WPF Controls (Windows Presentation Foundation Controls & WPF Components) / Oracle / SUN (Oracle Tools & Oracle Components)

What is WPF? WPF stands for Windows Presentation Foundation and is part of the Microsoft .NET Framework that helps you create Windows based forms inside your application on Windows based PCs and servers. (When Microsoft were developing WPF it was also known as project Avalon). The WPF technology can be viewed as the next step on from Windows Forms or WinForms by Microsoft and provides support for vector graphics, as such WPF apps can produce a better look and feel, particularly for high-definition imaging and graphics applications, than traditional Windows Forms. WPF is not aimed at Web site & Intranet developers as Microsoft has another .NET Technology called Silverlight. WPF is aimed at desktop app developers.

What is a WPF Control? A WPF control is a reusable software component that you can add you your WPF form to enable the user to control the application, enter data and display data on their screen at run-time. A WPF control is a piece of code that has been pre-built by another WPF developer or third party WPF controls creator that can be easily added to your WPF based app to extend the functionality fast. For example, you will find complex Gantt scheduling WPF controls on our Web site for you to add resource scheduling, planning and timetabling functionality to your WPF program, without you needing to develop and support all those basic WPF scheduling controls.

What is a WPF Component? WPF components are different from WPF controls in that they can be non-visual and can to be running hidden in the background of your app. WPF controls are a subset of WPF components, so all WPF controls are also WPF components, but not all WPF components are visible to the user. For example, you can get a WPF data compression component that runs in the background compressing and decompressing the size of data files using common data compression techniques such as ZIP, but this WPF component and its activity is not visible to the user.

In this filtered view of our complete .NET component product catalog, you will find a WPF controls gallery and also some WPF components that you can download, compare, review, try and buy, to add to your WPF app. The Windows Presentation Foundation area of the market is rapidly expanding, so if you wish to find all the latest WPF News about third party WPF products, then subscribe to our WPF News RSS feed to keep up to date.

In this Oracle software product gallery you will find products that are compatible with: Oracle software platforms and frameworks, Oracle databases, Oracle application servers and Oracle Integrated Development Environments (IDEs). Oracle Corporation (ORCL) acquired SUN Microsystems, completing the deal on Jan 27, 2010, plus Oracle had previously acquired BEA Systems completing that deal on Apr 29, 2008. So in this Oracle marketplace, you will also find products that are compatible with SUN Microsystems (JAVA) software products and databases, as well as products that work with BEA Systems (BEAS) software products and BEA application servers.

So you will find: Oracle tools, Oracle utilities, Oracle addins and Oracle db admin tools to help with day to day Oracle database management tasks and common Oracle DBA activities. For Oracle developers you will also find Oracle components, Oracle extensions, Oracle plugins and Oracle developments tools to help make your more productive when writing your next Oracle software project. There are also Oracle components that are available as products to use in your next Oracle app, these Oracle libraries are usually made available as an Oracle Java Class or as an Oracle JavaBean.

The Oracle dev tools can be: searched for on our Web site, evaluated using the Oracle downloads that we have for each product, compared with other Oracle utility or Oracle dev tool products, before you make any purchasing decision. You can also read what your fellow Oracle developers thought about the Oracle tool they downloaded by reading our Oracle reviews. You can also buy, download and license these Oracle tools and Oracle components directly from our Web site.

Finally, we have several Oracle News feeds for each type of Oracle product from the Oracle product range, these News feeds are published as Oracle News pages and also available as Oracle RSS data feeds, so that you can keep up to date with new third party products releases that are compatible with the Oracle software product range.