Thursday, June 12, 2008

Technology: ComponentOne Studio for WinForms named `Best of Tech-Ed 2008`

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, (ANTARA News/PRNewswire-AsiaNet) - ComponentOne today announced that its Studio for WinForms was named as a winner of the "Best of Tech-Ed 2008 Developer Awards" in the Database Development by Penton Media's Windows IT Pro(R) and SQL Server Magazine(R).

The judges reviewed over 65 products and services submitted for the contest and chose 13 finalists to be interviewed at Tech-Ed 2008 Developers Conference in Orlando, Fla. The interviews were conducted June 3-4, 2008. Winners were announced on June 5 at an evening reception held at Universal Studios, Florida.

"For our seventh annual Best of Tech-Ed awards competition, we've once again seen an impressive and expanding slate of entries," said Karen Foster, group editorial and strategy director for Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine.

"We selected among the many admirable products, choosing winners that most clearly demonstrated strategic importance to the market, competitive advantages, and value to the customers."

ComponentOne Studio for WinForms is a collection of over fifty-five enterprise-ready .NET components, including charts, grids, scheduling, reporting, menus, toolbars, editors, navigation, data input, validation, and export/import.

With rich design-time support consisting of wizards, designers, and SmartTags, Studio for WinForms allows you to develop cutting-edge interfaces and highly sophisticated applications with less code and in less time than ever before.

"ComponentOne offers the widest range of data-aware components that make the development experience as smooth as possible. Being named Best of Tech-Ed 2008 clearly demonstrates that we at ComponentOne, continue to be the leaders in the component industry and have been providing award-winning products for more than 20 years," stated Chris Meredith, product manager at ComponentOne.

Key Features of Studio for WinForms
-- Over fifty-five data-aware and productivity components and controls
-- ComponentOne SmartDesigner technology for a code-free development experience
-- Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 themes to professionally style your UI
-- Broadest range of components for enhanced database application development (Grid, Charting, Reporting, and Data conversion)

ComponentOne Studio for WinForms is available for download at http://www.componentone.com and is one of the five development suites included in ComponentOne Studio Enterprise.

ComponentOne Studio Enterprise is the largest and most complete set of development components for building all layers of Windows, Web, and Mobile applications. Studio Enterprise accelerates visual development with drag and drop components that simplify the design-time experience and extend the power of Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2005.

Now you can develop cutting-edge interfaces and add the most sophisticated feature sets to your applications.

Pricing and Availability ComponentOne offers the full version of Studio Enterprise for $1,100.00 per developer. This license includes all of the controls included in our WinForms, WebForms, WPF, Mobile, and ActiveX suites and comes with a one-year subscription service that entitles you to free updates, product enhancements, and new products for the life of the subscription.

Customers with an active subscription who have registered with ComponentOne will also receive an email with instructions to access and license our new ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight, upon its release.

About ComponentOne

ComponentOne has continued leadership in the Microsoft Visual Studio component industry, and has been a premiere partner of Microsoft for over 20 years. ComponentOne's flagship product, ComponentOne Studio Enterprise is the industry's broadest and most complete suite of development components for developing all layers of Windows, Web, WPF, and Mobile applications. With the most powerful components designed for the .NET framework, Studio Enterprise delivers the tools developers need to produce next-generation UIs for Windows and the Web.

Studio Enterprise allows developers to create rich user experiences with ASP.NET AJAX-enabled Web interfaces, enterprise-level .NET Windows Forms applications, as well as newly emerging WPF and Silverlight technologies with less code and in less time. ComponentOne is also the provider of Doc-To-Help, DemoWorks, and FrontLine.

ComponentOne is a privately held company headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA. For more information on ComponentOne or its products, visit http://www.componentone.com

All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Penton Media's Windows IT Pro, the largest independent Windows IT community in the world, has Windows IT Pro as its flagship print publication. Windows IT Pro also includes SQL Server Magazine and Office SharePoint Pro. The Windows IT Pro network has 2.5 million unique visitors to its Web sites each month, and more than one million subscribers who opt-in to one or more email newsletters.

Windows IT Pro is the world's leading producer of custom road shows, paid conferences and paid workshops for Windows and SQL Server IT and developer professionals. For more information visit: http://www.windowsitpro.com Penton Media, Inc. is the largest independent business-to-business media company in the U.S., serving more than six million business professionals every month.

The company's market-leading brands are focused on 30 industries and include 113 trade magazines, 145 Web sites, 150 industry trade shows and conferences, and more than 500 information data products. Headquartered in New York City, the privately held company is owned by MidOcean Partners and U.S.

Equity Partners II, an investment fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co., LP, and its co-investors. For additional information on the company and its businesses, visit http:/www.penton.com

SOURCE: ComponentOne
CONTACT: Eve Turzillo of ComponentOne, +1-412-681-4343, PRESS@COMPONENTONE.COM
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