Visual Studio 2008

NetAdvantage ICONS by Infragistics

Add professional icons to your applications. Infragistics NetAdvantage ICONS are high-fidelity, exciting icons that you can use to enhance toolbars, menus, ribbons, and the user interface of your application. NetAdvantage ICONS includes icons in seven different sizes (16px, 24px, 32px, 48px, 64px, 128px and 256px square) as PNG files, plus an ICO file. For each size, Infragistics also provide the icon in three interactive states: normal, hover (highlighted) and disabled (grayed-out so you will always have icons in the right-size and style you need. The Office Basics pack includes cut, paste, copy, file, search, undo/redo, help and many other command icons found in everyday applications, plus more. The Business & Finance pack includes icons designed for many everyday accounting, banking and commercial scenarios. Now any application can have that Wall Street look and feel. 

Infragistics NetAdvantage for .NET by Infragistics

Add, grid, ribbon, scheduling, toolbar, menu, listbar, tree, UI and editing functionality to your .NET, Visual Studio 2005/2008, ASP.NET, WPF, Silverlight and Tablet PC applications. Infragistics NetAdvantage for .NET is a comprehensive presentation layer toolset for quickly building and styling polished application UIs and delivering a great user experience, for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, WPF and Silverlight. NetAdvantage for .NET contains all essential UI controls (over 100 in all) for applications built using Visual Studio: grids, scheduling, charting, gauges, navigation, ribbon, toolbars, menus, listbars, trees, tabs, explorer bars, UI and many other editors, as well as Application Styling, Excel import/export and a Document Export Engine for PDF and XPS formats. Infragistics NetAdvantage for .NET tools work natively within Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 and include Office 2007 styles, Vista styles and Vista support. Included with every purchase of NetAdvantage for .NET, Infragistics provides product support, source code to the controls and frameworks, two releases yearly of customer driven products and features and more. 

DXperience by Developer Express

All the Visual Studio .NET component suites, libraries and IDE tools produced by Developer Express in one package. DXperience includes all the Developer Express .NET Windows Forms Components, ASP.NET Components plus IDE tools (CodeRush and Refactor!), eXpress Persistent Objects (a Business Application Framework) and eXpressApp Framework. The Windows forms products are 100% C# based and fully optimized for Visual Studio 2005/2008. With just a couple of mouse clicks you can add navigation and docking facilities using the XtraBars and XtraNavBar suites, provide data browsing and editing by means of the XtraEditors, XtraGrid, XtraTreeList, XtraVerticalGrid suites and enhance your applications with the XtraPrinting Library and XtraReports Suite which are really easy-to-use flexible printing and reporting tools. The DXperience Enterprise/Universal Subscription includes source code for all Windows Forms and ASP.NET components it does not include source code for CodeRush, Refactor! and the ActiveX product line. Priority technical support is also included. 

ComponentOne Studio Enterprise by ComponentOne

Add grid, reporting, charting, scheduling, data manipulation, user interface and more to your .NET, ASP.NET, Mobile Device, Windows Presentation Foundation and ActiveX applications. ComponentOne Studio Enterprise includes components from all ComponentOne Studio subscriptions offering you over 180 components for .NET, ASP.NET ( AJAX ready), WPF, ActiveX, and Mobile Devices. ComponentOne Studio Enterprise delivers the latest components, new releases, updates and upgrades, and email and online support for one full year from your date of purchase. ComponentOne Studio Enterprise 2008 also includes the new ComponentOne Suite for Windows Presentation Foundation and ComponentOne IntelliSpell Professional. ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight (currently in Beta) will also be part of the ComponentOne Studio Enterprise. 

Telerik RadControls for WinForms by Telerik

With Telerik RadControls for WinForms, you get the visual attractiveness of WPF while still using the familiar Windows Forms controls. Telerik RadControls for WinForms provide: (a) advanced GDI+ rendering techniques: rotation, scaling, animations, transparencies; (b) run natively on all .NET 2.0 platforms (Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, etc.); (c) excellent WinForms-grade performance; (d) no need to invest in Vista-class hardware; (e) ideal choice for enterprise business systems (CAB support is provided); (f) three productivity tools are also included: Control Spy, Visual Style Builder and Shape Editor. The Subscription License comes with a Gold Support Package (up to 24h response time), full C# source code, redistribution rights and free updates for the latest products for 1 year. The tools work without license keys and can be freely deployed on an unlimited number of development, testing and production servers. Hundreds of code samples and comprehensive documentation are provided to accelerate your learning. 

Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX by Telerik

Average Review: based on 56 reviews.

When our team started exploring the AJAX technologies and decided to implement it in one of our new sites in development. We reviewed several commercial products including the Telerik RADControls for ASP.NET. After reviewing this product, we settled on using Telerik’s suite and purchased it. One of the reasons we selected Telerik was because of how easy it was to use their controls as they closel ... Read full review.

Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise by Syncfusion

Average Review: based on 9 reviews.

Excellent product – there’s no two ways about that! Have used it since 2002 and only have positive things to say. Besides the high quality of the product itself, the support is also terrific and Syncfusion’s feedback system works great and provides fast replies. If you find a bug, it’s often possible to get a service pack with a fix, without having to wait for the next release!  

UISuite by Karamasoft

Average Review: based on 7 reviews.

I've been using Uisuite for quite a while and continue to be blown away by their excellent products and outstanding support. I get all their new products and upgrades for free with my developer subscription license. Their support team has always responded within a few hours and has generally resolved the issues. Thanks for the excellent service and the great software.  

RapidSpell Desktop .NET by Keyoti

Average Review: based on 5 reviews.

Yes - RapidSpell is an excellent spell checker; you won't make a wrong decision choosing it based on on features and performance alone. This is not the whole story though. Simply put, Keyoti tech support is truly first-rate. Even if RapidSpell were not as good as any other competitive spell checker, their support would still tip the scale in their favor. Beyond being incredibly responsive and high ... Read full review.

Telerik RadEditor by Telerik

Average Review: based on 4 reviews.

We've tried a number of asp.net editors but this one is the best! Their support is incredible. We are currently integrating this into one of our products. A+  

Infragistics NetAdvantage for .NET by Infragistics

Add, grid, ribbon, scheduling, toolbar, menu, listbar, tree, UI and editing functionality to your .NET, Visual Studio 2005/2008, ASP.NET, WPF, Silverlight and Tablet PC applications. Infragistics NetAdvantage for .NET is a comprehensive presentation layer toolset for quickly building and styling polished application UIs and delivering a great user experience, for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, WPF and Silverlight. NetAdvantage for .NET contains all essential UI controls (over 100 in all) for applications built using Visual Studio: grids, scheduling, charting, gauges, navigation, ribbon, toolbars, menus, listbars, trees, tabs, explorer bars, UI and many other editors, as well as Application Styling, Excel import/export and a Document Export Engine for PDF and XPS formats. Infragistics NetAdvantage for .NET tools work natively within Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 and include Office 2007 styles, Vista styles and Vista support. Included with every purchase of NetAdvantage for .NET, Infragistics provides product support, source code to the controls and frameworks, two releases yearly of customer driven products and features and more. 

DXperience by Developer Express

All the Visual Studio .NET component suites, libraries and IDE tools produced by Developer Express in one package. DXperience includes all the Developer Express .NET Windows Forms Components, ASP.NET Components plus IDE tools (CodeRush and Refactor!), eXpress Persistent Objects (a Business Application Framework) and eXpressApp Framework. The Windows forms products are 100% C# based and fully optimized for Visual Studio 2005/2008. With just a couple of mouse clicks you can add navigation and docking facilities using the XtraBars and XtraNavBar suites, provide data browsing and editing by means of the XtraEditors, XtraGrid, XtraTreeList, XtraVerticalGrid suites and enhance your applications with the XtraPrinting Library and XtraReports Suite which are really easy-to-use flexible printing and reporting tools. The DXperience Enterprise/Universal Subscription includes source code for all Windows Forms and ASP.NET components it does not include source code for CodeRush, Refactor! and the ActiveX product line. Priority technical support is also included. 

ActiveReports for .NET by Data Dynamics

Generate a wide variety of reports from your .NET applications (Now includes Visual Studio 2008 Support). ActiveReports for .NET is written in managed C# and provides integration with the Visual Studio .NET IDE. This allows Visual Studio .NET programmers to leverage their current programming language (C# or Visual Basic .NET) when programming for ActiveReports for .NET. ActiveReports for .NET is based on a per-developer licensing scheme, and it is royalty-free to distribute. ActiveReports for .NET comes with a report wizard and a Microsoft Access report conversion wizard so you can start creating reports quickly. 

Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX by Telerik

A professional toolset designed to help ASP.NET developers deliver feature-rich, standards-compliant and cross-browser compatible Web applications on budget and on time. Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX (formerly Prometheus) is a complete toolset for building Web solutions with the UI richness and responsiveness of desktop applications. It was built on top of the Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX framework and is a new development model, not mere AJAX functionality. The Subscription License comes with a Gold Support Package (up to 24h response time), full C# source code, redistribution rights and free updates for the latest products for 1 year. The Telerik tools work without license keys and can be freely deployed on any server. 

Installshield 2009 Professional by Acresso Software (formerly Macrovision)

Create strong, reliable Windows Installers. InstallShield allows you to create flexible installations quickly and easily across all Windows operating systems. First-time developers find it easy to create installations, while power users find its depth and flexibility perfect for developing complex software installations. It supports the latest technologies, including Visual Studio 2005/2008, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0/3.5, SQL Server 2005 and Windows Vista. InstallShield also includes MSI 3.0 support, automatic updating of XML file settings and Trialware functionality which allows developers to add more power and flexibility into their setup projects (InstallShield Premier Edition Only).