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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.

Top Reviews

LEADTOOLS OCR Module by LEAD Technologies

Average Review: based on 3 reviews.

One of the major features in our application is the ability to scan and recognize different types of images with different formats. We tried some OCR engines, but most of them are hard to implement with many limitations. We tried leadtools OCR features and it helped us to accomplish our goals. This is a great product with many features. I strongly recommend it for any programmer.
LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro SDK by LEAD Technologies

Average Review: based on 3 reviews.

We bought the toolkit to support scanning features in our application. We faced some problems at the beginning because we were new to the toolkit. We had to learn a couple of things about what functions to call and how to put that in our main project, but after a couple of hours, we were able to do it with the help of documentation.
Stylus Studio XML Enterprise Suite by DataDirect Technologies

Average Review: based on 2 reviews.

I am a librarian with no background in computer science. I work as a consultant to libraries, digitial libraries and publishers. I work with metadata; MARCXML, Dublin Core, RDF, ONIX and variety of other schemes and content marked up in XML. I acquired Stylus Studio because I needed a tool but also to learn XSLT along with various books on the subject I bought. A lucky or wise choice is up for gr ...
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ECO for Visual Studio by CapableObjects

Average Review: based on 2 reviews.

Compared to Entity Framework and other Model-centered environments ECO looks more mature and has much more powerful features like built-in unlimited Undo/Redo capability, rich runtime model information, executable state machines, powerful object repository with strong query mechanism (both Linq and OCL in-memory/in-database queries are allowed). ECO easily binds to any UI, and even has automated U ...
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InstallAware Express by InstallAware

Average Review: based on 1 review.

Until last year I used a rather inexpensive and simple installation tool for all my setups. But for more and more projects it became more time consuming due to the need of "workarounds" and tweaks I was forced to do. So I decided to invest in a new tool and I ended up using the InstallAware Express. With the Express edition I have been able to considerable reduce the time to create all my setups a ...
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InstallShield 2013 Professional by Flexera Software

Create strong, reliable Windows Installers. InstallShield Professional allows you to create flexible installations quickly and easily across all Windows operating systems. With InstallShield Professional first-time developers find it easy to create installations, while power users find its depth and flexibility perfect for developing complex software installations. InstallShield Professional supports the latest technologies, including Windows 8 and Windows Installer 5 (MSI 5). InstallShield Professional also supports Microsoft's latest products, including Visual Studio 2012, .NET Framework, MSBuild, and DirectX 9.0c. With InstallShield Professional you can expand installations to servers and Web services, including IIS, Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012. InstallShield Professional also lets you target mobile devices with support for Windows Mobile, Windows Embedded CE, SQL Server Compact Edition and PalmOS.
Altova XMLSpy 2013 Professional Edition - Installed Users by Altova

Create advanced XML applications. Altova XMLSpy Professional Edition is a leading XML editor and XML development environment for modeling, editing, transforming, and debugging all XML-based technologies. Altova XMLSpy provides intuitive views and powerful XML utilities to model, edit, transform, and debug XML related technologies. In addition to the XML editor and graphical XML Schema designer, Altova XMLSpy offers file converters, debuggers, support for XSLT, XPath, XQuery, XBRL, and all major databases, plus Visual Studio and Eclipse integration. Develop higher-quality, standards-conformant XML based applications more quickly than ever before with Altova XMLSpy Professional Edition XML Editor. Buy Altova XMLSpy with SMP to obtain priority technical support as well as major and minor Altova XMLSpy upgrades and maintenance releases at no additional cost throughout the Altova XMLSpy SMP period.
InstallShield 2013 Premier by Flexera Software

Create strong, reliable Windows Installers. InstallShield Premier allows you to create flexible installations quickly and easily across all Windows operating systems. With InstallShield Premier first-time developers find it easy to create installations, while power users find its depth and flexibility perfect for developing complex software installations. InstallShield Premier supports the latest technologies, including Windows 8 and Windows Installer 5 (MSI 5). InstallShield Premier also supports Microsoft's latest products, including Visual Studio, .NET Framework, MSBuild, and DirectX. With InstallShield Premier you can expand installations to servers and Web services, including IIS, Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server , and Windows Server 2012. InstallShield Premier also lets you target mobile devices with support for Windows Mobile, Windows Embedded CE, SQL Server Compact Edition, and PalmOS. InstallShield Premier includes trialware functionality and you can also easily localize your installation using InstallShield Premier's multilingual support - create installations for 35 runtime languages from one installation project.
Altova XMLSpy 2013 Enterprise Edition - Installed Users by Altova

Create advanced XML applications. Altova XMLSpy Enterprise Edition is an XML editor and XML development environment for modeling, editing, transforming, and debugging all XML-based technologies. The XMLSpy XML editor delivers the power you need to create the most advanced XML and Web applications, yet at the same time Altova XMLSpy is flexible enough to allow you to work with any XML technology in a way that best suits the complexity of the document and your preferences. Altova XMLSpy offers a leading XML editor and graphical XML Schema editor, code generation in Java, C#, or C++, file converters, debuggers, profilers, database integration, support for XSLT, XPath, XQuery, WSDL, SOAP, XBRL, and Open XML (OOXML), plus Visual Studio and Eclipse plug-ins, and more. Develop higher-quality, standards-conformant XML based applications more quickly than ever before with the Altova XMLSpy Enterprise Edition XML Editor.
Altova MapForce 2013 Professional Edition - Installed Users by Altova

Visual data integration tool. Altova MapForce Professional Edition is a graphical data mapping and data integration tool for transforming between XML, database and flat file formats. Altova MapForce Professional Edition includes a visual data mapper that converts data instantly or autogenerates royalty-free application code for recurrent conversions. Languages for code generation include XSLT 1.0/2.0, XQuery, Java, C++ or C#, and integration with Visual Studio and Eclipse lets you access MapForce inside these leading IDEs.

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