a PDF document, as well as its position on the page.
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Easily create, convert, write and read Excel files. GemBox.Spreadsheet is a .NET component that enables developers to write, read or convert spreadsheet files (XLS, CSV, XLSX, HTML or ODS) from their .NET applications using one simple API. GemBox.Spreadsheet requires only .NET Framework and is many times faster than Excel automation object. GemBox.Spreadsheet is licensed per developer, server deployment is royalty free.
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Create PDF files from your Visual C++ or Visual Basic project. wPDFControl was created to make it easy for programmers to add PDF support to their application. It is based on the popular PDF engine 'wPDF' which has been successful on the Delphi and C++Builder market since 2000. Until recently wPDF was not available for programming languages other than Delphi and C++Builder, but this has changed as the wPDFControl DLL can be used in many programming languages which support dynamic link libraries (DLL's).
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Publisher: dtSearch Corp.  Primary Category: Search  Product Type: Component / Application / .NET Class / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX DLL / DLL / VC++ Class Library / JavaBean / Java Class

Add dtSearch search features and built-in file format support to your application. dtSearch Text Retrieval Engine for Win & .NET adds dtSearch’s industrial strength searching to an application. dtSearch Text Retrieval Engine for Win & .NET instantly searches terabytes of data, highlights hits in all popular file types and includes dozens of fielded and full-text search options. Spider supports local and remote dynamic and static web data; highlights hits while displaying links, images, etc. in web-ready formats. Optional APIs for .NET (including Spider API), C++, Java, SQL, etc. Now includes a native 64 bit version of the dtSearch Engine for Win & .NET. dtSearch supports Microsoft Access, Excel (*.xls, *.xlsb, *.xlsx), Word (*.doc, *.docx, *.rtf), and PowerPoint (*.ppt, *.pptx) files created by Office 2010.
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Publisher: dtSearch Corp.  Primary Category: Search  Product Type: Component / Application / .NET Class / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX DLL / DLL / VC++ Class Library / JavaBean / Java Class

Add search functionality to your Web site. dtSearch Web with Spider quickly publishes with instant text searching a wide variety of content to an IIS Web site. Most searches take less than a second, even through multiple terabytes of text. Over a dozen indexed & fielded data search options. Highlights hits in HTML, XML & PDF, while displaying links & images. Converts word processor, database, spreadsheet, ZIP, etc. files to HTML, with highlighted hits. Operating through dtSearch Web, the spider can expand the scope of the searchable database beyond a site's own data to content on a third-party Web sites (both publicly available and secure), including support for a wide variety of content (HTML, XML, ASP.NET, MS CMS, SharePoint, etc.) and WYSWYG hit highlighted displays. Optional API for SQL, Java, C++, .NET available. Now includes a 64 bit version. dtSearch supports Microsoft Access, Excel (*.xls, *.xlsb, *.xlsx), Word (*.doc, *.docx, *.rtf), and PowerPoint (*.ppt, *.pptx) files created by Office 2010.
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Publisher: Global Majic Software Primary Category: Data Conversion Product Type: Component / .NET Class

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Publisher: PDFlib Primary Category: PDF Product Type: Component / Application / .NET Class / ActiveX DLL / DLL / JavaBean

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Publisher: GemBox Software Primary Category: Spreadsheet Product Type: Component / .NET Class / 100% Managed Code

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Publisher: WPCubed Primary Category: PDF Product Type: Component / .NET Class / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX DLL / DLL

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Publisher: dtSearch Corp. Primary Category: Search Product Type: Component / Application / .NET Class / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX DLL / DLL / VC++ Class Library / JavaBean / Java Class

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