Visual Studio

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. This ComponentOne subscription 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. 

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. 

InstallShield Express by Acresso Software (formerly Macrovision)

Quick and easy installations that support today's technologies. InstallShield Express is easy to use and shields setup authors from installation complexities of building a setup. You can rapidly build, test and implement Windows and mobile device installations in record time without any training. InstallShield Express keeps setup authors up to date with support for the latest technologies and industry standards, including Windows Vista, .NET 3.0 support and Try and Buy functionality. The Express Edition is a cost-effective solution that will fit into any budget, making it possible for everyone to create professional looking Windows or mobile device installations. 

FarPoint Spread by FarPoint Technologies

Add advanced spreadsheet functionality to your applications. Use FarPoint Spread to easily incorporate advanced grid and high-level spreadsheet features into your applications. FarPoint Spread offers unmatched flexibility at the cell level for maximum control over the display and entry of the data, plenty of events to respond to user changes and an impressive feature list for everything in between; including import/export capabilities, including the ability to import and export spreadsheet files in Microsoft Excel BIFF8 format, enhanced printing, 13 cell types, formulas, plus many more. FarPoint Spread will allow you create a spreadsheet with up to 2 billion rows by 2 billion columns. 

VSFlexGrid Pro by ComponentOne

Add flexible grids for display of tabular data. VSFlexGrid Pro is an upgrade to the MSFlexGrid that comes in the box with Visual Basic that gives you a full range of features for building flexible, powerful front ends for database applications. Customize the display and presentation of dynamic data in your Windows, Internet or Intranet projects with a host of new ways to display, edit, format, organize, summarize, and print tabular data. 

Protection PLUS Pro by Concept Software

Average Review: based on 5 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 ... Read full review.

ReSize OCX/.NET by Larcom and Young

Average Review: based on 5 reviews.

For vb6/com environments, this is fine - not needed for .net  

WordController by Jumar Solutions

Average Review: based on 4 reviews.

We had originally implemented our own Printing DLL's using the MS-Word object model. We do complex mail merge for about 200 different documents. It took us months to understand how to do what we wanted to do, for all the different versions of Word. We couldn't just choose one version of the library to code with (as our clients use all the versions) so we were coding with late bound objects, a ni ... Read full review.

True DBGrid Pro by ComponentOne

Average Review: based on 3 reviews.

Excellent product - professional tool  

List Pro by FarPoint Technologies

Average Review: based on 3 reviews.

I have been a contractor and or employee doing VB development for over 25 years now. I came across ListPro as an alternative to the controls included with VB and would use nothing else. If I remeber correctly, I started using it almost 10-years ago and it has been purchased by myself and every client/employer I've worked for since. A MUST HAVE control.  

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. This ComponentOne subscription 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. 

VectorDraw Developer Framework (VDF) by VectorDraw

Add dynamic 2D/3D graphics to your application. VectorDraw Developer Framework (VDF) is a component to easily create and manage and print 2D and 3D drawings. Its objects expose methods and properties that are compatible with most common vector formats and other CAD objects. Supports over 10 vector formats and many raster formats. VectorDraw Developer Framework (VDF) is fully object oriented and .NET 2 ready. The component is written in .NET 2005 C# code. An ActiveX component is also supplied. This ActiveX provides backward compatibility for older development platforms like VisualBasic 6.0 (VB 6) and Delphi.
 

Altova® XMLSpy 2008 Professional Edition - Installed Users by Altova

Create advanced XML applications. Altova XMLSpy® increases productivity by allowing you to develop higher-quality, standards-conformant XML-based applications more quickly than ever before. Designed to increase your XML development productivity from start to finish, XMLSpy® supports XML instance document creation and editing, schema-aware XQuery development and debugging, visual XML Schema development, XPath 1.0/2.0 development, DTD editing, database interaction, graphical WSDL development, Web services development, SOAP development and debugging, Java/C#/C++ code generation, XSLT 1.0 development and debugging, VS.NET and Eclipse integration, schema-aware XSLT 2.0 development and debugging. 

FarPoint Spread by FarPoint Technologies

Add advanced spreadsheet functionality to your applications. Use FarPoint Spread to easily incorporate advanced grid and high-level spreadsheet features into your applications. FarPoint Spread offers unmatched flexibility at the cell level for maximum control over the display and entry of the data, plenty of events to respond to user changes and an impressive feature list for everything in between; including import/export capabilities, including the ability to import and export spreadsheet files in Microsoft Excel BIFF8 format, enhanced printing, 13 cell types, formulas, plus many more. FarPoint Spread will allow you create a spreadsheet with up to 2 billion rows by 2 billion columns.