Studio Enterprise by ComponentOne Named 'Best of Tech-Ed 2008 Developer Awards Finalist'...

Studio Enterprise by ComponentOne Named 'Best of Tech-Ed 2008 Developer Awards
Finalist' by Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazines

PITTSBURGH, May 20 /PRNewswire/ -- ComponentOne today announced that its
Studio Enterprise was named as a finalist of the "Best of Tech-Ed 2008
Developer Awards" in the Software Components & Middleware by Penton Media's
Windows IT Pro(R) and SQL Server Magazine(R).
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The Best of Tech-Ed 2008 Awards recognize companies who offer innovative
products in the industry. The judges reviewed over 65 products and services
submitted for the contest and chose 13 finalists to be interviewed at the
Tech-Ed 2008 Developers Conference in Orlando, Fla. Winners will be announced
on June 5 at an evening reception for all of the finalists and at
www.WindowsITPro.com/awards on
June 6.
"Choosing from such a wide variety of outstanding entries is a challenge
every year, and the quality of this year's entries was particularly high,"
said Karen Forster, group editorial and strategy director for Windows IT
Pro and SQL Server Magazine. "The products selected as finalists
clearly provide innovative solutions and strategic importance to the market,
are competitively advantageous, and provide exceptional value to customers."
Targeting all development environments and all applications layers from
data to presentation, reporting, navigating, transformation, and more,
ComponentOne Studio Enterprise provides exactly what developers need to
deliver the rich experiences users demand. It includes five development
platforms and a spell-checking add in for Visual Studio in one:
ComponentOne Studio for WinForms
Create cutting-edge UIs and display mission-critical data

ComponentOne Studio for ASP.NET
Deliver innovative Web-style applications with AJAX-based components

ComponentOne Studio for WPF
Revolutionize data presentation with a blend of intelligence and style

ComponentOne Studio for Mobile
Rapidly develop .NET Compact Framework-based application interfaces

ComponentOne Studio for ActiveX
Build data-aware applications with over 35 legendary ActiveX controls

ComponentOne IntelliSpell
Spell-check code, comments, strings, HTML, XML, resources, and general
text in Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008
"We understand what developers need, and that's why we deliver the most
complete suite of components with five development platforms in one with
Studio Enterprise. For over 20 years, ComponentOne has been the leader
developers turn to when they want to create the ultimate application," stated
Chris Meredith, product manager at ComponentOne.
Features & Benefits
Save time with the easy-to-use components
Drag-and-drop components equipped with SmartTags, wizards, designers, and
more. Our extensive design-time support saves you from having to write a lot
of UI code.
With little effort, consistently style your Smart Client and Rich
Internet applications
Take your applications to the next level in visual design with the new
2007 Microsoft Office system and the Windows Vista user interface themes. An
entire application theme can be applied by setting one property value.
Benefit from enhanced database application development
UI components can be bound to data sources without writing code. Replace
the traditional ADO.NET dataset with ComponentOne DataObjects, and increase
your application's performance. Access, scroll, and browse millions of
database records instantly.
Accelerate your development skills with a unified suite of
components
Studio Enterprise is an integrated suite of development components that
share a common framework. The consistent object models and documentation
reduce the learning curve when developing across application platforms.
Guaranteed most recent access to the latest components and controls
With an annual product subscription you receive updated components and
controls throughout the year.
Unparalleled Platinum support
No matter how sophisticated your applications become, our unparalleled
technical support will help to ensure your ongoing success.
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: 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 www.penton.com.
SOURCE ComponentOne

Eve Turzillo of ComponentOne, +1-412-681-4343, press@componentone.com