EC Software / Development Tools & Software Utilities (Dev Tools & IT Utilities)

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EC Software was originally founded in 1993 and went a long way from the initial small one-man shop for point-of-sale software to the documentation tools specialist that it is today. With the first release of Help and Manual in 1997 the company changed its business focus to documentation software and developer tools. Today, Help and Manual is one of the best selling and most popular help authoring tools world-wide.

Development Tools & Software Utilities (Dev Tools & IT Utilities)

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

It's not just developer tools! There are IT utilities for Systems Administrators, Network Administrators and Database Administrators (DB Admins) to use. For example, we have database tools, like database backup utilities to make sure you are backing up your MSFT SQL Server database reliably, db tools to speed up data maintenance tasks on MySQL databases and database utilities to compare data schemas in Oracle databases prior to live deployment. We have an extensive range of XML tools, to help you manage your XML based data files. There are application packaging and deployment tools to help you manage and distribute your software applications across your organization. There are SharePoint tools to help you monitor the Audit logs from your SharePoint server farm.

For technical writers, technical authors, business process & workflow creators and the developer who has turned into the accidental documenter at the end of the project, we have a wide selection of help authoring tools to help you create basic 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, through to sophisticated modern documentation tools that take a capture, document and share or collaborative approach to creation on-line documentation.

The Dev Tools & IT Utilities catalog is split into 3 main categories based on platform and compatibility: Windows, Linux and Unix. We have many more tools for Windows environments than we do for Linux & Unix and as such the Windows tools category is sub-divided into further categories based on product compatibility. In general for all the tools listed here you can: find, compare, download, review, try and buy the dev tools and IT utilities from our Web site. If you are interested in News about DevTools we also have many Tools News RSS feeds that you can subscribe to, to help keep you up to date with all the latest releases in your specific area of interest. So whether you are watching for the latest version of your favorite bestselling installation tool to be released or looking for a brand new DevTool to help with a new problem - you will find high quality, commercial grade software developer tools and IT utilities here to meet your needs.

Related News

Help & Manual 6 supports Webhelp 2.0
Publish all standard Windows help formats including HTML Help, Webhelp and Visual Studio Help. November 15, 2011
Help & Manual improves Robohelp import
Version 5.6 also exports high Unicode characters, with standard fonts, as glyphs in PDF files. August 17, 2011
Help & Manual improves metafile scaling
Version 5.5.1 also features improved PDF export and supports leading and trailing spaces in topic variables. January 31, 2011

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1. Help & Manual Professional

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Publisher: EC Software Primary Category: Help Authoring and Documentation Product Type: Application

Create advanced multi format help and documentation. Help and Manual is an advanced multi format help authoring tool that provides all the formatting and editing features of a modern word processor. You can output your projects to all standard Windows help formats (HTML Help, Winhelp and MS Help 2.0 / Visual Studio Help), browser-based Help, PDF and Word RTF. All output formats supported by Help & Manual are generated from the same project, you only have to edit your help and documentation once. Help & Manual Professional (XML Edition) Edition includes advanced features like Unicode Support or export/import help projects in XML format. Help & Manual is fully compatible with Windows Vista and Windows 7 (both 32 and 64 bits). Help & Manual Premium Pack available. Help & Manual Premium Pack contains 14 professionally-designed "skins" with which you can transform the appearance of your HTML-based output with a single click.
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2. Help & Manual Premium Pack

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Publisher: EC Software Primary Category: Help Authoring and Documentation Product Type: Application

Add professionally designed skins to your Help & Manual projects. Help & Manual Premium Pack contains 14 professionally designed "skins" with which you can transform the appearance of your HTML-based output with a single click. You just select one of the skins in the Publish dialog and click OK to publish. The templates in the skins are merged with your project to give you tabbed navigation, non-scrolling headers and a stylish design. The Help & Manual Premium Pack skins do a lot more than just make your output look better. You also get a number of features that would normally require hours of programming and editing in your HTML and CSS code like user feedback button, print button, breadcrumb trail navigation box, etc..When you select a Help & Manual Premium Pack skin, the options for activating its features are automatically displayed in the Include Options box in the Publish dialog. You activate and deactivate features by selecting or deselecting the options.
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3. Help & Manual Basic

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Publisher: EC Software Primary Category: Help Authoring and Documentation Product Type: Application

Create advanced multi format help and documentation. Help & Manual is an advanced multi format help authoring tool that provides all the formatting and editing features of a modern word processor. You can output your projects to all standard Windows help formats (HTML Help, Winhelp and MS Help 2.0 / Visual Studio Help), browser-based Help, PDF and Word RTF. All output formats supported by Help & Manual are generated from the same project, you only have to edit your help and documentation once. Help & Manual Professional (XML Edition) Edition includes advanced features like Unicode Support or export/import help projects in XML format. Help & Manual is fully compatible with Windows 7. New Help & Manual Premium Pack available. Help & Manual Premium Pack contains 14 professionally-designed "skins" with which you can transform the appearance of your HTML-based output with a single click.
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