When we meet each month, our members enjoy excellent speakers, free food, and great prizes all thanks to our sponsors. We are so lucky to be part of an industry that is so supportive to the community.
DevExpress provides a suite of awesome controls for Winforms, Asp.Net, WPF and Silverlight. They also provide Reporting, Charting, Business App Frameworks and, of course, Code Rush with Refactor Pro. Their products and support for the development community are great. Please check them out at www.devexpress.com.
TekkFusion is a full-service professional staffing firm providing contract and direct hire staffing solutions for hiring organizations and career management for job seekers. They sponsor and attend our meetings so you can meet them in person to discuss your next career opportunity. You can check out their web site at tekkfusion
Pluralsight is the global leader in high-quality online training for hardcore developers. The revolutionary Pluralsight training library provides developers with instant access to a rich collection of online training courses delivered by industry authorities. See what you can learn at pluralsight.com and join the @pluralsight community on Twitter.
Telerik is a leading vendor of User Interface (UI) components for Microsoft .NET technologies – ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, WinForms and WPF, and .NET Reporting and content management solutions. In fact, this web site is built on the Telerik SiteFinity tool.
Be sure to check out telerik.com and play with their online demos or download free trial versions of their products.
Applied Innovations is a Boca Raton, FL based web presence provider (web host) that specializes in hosting on the Windows Server platform. They are a great supporter of the .Net community and are hosting this very web site. Please visit them at appliedi.net
SiteFinity, by Telerik, is the Content Management System that we used to build the OneTug.org web site. It's powerful and easy to use. Please check them out to learn more at sitefinity.com.
The O'Reilly User Group & Professional Association Program supports the good work of user and professional groups by providing:
Apress supports user group education and training efforts. Thanks to Apress, we benefit from:
Please visit the apress.com community link
Component One is a leading supplier of components for all kinds of .Net Applications. Their DevTools line of products includes components for WinForms, WPF, Asp.Net, Silverlight, iPhone and more. They also have an excellent line of Documentation Tools as well as an innovative set of Sharepoint components.
Please check them out at componentone.com
Red Gate Software makes ingeniously simple tools for over 500,000 Microsoft technology professionals working with SQL Server, .NET, and Exchange. The company’s product line includes tools for comparing, synchronizing, backing up and recovering SQL Server databases; understanding and fixing .NET code problems; and email archiving for Exchange. www.red-gate.com.
GrapeCity is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, a Premier Visual Studio Industry Partner, an international award-winning software firm, and the world’s largest provider of developer components and tools that includes the ActiveReports and Spread product lines.
Mindscape builds excellent developer tools like Silverlight Elements, WPF Flow Diagrams, LightSpeed, WPF Elements and much more. Go check them out and get a free copy of VS File Explorer. Their web site is: mindscape.co.nz.
Wrox Press is committed to supporting the programming community. As part of that commitment, they've developed the Wrox User Group Program to support the efforts of user groups like ours. They've donated tons of great books and will give our members generous discounts. Please check them out at wrox.com
Established in 1994, Atlantic.Net is a market-leading business data services provider known for exceptional service, simplifying complex technologies and building a brand that people trust. Atlantic.Net operates a 25,000-square-foot colocation Data Center in Central Florida and helps businesses around the globe with their advanced online needs through services including dedicated servers, server colocation, managed Servers, Internet connectivity, business continuity, and managed services such as data backup, security and private networks.
Atlantic.Net’s services enable companies to focus on their core business and forgo the expense of capital equipment purchases and ongoing IT management costs. Atlantic.Net’s technological savvy and strategic acumen have been the foundation for its reputation and profitability since 1994.
Check them out at www.atlantic.net
Perpetuum has great tools like Report Sharp-Shooter and Report Sharp-Shooter for Silverlight. They also have a Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services which is pretty sweet! Check them out at perpetuumsoft.com.
If you're doing anything with Silverlight then you need to check out the Document Toolkit for Silverlight and Silverlight Spy. Silverlight Spy is a runtime inspector tool providing unprecedented access to all aspects of any Silverlight application. Explore the UI element tree, monitor events, extract XAML, interactively execute DLR code, view statistics and more, much more.
While you're there, you can get the source code for Silverlight P2PLib (Live messenger interoperability) and Silverlight Slideshow. firstfloorsoftware.com
Aurigma has an awesome suite of File Upload components and Image Processing tools. Their graphics SDK, Graphics Mill, lets you do all kinds of processing on images. Their file upload solutions include Image Uploader Flash, Express, Professional and Premium. They also have a File Downloader and a ready-made photo business solution for photo labs. Please check them out at http://www.aurigma.com/
JetBrains, has 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". Their products include productivity tools like ReSharper, dotTrace and more. Check them out at jetbrains.com
Software FX provides top-of-the-line data visualization tools like Chart FX, Grid FX and Chart FX Gauges (plus many more.) Their tools are available for Asp.Net, Sharepoint, Silverlight and WPF. Please check out their web site at softwarefx.com
Thanks to Julie Yack at Colorado Technology Consultants for providing copies of Silverlight 3 Jumpstart and XRM as a Rapid Development Platform. These boosk are well written and a must-read for our members. Click the links above to get your physical or e-copy of these great books.
Sql Sets is an innovative new tool for anyone who uses Sql Server. It lets you take snapshots of your Sql Server data and send them around for viewing in their custom viewer. There are tons of uses for this tool so check them out at sqlsets.com
Steema Software publishes the award winning TeeChart charting software for developers. This awesome tool is available for a number of platforms including VCL, AX, JAVA, PHP and of course, .Net. Please check them out at steema.com
Obout provides a modern and complete suite of Asp.Net and Asp.Net MVC Controls including input, navigation and more. Their input controls have a very modern look and feel and their suite includes several cool and uncommon controls such as the flyout and image zoom controls. Definitely check them out at obout.com.
Xceed has been creating top-of-the-line WPF, .NET, Silverlight, and COM software components. Their current product line has over 65 professional components, which are used by over 50,000 developers worldwide. Be sure to check out their flagship products, the Xceed DataGrid for WPF and Xceed DataGrid for Silverlight at xceed.com
VIBlend develops and provides numerous state-of-the-art controls for WPF, Silverlight and Windows Forms including DataGrid, Input Control Suites, Menus, Treeviews, Calendars and more. Please check them out at viblend.com.
Founded by industry experts in 2001, Syncfusion, Inc. provides the broadest range of enterprise-class software components and tools for the Microsoft .NET platform. With Syncfusion, developers can move beyond simply coding applications to delivering real business innovation—the elegant user interfaces, business intelligence dashboards, and sophisticated reporting that today's business users need, in the formats they demand. Their award-winning .NET components and controls are designed to meet your evolving development needs, whether you're working in Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, or Silverlight. Check them out at syncfusion.com.
Aspose offers a complete and powerful set of file management products which support some of the most popular file formats in business, including: Word Documents, Excel Spreadsheets, PowerPoint Presentations, PDF Documents, Flash Presentations and Project Files. Leverage their expertise and components to implement incredible functionality within .Net application. Check them out at aspose.com.
Noemax builds an amazing line of products to enhance WCF and streamline communication. Their WCF-Xtensions tool lets you accelerate your web services, FastInfoSet gives you a compact and fast drop-in encoding library and DotNetCompression gives you higher compression ratios than the classes built into .Net. If you are doing anything with web communications, you have to check them out at noemax.com.
Visifire is a set of data visualization controls for Silverlight and WPF. Using the same API, charts in Mobile, Web & Desktop environments can be created within minutes. When you go to their web site at visifire.com be sure to check out their online chart designer and you'll be blown away by the amzaing charts that you can produce. If you're working on Windows Phone 7 applications, you'll be glad to know that they support Windows Phone 7 as well.
If you are doing anything with Windows Azure, the first tools you'll want to have are the Cloud Storage Studio and Azure Diagnostics Manager. If you want to get to Sql Server from your browser, please check out Omega.MSSQL. All of their tools are highly polished, professional and examples of how nicely written WPF/Silverlight applications should work. Check them out at cerebrata.com.
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Linxter has created innovative solutions built on the Windows Azure platform including the Linxter cloud messaging platform, the MonitorGrid server health monitoring service and the SmoothDough payment processing system
These are high-performance, scalable and reliable solutions that you can leverage today. Check them out at linxter.com
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