Desaware / Visual Basic Class Library

Since its inception in 1991 as one of the first third party Visual Basic component vendors, Desaware has lead the way in developing innovative software products to assist developers in their programming efforts. Based on experience going back to the days of Windows 1.0, we understand the critical features needed by developers, sometimes presenting a solution before developers are even aware of the problem (as in the case of VersionStamper - a tool which solves the "DLL Hell" distribution problems).

Desaware's products deploy advanced technology to reduce our customers' costs. Our customers have told us that VersionStamper has paid for itself within days of their product's deployment. Our NT Service Toolkit reduced the cost of developing NT services from weeks and months of time by high end C++ programmers to hours of time by Visual Basic developers - with no compromise in capability. Our SpyWorks package does the same, allowing VB and .NET developers easy access to lower level features in Windows.

Our new StateCoder product for .NET dramatically improves the reliability of applications, components and services that make use of the multithreading and asynchronous features of .NET. Forthcoming .NET products will continue in this tradition.

Our customer base ranges from independent contractors to Fortune 50 companies, all of whom have found that by using our products they can dramatically reduce time to market and provide more features to their customers than would otherwise be possible.

1. SpyWorks Professional  Average Review: based on 2 reviews

Publisher: Desaware  Primary Category: Windows API  Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / DLL / VBX / VB Class Library

Intercept the low-level message stream for any application or the entire system at once. SpyWorks is an ActiveX component collection intended for developers who need a core set of advanced programming tools for Visual Basic 5.0/6.0. SpyWorks exposes the underlying operation of the Windows system that is hidden by Visual Basic, thus allowing developers to take full advantage of all of the capabilities of Windows including API functions, ActiveX Extensions, the Desaware API Class Library and more.   View More
2. Desaware Universal COM

Publisher: Desaware Primary Category: Product Suites Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / DLL / VBX / VB Class Library / VC++ Class Library / Source Code

All of Desaware's COM components, with full source code. Desaware’s Universal COM is a comprehensive suite of software components for Visual Basic solution providers which also contains the source code for the nine individual products included: SpyWorks Professional; NT Service Toolkit COM; StorageTools; VersionStamper; Event Log Toolkit; Custom Control Factory; CCF Cursors and File Property Component. Resources include: detection of incompatible DLLs, VBXs and OCXs, Windows services, event logging, windows and keyboard hooks, 51 individual controls and libraries, and more than 1 million lines of code. View More
3. Event Log Toolkit

Publisher: Desaware Primary Category: Security and Administration Product Type: Component / DLL / VB Class Library

Create custom event sources for logging events into the NT/2000 event log. The Event Log Toolkit overcomes the generic "VB runtime" event logging, along with its limited descriptions and lack of event categories. With it you can create self-registering, custom event sources that have no dependencies, allowing your application to send events to the Windows NT/2000 event log using an unlimited number of event categories and containing clear descriptions of each event. View More