30th Annual Visual Studio Magazine Reader's Choice Awards Announced -- Visual Studio Magazine

30th Annual Visual Studio Magazine Reader's Choice Awards Announced

By David Ramel
09/18/2024

For the 30th year in a row, Visual Studio Magazine readers have chosen the best tools and services for developers. The 2024 winners are honored in 43 categories, from component suites to testing tools to AI helpers.

The longevity of the awards program is a testament to the value of crowdsourcing, in this case trusting front-line users themselves to vote on what helps them be successful, not editors or pundits or the PR/marketing crowd.

The winners are a mix of long-time favorites and newcomers, reflecting the ever-changing landscape of software development. While some might not be familiar, others have been around for decades and have been officially recognized by Microsoft. For example, the company's documentation for the Blazor UI component ecosystem mentions Telerik, DevExpress, Syncfusion, Infragistics, GrapeCity and JQWidgets as top component vendors. All are winners in this year's awards.

Along with Blazor and its parent ASP.NET Core framework for the web, other winning products are associated with mobile, cloud, DevOps and much more.

Along with the product ratings, survey respondents were asked a series of open-ended questions to glean even more first-hand information.

Go here to access the 2024 Reader's Choice Awards, and see if your favorite products and services are on the list, as well as those you might want to try based on the votes of your peers. There's no better source of information about tool selection than the opinions of fellow developers working on the front lines.

About the Author

David Ramel is an editor and writer for Converge360.

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