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Xamarin's mission is to make it fast, easy and fun to build great mobile apps. Xamarin's cross-platform mobile app development software allows .NET programmers to use their existing skills and tooling to cut app development and operation time and costs by sharing code for apps running on iOS, Android and Windows phones, tablets and embedded devices. For more information visit www.xamarin.com.
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GrapeCity PowerTools is dedicated to delivering high-quality components while providing excellent support for the Microsoft.NET development community.
For over 25 years we have delivered focused products that allow software developers to embed "deep functionality" components into their applications in three critical business areas: Reporting, Spreadsheets and Analysis.
We do not try to have all things for all developers. Instead of providing a suite of many tools that address superficial application needs, we solve real business problems, by providing three professional award-winning products that are in fact, platforms for satisfying complex business requirements: ActiveReports, Spread and ActiveAnalysis.
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Syncfusion is the enterprise technology partner of choice for Windows development, delivering a broad range of .NET components and controls coupled with a service-oriented approach throughout the entire application lifecycle. Known for its extremely fast grid control, and breaking new ground in ASP.NET MVC and HTML 5 development, Syncfusion has established itself as the trusted partner worldwide for use in mission-critical applications. With releases every quarter, 24-hour support, and flexible licensing, Syncfusion can meet the changing needs of enterprises across the globe. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, Syncfusion has more than 7,000 customers including large financial institutions, Fortune 100 companies, and global IT consultancies.
Nevron Software is a global leader in component based data visualization technology for a diverse range of Microsoft centric platforms. Built with perfection, usability and enterprise level features in mind, our components deliver advanced digital dashboards and diagrams that are not to be matched. Today Nevron components are used by many Fortune 500 companies and thousands of developers and IT professionals worldwide.
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Since 1990, LEAD Technologies, Inc. has been a global leader in the imaging developer toolkit market, providing programmers with feature-rich tools to ―image-enable‖ their software applications. LEAD Technologies pioneered the fastest software-only image compression and continues to lead the field in advancing new imaging technologies and offering those technologies to programmers worldwide.
LEAD Technologies is the developer and publisher of LEADTOOLS, the award-winning line of development toolkits. LEADTOOLS is a family of comprehensive toolkits designed to help programmers integrate raster, document, medical, multimedia, vector and Internet imaging into their applications quickly and easily. LEADTOOLS gives developers the most flexible and powerful imaging technology, offering development support for File Formats (150+), Image Compression, Image Processing, Color Conversion, Image Display, Special Effects, Scanning/Capture, Common Dialogs, Printing, DICOM, Annotations, Forms Recognition, Document Clean-up, PDF, OCR, Barcode, Database, and more. The result of over 20 years of development, a LEADTOOLS toolkit literally puts millions of lines of code at the fingertips of application developers. Whatever your programming needs, LEAD has a toolkit specifically designed to give you the best imaging technology available.
At JetBrains, we have a passion for making people more productive through smart software solutions that help them focus more on what they really want to accomplish, and less on mundane, repetitive "computer busy work".
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Red Gate Software are an award-winning organisation that provides simple tools for comparing, synchronizing, packaging, backing up and recovering SQL Server databases, as well as a range of tools for developers and testers working with .NET technologies. We supply over 200,000 IT professionals with effective and reliable tools to help get jobs done and done well.
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Advanced .NET software components for data reporting, analysis and visualization.
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Dundas Data Visualization produces the world's most advanced charts, gauges, maps and calendar components for developers working with platforms like SQL Server Reporting Services, .NET and SharePoint. (These components work together to form custom dashboard solutions.) The company's outstanding success is reflected in its numerous industry awards and in the rapid adoption of Dundas technologies by Fortune 500 companies around the globe. For more information, please visit www.dundas.com.
For over 12 years, Xceed has been creating top-of-the-line COM and .NET software components. Our current repertoire of over 50 professional components are used by over 25,000 developers worldwide, including by Microsoft in many applications such as the recently released Microsoft Office Accounting Professional 2007.
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CodeSmith is a template based code generation tool. Using templates that come with CodeSmith, or templates you write, CodeSmith will author your source code (C#, VB, Java, PHP, ASP.NET, SQL, etc.) exactly how you want it. But instead of you typing out each line, CodeSmith will automatically generate it for you.
Aspose is a leading vendor of .NET and Java development components, and rendering extensions for platforms such as Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and JasperReports. The core focus of Aspose has been to offer the most complete and powerful set of file management products available.
Dynamsoft is an independant software vendor with its product line expanding from TWAIN controls to on-premise and hosting version control solutions, including SourceAnywhere Hosted, hosted SCM Anywhere and Hosting TFS. Since its foundation in 2004 in Canada, Dynamsoft products have won a lot of happy customers. Today many Fortune 500 Companies including HP, IBM, Intel, and Siemens trust Dynamsoft solutions.
Since 2005 Kellerman Software has been creating powerful .NET tools and libraries. Our mission is to provide robust and easy to use tools that save development time. Our products are ready to solve the most complex challenges for your company. Time is money, we create time.