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DevExpress

DevExpress (Developer Express) is a software development company based in the United States. It produces coding assistance tools and components for Delphi, C++ Builder and Microsoft Visual Studio developers. The major part of its product line is VCL, .NET WinForms and ASP.NET components that replicate the UI of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office applications. DevExpress has won many industry awards for its products.

Accusoft

Accusoft was founded in 1991 under the corporate name Pegasus Imaging, and headquartered in Tampa, Florida. Accusoft is now repositioned to be the largest single source provider of imaging software development kits (SDKs) and image viewers, as measured by estimated market share and product offerings. Owing to its wide suite of products, deep R&D and generous customer focus, Accusoft is a leader in the imaging SDK field. Imaging technology solutions include barcode, compression, DICOM, editing, forms processing, OCR, PDF, scanning, video, and viewing. Technology is delivered for Microsoft .NET, ActiveX, Silverlight, AJAX, ASP.NET, Windows Workflow, and Java environments. Multiple 32-bit and 64-bit platforms are supported, including Windows, Windows Mobile, Linux, Sun Solaris, Mac OSX, and IBM AIX.

Pelnor Software

Pelnor Software believes that documentation is a crucial part of software development. The Pelnor Help Add-in was created to make software documentation a natural part of development.

In other help creation software, screenshots are taken and added to documentation by hand.  Adding hyperlinks to an image or linking program controls to help files is a slow manual process.  Once this process is done even minor changes to the program being developed can take hours to re-document. It's little wonder that documentation is often the last thing done in the development process if it's done at all. Often documentation is looked at as just being too expensive.

The Pelnor Help Add-in was created to address these issues. The add-in allows you to document your user interfaces as you build them.  New screenshots can be taken at any time with the push of a button. Image hyperlinks are created automatically. Controls in your program are automatically hooked up to their corresponding help topic by simply pointing the form Help Provider at the .CHM file.  Pelnor's goal is to make documentation easier to produce, faster to create, and part of the development process the whole way through.