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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!

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GemBox.Spreadsheet by GemBox Software

Average Review: based on 4 reviews.

This is an excellent component. I have used it extensively in a number of projects for both reading and writing Excel spreadsheets and it has never let me down. It's easy to get up and running with the component and it does exactly what it says on the tin. I would highly recommend it.
Protection PLUS Pro by Concept Software

Average Review: based on 3 reviews.

A VERY powerful product with quite a steep learning curve. Don't be put off. Invest a few hours and read the manual and you'll soon be up and running. We're all used to diving in without reading instructions, but this is worth the effort and worth the price. A product that will do as much or as little as you want. 110% happy that we bought it. Only downside is that the manual appears to have been ...
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ProEssentials by GigaSoft

Average Review: based on 2 reviews.

Pro Essentials is a great tool. Support and documention were excellent.
Add-in Express for Microsoft Office and .net by Add-in Express

Average Review: based on 1 review.

I have been using Add-in Express for Microsoft Office and .NET for the last four years or so for all my clients' MS Excek solutions. It's an excellent Rapid Application Development tool (RAD tool) and provides a reliable and flexible development framework for my work. The RAD tool allows us, among other things, to work with the classic Commandbar and the Ribbob UI easily and where the outcome is h ...
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dtSearch Text Retrieval Engine for Win and .NET (32-bit / 64-bit). by dtSearch Corp.

Average Review: based on 1 review.

This is a great product I heard about it from Windows Magazine – they say: "Very powerful ... a staggering number of ways to search"

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GdPicture.NET by GdPicture

Add advanced image processing to your applications. GdPicture.NET is a suite of document imaging toolkits delivered as .NET components enabling developers to compose, display, capture, edit and print documents into .NET applications including ASP.NET web applications. With GdPicture.NET your programs will be able to display documents, acquire image from TWAIN scanners, make image processing, perform optical characters recognition and many other features covering all mainstream areas of document imaging. GdPicture.NET technology supports more than 90 vector and bitmap image formats from 1-bit to 128-bit including High Dynamic Range images, JPEG2000, JBIG, JBIG2, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, PNG and RAW camera. GdPicture.NET can be used on any 32-bit and 64-bit Windows development environment that supports .NET components such as Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and CodeGear RAD Studio. GdPicture PDF plugin, GdPicture XMP Annotation plugin, GdPicture JBIG2 Encoder plugin, GdPicture Forms Processing plugin, GdPicture OCR Tesseract Engine plugin, GdPicture 1D Barcode Reader plugin and GdPicture DataMatrix Recognition plugin are included free of charge in GdPicture.NET 8 Ultimate Edition. You can also buy GdPicture Plugins separately to extend the functionality of any other GdPicture.NET SDK.
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GemBox.Spreadsheet by GemBox Software

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.
PDFlib Personalization Server (PPS) by PDFlib

Generate PDFs on the fly. PDFlib is a development tool for PDF-enabling your software or generating PDFs on your server. PDFlib offers a simple-to-use API for programmatically creating PDF files from within your own server-side or client-side software. PDFlib doesn't make use of third-party software for generating PDFs, nor does it require any other tools. PDFlib+PDI can import existing PDF files. PDFlib Personalization Server (PPS) includes PDFlib+PDI, plus additional functions for automatically filling PDFlib blocks. PPS also includes the PDFlib Block Plugin for creating blocks interactively. PDFlib is available for all major operating environments and development environments.
Add-in Express for Microsoft Office and .net by Add-in Express

Easily write professional extensions for Microsoft Office 2000 – 2010 such as COM add-ins, smart tags, real-time data servers and user-defined functions. Add-in Express for Office and .NET provides components for integrating your code with-in all applications from the Microsoft Office family including Outlook, Word, Excel, Visio, Access, PowerPoint, MapPoint, FrontPage, InfoPath, Project and Publisher. Using the Add-in Express visual designers, wizards, modules and components you can create version-neutral, secure, isolated, deployable and automatically updatable Office extensions with your own toolbars, menus, ribbons, form regions, task panes and keyboard shortcuts in minutes. All available Office versions, from 2000 to 2010 (x86 and x64), and Office suites, from Student to Enterprise, are supported transparently. Add-in Express for Office and .NET directly supports Visual Basic .NET, C#, and C++ in Visual Studio 2005, 2008 and 2010; VB.NET Express and C# Express are supported too.

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