Developer Product Briefs

Developer Interface v3.0, More

New products for VSM readers.

• By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
• 03/01/2006

Developer Interface v3.0
Developer Interface 3.0 is a new release of InnerWorkings' learning environment that provides a central point of access for practice sets and components. New interface features include: integration with Visual Studio 2005, a new search capability, and a streamlined code-judging process. The enhanced search capability allows developers to search the InnerWorkings' catalog of released practice sets and all associated code files. If the user is not connected to the Internet, an offline search is available. The new Judge Code menu item builds and judges a project or solution in one action. Contact vendor for pricing information.
InnerWorkings
Web: www.innerworkings.com
Phone: 925-737-0600

DevPartner SecurityChecker 2.0
DevPartner SecurityChecker 2.0 is a security analysis tool that features full integration with Visual Studio 2005, and enables development and testing tools to address vulnerabilities in ASP.NET by quickly locating and fixing security vulnerabilities early in the application lifecycle. The tool features 30 new integrity rules, including the ability to challenge "Google hacks," determine whether any hidden debugging information can be unlocked or viewed by a potential attacker, and search for cross-site scripting attacks that circumvent ASP.NET validation. Contact vendor for pricing information. Other features include the ability to pinpoint where vulnerabilities exist more precisely, as well as improved support for fighting off SQL Server injection attacks. Call vendor for pricing.
Compuware
Web: www.compuware.com
Phone: 800-521-9353

Exploring ASP.NET 2.0 Using Visual Basic 2005
AppDev's Exploring ASP.NET Using Visual Basic 2005 course provides a general overview of the powerful new features in ASP.NET 2.0. The course introduces many of the new ASP.NET server controls, shows how to incorporate the new membership, profile and personalization features, examines new data caching and databinding features, and more. This course will prepare upgrading ASP.NET developers to be productive with new features as soon as possible. Contact vendor for pricing.
AppDev
Web: www.appdev.com
Phone: 800-578-2062; 952-943-1363

NCache 2.0
NCache is an in-memory object caching tool for .NET applications that require realtime data access. It lets you cache read-only data, and also complex transactional data with relationships, so an application can cache most of its data to improve performance. New features in NCache 2.0 include: Session State management for ASP.NET with a load balancer that forwards user requests to the most appropriate server; support for clustered Session State in .NET and automatic support for different clustering topologies; and the same interface as the standard ASP.NET Session State object. Contact vendor for pricing.
Alachisoft
Web: www.alachisoft.com
Phone: 800-253-8195; 925-236-3830

Studio Enterprise 2006 v1
Studio Enterprise 2006 is a major release from ComponentOne that supports Visual Studio 2005, and includes 28 natively compiled products for new features in VS2005. Studio Enterprise 2006 includes SmartDesigners and SmartFramework that allow developers to set common properties in a component without leaving the design surface; the ability to add pointing and print-preview capabilities to Windows Forms applications; a more modular design; an enhanced object model; and tools for all application layers. The suite supports .NET, Delphi 2005, Delphi 8, and C# Builder. $999.
ComponentOne
Web: www.componentone.com/enterprise
Phone: 800-858-2739; 412-681-4343

WiredNav 3.0
WiredNav 3.0 supports Visual Studio 2005. WiredNav is a self-wiring .NET control for filling, navigating, searching, validating, updating, and reporting ADO.NET data tables. At runtime, the navigator wires itself to every data object on the Windows form to which it is added. When a user enters a DataGridView, TextBox, or other data-bound control, WiredNav switches to the correct instances of the data objects for the data bound control. Other features include setting up input validation and report management for SQL Server Reporting Services and Crystal Reports. WiredNav can connect to SQL, Oracle, OLEDB, and ODBC data adapters, and also wire to various third-party grids, including ComponentOne True DBGrid for .NET, Developer Express XtraGrid for .NET, Infragistics UltraWinGrid, Janus GridEX Control for .NET, and Xceed Grid for .NET. $199.
Red Brook Software
Web: Web: www.redbrooksoftware.com
Phone: 518-248-3450