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Visual Studio Magazine Unveils 2011 Readers Choice Award Winners

Microsoft developer community selects their preferred programming tools.

11/01/2011

Irvine, CA, Nov. 1, 2011 - Visual Studio Magazine (VSM) today announced the winners of its 19th annual Readers Choice Awards. The 2011 winners are chosen by the readers of VSM and honor the best Visual Studio-related tools in 28 categories.

"We rely on Visual Studio Magazine subscribers to drive our annual Readers Choice Awards, because they are among the most demanding and knowledgeable developers on the planet," said VSM Editor in Chief Keith Ward. "Tools are critical to developers, and the market’s constantly evolving. So when a product earns recognition in our survey, it really means something. These tools have proven themselves out where it really counts—not in a reviewer’s lab, but in the field. The winners in this year’s VSM Readers Choice Awards have demonstrated they’re the best of the best."

"The Readers Choice survey is closely monitored," said Vice President of Publishing Matt Morollo. "There is no ballot stuffing or vendor voting. In sum, the goal is to provide the readers a clear representation of the marketplace and its best-of-breed tools. In my opinion, the results are a reflection of marketing ROI. In the 'cost per' age, the vendors that have sustaining campaigns, across relevant media—F2F, online, print, SEO, reseller and so on—or the most targeted and broad footprint in the overall industry are showing ROI via the developer influencers in the community who participated in the survey."

VSM presented two awards per category:

  • Readers Choice Award, given to products that received the most reader votes
  • Merit Award, given to products receiving a high number of votes that also show real value to VSM readers

The awards are based on the responses of hundreds of select VSM subscribers. An e-mail invitation was sent to subscribers and responses were collected from Sept. 14 to Sept. 22, 2011. The online ballot, which was compiled by the editors of VSM, included more than 600 products.

The winners are highlighted in the November issue of VSM. The full article is also available online at:
http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2011/11/01/2011-readers-choice-awards.aspx.

Here is the list of winners for each individual category:

Any product with an asterisk was among the winners in the same category in 2010.

COMPONENT SUITE: DESKTOP
Readers Choice Award: Developer Express Inc., DevExpress DXperience Enterprise*
Merit Awards:
Infragistics, NetAdvantage for .NET: Win Client*
Telerik, RadControls for WinForms

COMPONENT SUITE: WEB
Readers Choice Award: Telerik, RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX*
Merit Awards:
Developer Express Inc., DevExpress DXperience ASP.NET
Infragistics, NetAdvantage for .NET: Web Client*

GRID & SPREADSHEET COMPONENTS
Readers Choice Award: Developer Express Inc., DevExpress XtraGrid Suite*
Merit Awards:
Telerik, RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX
Infragistics NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization*
ComponentOne, ComponentOne FlexGrid*

CHART, GAUGE & GRAPH COMPONENTS
Readers Choice Award: Developer Express Inc., DevExpress XtraCharts Suite*
Merit Awards:
Infragistics, NetAdvantage for WPF Data Visualization*
Telerik, RadChart for Silverlight

IMAGING, IMAGE PROCESSING & DRAWING TOOLS
Readers Choice Award: LEAD Technologies, Inc., LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro SDK*
Merit Awards:
Accusoft Pegasus, ImageGear for .NET*
Atalasoft, DotImage

MAPPING/GIS COMPONENTS
Readers Choice Award: Esri, ArcGIS API for Silverlight/WPF*
Merit Awards:
Telerik RadMap for Silverlight
Esri, ArcGIS Desktop

TEXT, OCR, SCANNING & BARCODE COMPONENTS
Readers Choice Award: LEAD Technologies, Inc., LEADTOOLS Document Imaging Suite SDK*
Merit Awards:
Developer Express Inc., DevExpress Rich Text Editor*
Accusoft Pegasus, Barcode Xpress*

UI, TOOLBAR, MENU & RIBBON COMPONENTS
Readers Choice Award: Developer Express Inc., DevExpress XtraBars Suite*
Merit Awards:
Telerik, RadMenu for ASP.NET AJAX
ComponentOne, ComponentOne Menus and Toolbars*

SOFTWARE DESIGN, FRAMEWORKS & MODELING TOOLS
Readers Choice Award: Developer Express Inc., DevExpress eXpressApp Framework*
Merit Awards:
IBM Rational Software, Rational Rose Developer for Visual Studio*
Sparx Systems, Enterprise Architect*

PERFORMANCE, PROFILING & DEBUGGING TOOLS
Readers Choice Award: Red Gate Software, ANTS Performance Profiler Pro*
Merit Awards:
Telerik, JustCode JetBrains, dotTrace*

GENERAL DEVELOPMENT TOOLS
Readers Choice Award: JetBrains, ReSharper*
Merit Awards:
Developer Express Inc., DevExpress CodeRush*
Red Gate Software, Red Gate Reflector

COLLABORATION, PROJECT MANAGEMENT & AGILE SOLUTIONS
Readers Choice Award: Telerik, TeamPulse
Merit Awards:
VisualSVN Limited, VisualSVN - Subversion Integration for Visual Studio
(Tie) IBM Rational Software, IBM Rational ClearQuest; JetBrains, TeamCity*

ALM, SCM & REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT
Readers Choice Award: IBM Rational Software, IBM Rational ClearCase*
Merit Awards:
Perforce Software, Perforce Software Configuration Management System*
AccuRev Inc., Microsoft Visual Studio Plug-in for AccuRev

SOFTWARE TESTING & QUALITY ASSURANCE
Readers Choice Award: Telerik, Telerik Test Studio*
Merit Awards:
VMware Inc., VMware vCenter Lab Manager
(Tie) TechExcel Inc., DevTest StudioSeapine Software TestTrack TCM; NCover, NCover*

FTP, E-MAIL & NETWORK CONNECTIVITY
Readers Choice Award: /n software, IP*Works!*
Merit Awards:
Xceed, Xceed FTP for .NET*
GoDaddy.com, Go Daddy Email*

REPORTING, DATA ANALYSIS & VISUALIZATION
Readers Choice Award: Developer Express Inc., DevExpress XtraReports Suite*
Merit Awards (Tie):
SAP AG, SAP Crystal Reports*
Telerik, Telerik Reporting*

DATABASE, DATA DEVELOPMENT & MODELING
Readers Choice Award: Red Gate Software, SQL Source Control*
Merit Awards:
Telerik, OpenAccess ORM
Embarcadero Technologies, Embarcadero ER/Studio XE2

SHAREPOINT TOOLS & COMPONENTS
Readers Choice Awards (Tie):
ComponentOne, ComponentOne Studio for SharePoint
Dundas Data Visualization Inc., Dundas Chart for SharePoint Dundas
Merit Award:
Esri, ArcGIS Mapping for SharePoint

PDF & PRINT/PREVIEW
Readers Choice Award: Developer Express Inc., DevExpress XtraPrinting Library*
Merit Awards:
ComponentOne, ComponentOne PDF for .NET*
activePDF, activePDF Products*

MOBILE DEVELOPMENT TOOLS
Readers Choice Award: Telerik, RadControls for Windows Phone
Merit Awards:
Infragistics, NetAdvantage for Windows Phone 2011
ComponentOne, ComponentOne Studio for Windows Phone

MIDDLEWARE, SOA & SERVER-BASED TOOLS
Readers Choice Award: SAP BusinessObjects, SAP Crystal Reports Server*
Merit Awards:
Vista Software, Apollo .NET*
ComponentSpace, ComponentSpace SAML Single Sign-On Suite

WEB DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT TOOLS
Readers Choice Award: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe Dreamweaver*
Merit Awards (Tie):
DotNetNuke Corp., DotNetNuke Professional Edition*
Telerik, Sitefinity ASP.NET CMS*

WINDOWS AZURE & CLOUD DEVELOPMENT TOOLS
Readers Choice Award: Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Merit Awards:
VMware Inc., VMware vCloud
VMware Inc., VMware vCloud Express

SECURITY & COPY PROTECTION
Readers Choice Award: Red Gate Software, SmartAssembly*
Merit Awards:
GoDaddy.com, Code Signing Certificates*
Hewlett-Packard Co., HP DevInspect

INSTALLATION, SETUP & DEPLOYMENT TOOLS
Readers Choice Award: Flexera Software, InstallShield*
Merit Awards:
Symantec, Wise Package Studio*
InstallAware, InstallAware Developer*

HELP AUTHORING
Readers Choice Award: Adobe Systems Inc., RoboHelp*
Merit Awards:
ComponentOne, Doc-To-Help*
Innovasys, HelpStudio*

TRAINING
Readers Choice Award: AppDev Products LLC*
Merit Awards:
Pluralsight
New Horizons Worldwide Inc.*

HOSTING SERVICES
Readers Choice Award: GoDaddy.com Inc.*
Merit Awards:
DiscountASP.NET
Amazon Web Services

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Keith Ward, Editor in Chief
410-292-0250
kward@1105media.com

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