Data Storage / .NET Components and .NET Controls / SQL Server Tools & SQL Server Utilities

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!

What is SQL Server? SQL Server is a relational database product from Microsoft sometimes called MS SQL Server or MSFT SQL Server.

In this area of our product catalog you will find commercial grade, quality SQL Server tools that will help you manage your MS SQL Server database. We have SQL Server database tools that work with various versions of SQL Server, so we have SQL Server 2008 tools and SQL Server 2005 tools for you to assess. Many of these SQL Server tool products have trials available as SQL Server tools downloads for you to evaluate. This SQL Server product gallery allows you to find, read about, compare, download, review, try and buy Microsoft SQL Server tools.

The SQL Server utilities listed here in our on-line catalog of SQL Server tool products cover a wide variety of functionality. For example, you will find SQL tools that allow you to compare SQL statements and to compare schemas in your SQL Server database. Some of these SQL Server tools go further than this and then allow you to track changes in your SQL Server database, then synchronize the SQL Server databases if they are found to be different. There are also advanced SQL Server audit and SQL Server log tools, to help you manage and monitor the SQL audit and SQL log files produced by your SQL Server db. SQL Server backup tools and backup utilities are also available, to help you manage your MSFT SQL Server data and back it up securely and efficiently. We also have SQL Server data recovery tool, that help you get data back that you may have lost due to a failure of some sort.

Looking at SQL Server tools aimed at developers and SQL Server testing, there are tools for developers to help them compare and update data schemas from one version release to another. SQL Server test data generator tools are also available, to populate your empty dev databases with realistic data, so that you can run tests more easily before you deploy your SQL Server data based application. There are SQL refactoring tools to help format your code in a standard way to make it more readable and easier to maintain. In addition there are a wide variety of data access and data binding tools, utilities and software components to help you get reliable and fast access to your SQL Server data.

So whether you are looking for a SQL Server 2005 tool or a SQL Server 2008 tool or a specific SQL Server utility, we have a wide range of products for you to compare, download, review, try and buy. This area of our Web site is updated regularly with new SQL Server tool products and new SQL Server utility releases, so if you want to keep up to date with all the SQL Server Tools News, please subscribe to our SQL Server tool RSS news feed.