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What is a software component? Software components or UI controls are pre-built software libraries or code libraries that you can use in your software application to quickly add new functionality. When you use a software component previously written by yourself, you are reusing your own code and saving time, plus you gain the benefits of using a modular approach to your software design or architecture, that will hopefully give you other quality and efficiency benefits.

When you use a software component or UI control pre-written by an expert in that area or field of study, you are not only saving time and effort, you are also adding high quality functionality to your application - fast. Features that were difficult for you to code, as you do not have the pre-requisite skills or knowledge, can now be easily added. With software components you can rapidly add new functions to your app and at the same time hit your project deadlines or gain time to market for a new product! Plus, if you are using a pre-built software component written by an industry expert, you may also gain in quality and performance terms as well.

In this commercial software component gallery you will find over 1,700 components or controls for your next software project that have been written by industry experts who are specialists in their field. So whether you are looking for software ActiveX controls for a mature VB project now under maintenance or for .Net controls, ASP controls or a C# component for a more up to date .NET Framework project or Web site built using ASP then you have come to the best commercial grade software component marketplace in the world.

As well as an ActiveX component product zone and a comprehensive .Net components product listing full of .NET datagrids, .NET chart and other .NET UI control products, you will also find product galleries full of Delphi controls (VCLs). Plus there are VB & VC++ class libraries, DLL object based products and even some Static Link Library products too.

ComponentSource not only has Microsoft components such as: ASP.NET controls; DLL library based products or .NET component UI products, we also have a Flash component gallery with Flash components and Flex components. For example, you will find Flash buttons for your user interface or a Flash chart for your Flash UI and some of the latest products that support Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4 from Adobe. Plus we have Java components and Java libraries available for a variety of visual and non-visual tasks, implemented as JavaBeans, Java Classes, as Enterprise JavaBeans and as Java Class libraries.

So hopefully you will find a commercial grade, quality software component or UI control that will meet your component programming or object design needs. If you don't, why don't you write that software component or library yourself? Then ask us to sell it for you!

In this IBM software product gallery you will find a filtered view of our main product catalog, that only contains IBM utilities or IBM development tools that are compatible with other IBM software products, IBM tools or IBM databases. This IBM marketplace enables you to: find the right IBM tool or IBM plug-in for your needs, read other IBM developers comments as IBM reviews, carry out evaluations from our IBM downloads pages, then compare the IBM utility of your choice with other IBM tools that are available and decide which IBM product is right for you. Finally, you are able to buy IBM tools and IBM utilities here, immediately download them from our IBM software marketplace and install, license or activate them.

There is also a wide range of compatible IBM components, IBM plugins, IBM libraries to add to your next IBM software development project. These IBM extensions are either written by IBM partners or third-party software developers or ISVs, or in some cases are IBM products in their own right. So you should be able to find the right IBM library, IBM plugin & IBM addin that is a compatible IBM extension for your next project.

To help you keep up with all this IBM software product news, we have an IBM News page and IBM RSS News data feed for you to subscribe to, this will help you keep up to date with all the IBM tools and IBM components news.