Windows Development Tools (Dev Tools & IT Utilities) / Visual C++ (Tools & Libraries)

Windows Development Tools (Dev Tools & IT Utilities)

In this area of our product catalog you will find Windows developers tools and Windows utilities that will help you with almost every aspect of Windows software development. These Windows software development tools will help you with: designing, modeling, coding, unit testing, performance testing, deploying and maintaining your Windows software application. As well as complete Windows IDEs, there are Windows developer tools for version control and also software build or compilation tools to help you in reliably building new releases of your Windows application software. There are also Windows documentation tools, issue tracking and help desk tools that allow you to cover almost every aspect of the Windows Software Development Life-Cycle (SDLC).

There are also Windows IT utilities for Windows IT Pros, like: Systems Administrators (Sys Admins), Network Administrators (Network Admins) and Database Administrators (DB Admins) to use. For example, we have Windows database tools, like database backup utilities to make sure you are backing up your MSFT SQL Server database reliably, Windows db tools to speed up data maintenance tasks on SQL Server databases and database utilities to compare data schemas in Oracle databases prior to live deployment. We have an extensive range of Windows XML tools, to help you manage your XML based data files. For Windows SysAdmins there are Windows software packaging and deployment tools to help you manage and distribute your Windows software packages across your organization and for SharePoint Admins, there are SharePoint tools to help you monitor the Audit logs from your SharePoint server farm.

For technical writers, technical authors, we have a wide selection of Windows help authoring tools to help you create basic Windows 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 for Windows developers looking to create basic on-line help systems and user guides at the end of a project, through to sophisticated modern documentation tools that take a capture, document and share or collaborative approach to creation on-line documentation.

The Windows Dev Tools & Windows IT Utilities catalog is split into 9 sub-categories based on compatibility: Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 9X/ME and Windows 3.x, as well as Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 and Windows NT.

For all the Windows tools listed here you can: find, compare, download, review, try and buy the Windows dev tools and Windows IT utilities from our Web site. If you are interested in News about Windows DevTools we also have many Windows Tools News RSS feeds that you can subscribe to, to help keep you up to date with all the latest Windows RAD Tool or Windows SDLC Tool releases in your specific area of interest.

Visual C++ (Tools & Libraries)

Microsoft Visual C++ (MS Visual C++) allows Visual C++ programmers to rapidly create Windows applications for their end users. Visual C++ developers can extend the standard functionality available inside the Visual C++ IDE with a variety of Visual C++ add-ins and Visual C++ tools. The extensibility of Visual C++ is one of the main reasons it has proved to be popular with developers, as Visual C++ software engineers can find Visual C++ downloads from other companies or other VC++ developers to act as a Visual C++ extension to their Visual C++ IDE or Visual C++ app.

The versatility of Visual C++ also extends to various forms of Visual C++ software components. Visual C++ controls can be used to create feature rich Visual C++ user interfaces on forms and Web pages inside Visual C++ apps. These Visual C++ UI controls are augmented by non-visual Visual C++ components or Visual C++ libraries or Visual C++ Class libraries that can help a developer add many hidden features in Visual C++ applications running in the background. These non-visual components are most commonly available as a Visual C++ library or Visual C++ Class library.

An example of a visible Visual C++ control is BCGControlBar Professional, a Visual C++ Class Library that allows you to create an MS Office Ribbon style or look and feel to your latest Visual C++ project UI. A non-visible Visual C++ Class Library component example is a Visual C++ compatible product call IP*Works! C++ Edition that allows you to send emails via SMTP and POP or to transfer files reliably using HTTP or FTP Internet protocols from within your Visual C++ program.

The Visual C++ software products listed in this Visual C++ product gallery will allow you to save a lot of time and effort in creating your new Visual C++ app. Whether you are looking for a Visual C++ plug-in or Visual C++ utility, or you are looking for a Visual C++ control or a Visual C++ component, you will be able to find a wide variety of Visual C++ tools to help you finish your project faster.

We also have other Visual C++ product galleries for: Visual C++ 2010, Visual C++ 2008, Visual C++ 2005 and Visual C++ .NET compatible products.

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LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro SDK by LEAD Technologies

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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.
LEADTOOLS Multimedia SDK by LEAD Technologies

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I used their Multimedia toolkit in my development of our own conference application. Since I was new to multimedia arena, I found a hard time at first in understanding some of the requirements I'm required to implement. However, the guys in LEADTOOLS have helped me improve understanding of Multimedia, how it works in general and how their functions fit-in with my understanding. Now the conference ...
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LEADTOOLS Document Imaging Suite SDK by LEAD Technologies

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I needed to save an OCR result as PDF. I searched the Internet for a library that saves searchable PDF, I found many free libraries but all of them were hard to implement or full of bugs. Also there was no support with the free stuff. Finally I ended up using leadtools, and it gave me the ability to recognize documents and save the results as searchable PDF. I recommend leadtools for these 3 reas ...
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LEADTOOLS Document Imaging SDK by LEAD Technologies

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I am a long time user of LEADTOOLS SDK’s. We use some of their document features (scanning, cleanup, OCR) in our application and have never had any issues. We stay on their maintenance program because their OCR seems to get better with each version and this has helped us sell upgrades for our application! Our latest upgrade proved to be the best yet in terms of accuracy and performance. I have ...
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