Visual Studio Magazine, a provider of enterprise solutions for .NET developers, is proud to announce the winners of its 30th annual Reader's Choice Awards.

WOODLAND HILLS, CA, UNITED STATES, September 18, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Visual Studio Magazine, a provider of enterprise solutions for .NET developers and a part of Converge360, a division of 1105 Media, is proud to announce the winners of its 30th annual Reader's Choice Awards.

Visual Studio Magazine readers have once again shared their opinions on the best third-party tools, components and services to use with Microsoft’s flagship IDE in the .NET-centric software development space.

“This past year saw many new challenges for developers, including adapting to the new world of AI-assisted coding,” said David Ramel, Editor in Chief of Visual Studio Magazine. “While developers and architects are now using an array of exciting new offerings, the tried-and-true bedrock tooling for nuts-and-bolts programming is still vitally important, and our readers have once again provided a valuable, crowd-sourced synthesis of the best products and services straight from the front-line trenches.”

Across 43 categories, voters chose from hundreds of products, with the top three entrants with the most votes in each category receiving gold, silver and bronze badges, respectively.

The list of winners can be viewed below and at https://visualstudiomagazine.com/microsites/readers-choice-awards/2024/home.aspx

2024 Winners
Component Suite: Desktop (WinForms, WPF)
• Gold: DevExpress Universal Subscription
• Silver: Telerik UI for WinForms
• Bronze: MindFusion WinForms Pack

Component Suite: Web (ASP.NET, HTML5, JavaScript, XAML)
• Gold: DevExpess DXperience Subscription
• Silver: Kendo UI
• Bronze: Pro Studio .NETHTML5 + Mobile

Component Suite: Cross-Platform (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.)
• Gold: DevExpress DevExtreme Subscription
• Silver: Telerik UI for MAUI
• Bronze: Gizmox Pro Studio .NETHTML5 + Mobile

Component: Grid and Spreadsheet
• Gold: DevExpress Grid Control
• Silver: Syncfusion Essential Grid
• Bronze: MindFusion WinForms Pack

Component: Chart, Gauge, Graph and Flow
• Gold: DevExpress Chart Control
• Silver: combit List & Label
• Bronze: Telerik KendoReact Charts

Component: Imaging, Image Processing and Drawing
• Gold: LEADTOOLS Imaging
• Silver: Aspose.Imaging
• Bronze (tie): Syncfusion Image Editor
• Bronze (tie): Bronze: Telerik UI for WPF ImageEditor

Component: Mapping/GIS
• Gold: DevExpress Map Control
• Silver: ArcGIS Maps SDK for .NET (formerly known as ArcGIS Runtime SDK for .NET)
• Bronze: Syncfusion Maps Control

Component: Text, OCR, Scanning & Barcode
• Gold: DevExpress Rich Text Editor
• Silver (tie): ABBYY FineReader Engine
• Silver (tie): LEADTOOLS Barcode
• Bronze: LEADTOOLS Document Suite

Component: UI, Toolbar, Menu, Ribbon
• Gold: DevExpress Ribbon, Toolbars and Menus
• Silver: Telerik UI for WinForms RibbonBar
• Bronze: SurveyJS Dashboard

Component: Multi-Document Processing
• Gold: DevExpress Office File API for .NET
• Silver: Aspose.Total
• Bronze: Syncfusion File-Format libraries

Blazor Components and Tools
• Gold: DevExpress Blazor UI
• Silver: Syncfusion Essential Studio for Blazor
• Bronze: Nevron Open Vision for .NET

Software Design, Frameworks, and Modeling Tools
• Gold: DevExpress XAF
• Silver: PostSharp Ultimate
• Bronze: Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect

Performance, Profiling, and Debugging Tools
• Gold: JetBrains dotTrace
• Silver: SQL Diagnostic Manager
• Bronze: Redgate .NET Developer Bundle

General Development Tools (includes IDEs)
• Gold: JetBrains ReSharper
• Silver: Postman
• Bronze: Visual WebGui DevTools

Collaboration, Project Management and Agile Solutions
• Gold: Atlassian Bitbucket
• Silver: VisualSVN
• Bronze: JetBrains TeamCity

ALM, SCM and Requirements Management
• Gold: VisualSVN Server
• Silver: Micro Focus StarTeam
• Bronze: CollabNet TeamForge

BI, Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) & BI Development Studio
• Gold: DevExpress BI Dashboard
• Silver: MindFusion WinForms Pack
• Bronze: SAP Crystal Reports for Visual Studio

Bug, Defect and Feature Tracking
• Gold: Atlassian JIRA
• Silver: BugZilla
• Bronze: Redgate .NET Developer Bundle

Software Architecture
• Gold (tie): Lucid
• Gold (tie): Visual Paradigm
• Silver: Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect
• Bronze: NDepend

Software Testing and Quality Assurance
• Gold (tie): DevExpress TestCafe Studio
• Gold (tie): Telerik Test Studio
• Silver: Postman
• Bronze: Ranorex Studio

FTP, Email and Network Connectivity
• Gold: SolarWinds Serv-U File Transfer Protocol Server
• Silver: Aspose.Email
• Bronze: Catalyst Development SocketTools .NET Edition

Reporting, Analysis and Visualization
• Gold: combit List & Label
• Silver: DevExpress Reporting
• Bronze: SAP Crystal Reports for Visual Studio

Databases, Data Development and Modeling
• Gold: SQL Toolbelt Essentials
• Silver: DevExpress XPO
• Bronze: Redgate Flyway

SharePoint Components and Tooling
• Gold: ArcGIS for SharePoint
• Silver: Bamboo Project Management Suite
• Bronze: Nevron SharePoint Vision

PDF and Print/Preview Components and Tools
• Gold: DevExpress PDF Viewer
• Silver: Aspose.PDF
• Bronze (tie): MESCIUS (formerly GrapeCity) Document Solutions for PDF
• Bronze (tie): Syncfusion Essential PDF library

Mobile Development Tools and Frameworks
• Gold: DevExpress MAUI & Xamarin UI
• Silver: Gizmox Express Studio .NETHTML5 + Mobile
• Bronze (tie): Syncfusion Essential Studio for .NET MAUI
• Bronze (tie): Telerik UI for .NET MAUI

Middleware, SOA and Server-Based Tools
• Gold: JSON Essentials for COM/ActiveX
• Silver: MESCIUS (formerly GrapeCity) Document Solutions
• Bronze: CData ADO.NET Providers

Internet of Things
• Gold: .NET nanoFramework
• Silver: GHI Electronics SITCore - .NET C# on a Chip
• Bronze: Node-RED

Web Design & Development Tools and Frameworks
• Gold: DevExpress React Components
• Silver: NGINX Plus
• Bronze: Infragistics Ultimate

Productivity Tools
• Gold: DevExpress CodeRush for Visual Studio
• Silver: LINQPad
• Bronze: SmartBear ReadyAPI

Content Management Systems
• Gold: Optimizely CMS
• Silver: Orchard Core
• Bronze: Progress Sitefinity
Cloud Development Tools
• Gold: VMware vCloud Suite
• Silver: CloudMonix
• Bronze (tie): Ampere One
• Bronze (tie): OpenText Developer Cloud

Security & Copy Protection
• Gold: DevExpress .NET App Security Library & Web API Service
• Silver: Atlassian Compass
• Bronze: CrypKey Instant

Installation, Setup & Deployment Tools
• Gold (tie): InstallAware for Windows Installer
• Gold (tie): Octopus Deploy
• Silver: Redgate Flyway
• Bronze: Chef

Parallel and Multicore Development Tools
• Gold: Intel Parallel Studio XE
• Silver: PostSharp Threading
• Bronze: Imperas M*SDK Advanced Multicore SDK

Web Hosting
• Gold: GoDaddy
• Silver: Bluehost
• Bronze: DiscountASP.NET

Help Authoring
• Gold: Adobe RoboHelp
• Silver: HelpScribble
• Bronze: BoldDesk by Syncfusion

DevOps
• Gold: Dynatrace
• Silver: Postman
• Bronze: Micro Focus Enterprise Developer for Visual Studio on Azure

Developer Training Resources
• Gold: Pluralsight
• Silver: LinkedIn Learning
• Bronze: Learning Tree

Specialized Search Engines
• Gold: Elasticsearch
• Silver: Apache Lucene
• Bronze: dtSearch Engine

Containers & Docker
• Gold: Docker Development Tools
• Silver: Google Kubernetes Engine
• Bronze: Amazon Elastic Container Service

AI/Cognitive Services/Machine Learning
• Gold: TensorFlow
• Silver: Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit
• Bronze: Keras

Software Development Service Providers
• Gold: Telerik App Development Services
• Silver: iThink 365
• Bronze: jQWidgets Smart UI

Information on the 2025 Reader’s Choice Awards will be available at visualstudiomagazine.com next year.
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