Visual Studio Magazine Announces 2008 Readers Choice Award Winners

Business Wire, June 27, 2008

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IRVINE, Calif. -- 1105 Media Inc.'s Visual Studio Magazine announced the winners of its 16th annual Readers Choice Awards. The 2008 winners, which will appear in the August issue, are chosen by Visual Studio Magazine's readers and honor the best Visual Studio-related tools in 22 categories.

"These awards are especially noteworthy because it is the people who use these products day in and day out, the developers in the trenches, who select the products they consider the best in their respective categories," said Editor in Chief Patrick Meader. "We respect the work of all the vendors who help make the Visual Studio third-party marketplace so robust and dynamic. Their efforts save countless hours and untold amounts of money for professional developers everywhere."

Visual Studio Magazine presented awards in three categories:

* Readers Choice Awards, given to products that received the most readers' votes

* Readers Choice Merit Awards, given to products receiving a high number of votes that also show real value to Visual Studio Magazine readers

* Editors Choice Awards, given to products that shows special merit or innovation, but don't fit comfortably into the standard categories

The awards are based on the responses of 539 Visual Studio Magazine subscribers. An e-mail invitation was sent to 23,000 randomly selected subscribers and responses were collected from April 28 to May 2, 2008. The ballot, which was complied by the editors of Visual Studio Magazine, included more than 400 products.

The full article is available online at: http://visualstudiomagazine.com/features/article.aspx?editorialsid=249 1 (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.)

Here is the list of winners for each individual category:

Editors Choice Award

AppDev's K-Source

BUG AND FEATURE TRACKING

Readers Choice Award

IBM Rational ClearQuest - IBM Rational

Readers Choice Merit Award

DevTrack - TechExcel

FogBugz - Fog Creek Software

CHARTING & MULTIMEDIA

Readers Choice Award

Chart FX Gauges for .NET - Software FX

Dundas Chart for .NET - Dundas Software

Readers Choice Merit Award

WebChart for ASP.NET - ComponentArt

COMPONENT SUITES FOR .NET--DESKTOP AND WEB

Readers Choice Award

NetAdvantage for .NET - Infragistics

Readers Choice Merit Award

ComponentOne Studio Enterprise - ComponentOne

RadControls for ASP.NET + WinForms + Telerik Reporting - Telerik

DATA EDITING, REPORTING & ANALYSIS TOOLS

Readers Choice Award

Crystal Reports for Visual Studio - Business Objects

Readers Choice Merit Award

ActiveReports for .NET - Data Dynamics

DATA, NETWORK AND WEB CONNECTIVITY

Readers Choice Award

IP*Works! - /n software

Readers Choice Merit Award

.NET Internet Component Suite - ComponentSpace

DEVELOPMENT TOOLS

Readers Choice Award

VMware Workstation - Vmware

Readers Choice Merit Award

ReSharper - JetBrains

GRID COMPONENTS--WEB FORMS

Readers Choice Award

Grid FX - Software FX

Readers Choice Merit Award

ASPxGridView Suite - Developer Express

GRID COMPONENTS--DESKTOP

Readers Choice Award

Spread for Windows Forms - FarPoint Technologies

Readers Choice Merit Award

Xceed Grid for .NET - Xceed

XtraGrid Suite - Developer Express

HELP AUTHORING

Readers Choice Award

RoboHelp - Adobe

Readers Choice Merit Award

ComponentOne Doc-To-Help Enterprise - ComponentOne

IMAGING & GRAPHICS

Readers Choice Award

Dundas Gauge for .NET - Dundas Software

LEADTOOLS Document Imaging Suite - LEAD Technologies

Readers Choice Merit Award

ImagXpress - Pegasus Imaging

INSTALLATION, SETUP & DEPLOYMENT TOOLS

Readers Choice Award

InstallShield - Acresso Software

Readers Choice Merit Award

Wise Package Studio - Altiris

INSTRUCTOR-LED TRAINING

Readers Choice Award

AppDev

Readers Choice Merit Award

Global Knowledge Network

MIDDLEWARE & SERVER-BASED TOOLS

Readers Choice Award

Crystal Reports Server - Business Objects

Readers Choice Merit Awards

StarTeam - Borland

MOBILITY TOOLS & FRAMEWORKS

Readers Choice Award

ComponentOne Studio for Mobile - ComponentOne

Readers Choice Merit Award

Pocket Chart FX for .NET - Software FX

PDF TOOLS

Readers Choice Award

PDF Creator - Amyuni Technologies

activePDF Tookit - activePDF

Readers Choice Merit Award

PDFXpress - Pegasus Imaging

PERFORMANCE, PROFILING & DEBUGGING TOOLS

Readers Choice Award

ANTS Profiler - Red Gate Software

DevPartner Studio Professional Edition - Compuware

Readers Choice Merit Award

IBM Rational PurifyPlus

SECURITY & COPY PROTECTION

Readers Choice Award

Dotfuscator - PreEmptive Solutions

Readers Choice Merit Award

VMWare ACE - VMWare

SOFTWARE DESIGN, FRAMEWORKS & MODELING TOOLS

Readers Choice Award

CA ERwin Data Modeler - Computer Associates

Rational Rose Developer for Visual Studio - IBM Rational

Readers Choice Merit Award

PowerBuilder - Sybase

UI COMPONENTS--WEB FORMS

Readers Choice Award