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2011 Community Choice Awards
DevProConnections readers pick their favorite developer products of 2011
ITPro Today Staff
November 21, 2011
7 Min Read
Our annual awards program -- the DevProConnections Community Choice Awards -- lets our readers select their favorites from a range of developer products that are nominated by the developer and vendor community. This year, more than 6,200 members of the DevProConnections developer community cast their votes in 26 product categories, spanning a wide spectrum of offerings. Two perennial contenders, Developer Express and Telerik, continued their longtime rivalry in this year's voting, taking both Gold and Silver awards in many categories -- thus maintaining their dominance in the developer market. But many other terrific products made impressive showings in all categories.
Choosing favorites from such a competitive field-not to mention in the midst of such a financially unstable market-can be a challenge, but this year's winners show an uncommon breadth of functionality and originality. Products succeed when they meet a genuine need in the market and, as these Community Choice selections demonstrate, many products do just that for Windows developers.
Best Charting and Graphics Tool
Best Content Management System
Best Memory Management/Profiling Product
Best Project Management/Defect Tracking Tool
Best SharePoint Development Tool
Best Training Resource or Book
Best Add-In
GOLD: CodeRush • Developer Express • www.devexpress.com
SILVER: JustCode • Telerik • www.telerik.com
BRONZE: ReSharper • JetBrains • www.jetbrains.com
Other hot products in this year's survey:
Infragistics' NetAdvantage Ultimate
Gizmox's Visual WebGui
Best Charting and Graphics Tool
GOLD: XtraCharts Suite • Developer Express • www.devexpress.com
SILVER: RadChard for ASP.NET AJAX • Telerik • www.telerik.com
BRONZE: Infragistics NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization • Infragistics • www.infragistics.com
Other hot products in this year's survey:
ComponentOne's Chart
Steema Software's TeeChart Pro
Best Chat Application
GOLD: Skype • Skype • www.skype.com
SILVER: Google Talk • Google • www.google.com
BRONZE: Windows Live Messenger • Microsoft • www.microsoft.com
Other hot products in this year's survey:
Microsoft Lync
Trillian
Best Code Editor
GOLD: Visual Studio 2010 • Microsoft • www.microsoft.com
SILVER: Notepad++ • SourceForge.net • www.notepad-plus-plus.org
BRONZE: Eclipse • The Eclipse Foundation • www.eclipse.org
Other hot products in this year's survey:
Adobe's Dreamweaver
IDM's UltraEdit
Best Communication Tool
GOLD: Skype • Skype • www.skype.com
SILVER: Outlook 2010 • Microsoft • www.microsoft.com
BRONZE: Gmail • Google • www.google.com
Other hot products in this year's survey:
Facebook
Google+
Best Community Resource
GOLD: The Code Project • The Code Project • www.codeproject.com
SILVER: MSDN • Microsoft • www.microsoft.com
BRONZE: StackOverflow • StackExchange • www.stackoverflow.com
Other hot products in this year's survey:
Telerik Community
DevExpress Community
Best Component Set
GOLD: Telerik Ultimate Collection for .NET • Telerik • www.telerik.com
SILVER: DXperience Universal • Developer Express • www.devexpress.com
BRONZE: NetAdvantage Ultimate • Infragistics • www.infragistics.com
Other hot products in this year's survey:
ComponentOne's Studio
Syncfusion's Essential Studio Enterprise Edition
Best Content Management System
GOLD: SharePoint 2010 • Microsoft • www.microsoft.com
SILVER: Joomla! • Joomla! • www.joomla.org
BRONZE: DotNetNuke • DotNetNuke • www.dotnetnuke.com
Other hot products in this year's survey:
Kentico CMS
BlogEngine.NET
Best e-Commerce Package
GOLD: Magento • Zeon Solutions • www.zeonsolutions.com
SILVER: Kentico CMS • Kentico • www.kentico.com
BRONZE: nopCommerce • nopCommerce • www.nopcommerce.com
Other hot products in this year's survey:
Shopify
DotNetInvoice
Best Email Control
GOLD: EmailVerify.NET • EmailVerify.NET • www.emailverify.net
SILVER: Aspose.Network for .NET • Aspose • www.aspose.com
BRONZE: IP*Works! • /n software • www.nsoftware.com
Other hot products in this year's survey:
Advanced Intellect's aspNetEmail
AfterLogic MailBee.NET
Best Forum Application
GOLD: Kentico CMS • Kentico • www.kentico.com
SILVER: YAF.NET • YetAnotherForum.NET • www.yetanotherforum.net
BRONZE: vBulletin Forum • vBulletin Solutions • www.vbulletin.com
Other hot products in this year's survey:
Vanilla Forums
Countersoft's Atlas
Best Grid Tool
GOLD: radGrid for ASP.NET AJAX • Telerik • www.telerik.com
SILVER: DevExpress XtraGrid • Developer Express • www.devexpress.com
BRONZE: WinGrid for Windows Forms • Infragistics • www.infragistics.com
Other hot products in this year's survey:
ComponentOne's FlexGrid
SyncFusion's Essential Grid
Best Hosting Service
GOLD: ASP.NET Hosting • DiscountASP.NET • www.discountasp.net
SILVER: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) • Amazon • www.amazon.com
BRONZE: Web Hosting • Go Daddy • www.godaddy.com
Other hot products in this year's survey:
WinHost.com
Hosting.com
Best IDE Product
GOLD: Visual Studio 2010 • Microsoft • www.microsoft.com
SILVER: Delphi XE2 • Embarcadero Technologies • www.embarcadero.com
BRONZE: Eclipse IDE • The Eclipse Foundation • www.eclipse.org
Other hot products in this year's survey:
Oracle's MySQL Workbench
Apple's Xcode
Best Memory Management/Profiling Product
GOLD: JustTrace • Telerik • www.telerik.com
SILVER: ANTS Memory Profiler • Red Gate Software • www.red-gate.com
BRONZE: dotTrace Memory • JetBrains • www.jetbrains.com
Other hot products in this year's survey:
SciTech Software's .NET Memory Profiler
Best Navigation Control
GOLD: ASP.NET AJAX Navbar Control • Developer Express • www.devexpress.com
SILVER: RadMenu for ASP.NET AJAX • Telerik • www.telerik.com
BRONZE: Menu • ComponentOne • www.componentone.com
Other hot products in this year's survey:
Wijmo jQuery Menu
Intersoft Solutions ClientUI Navigation Controls
Best Online Editor
GOLD: RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX • Telerik • www.telerik.com
SILVER: ASPxHtml Editor • Developer Express • www.devexpress.com
BRONZE: FCKeditor • Drupal • www.drupal.org
Other hot products in this year's survey:
Infragistics' WinEditors
CKSource's CKEditor
Best Printing/Reporting Tool
GOLD: XtraReports • Developer Express • www.devexpress.com
SILVER: Telerik Reporting • Telerik • www.telerik.com
BRONZE: SQL Server Reporting Services • Microsoft • www.microsoft.com
Other hot products in this year's survey:
Fast Reports' FastReport.NET
SAP Crystal Reports 2011
Best Project Management/Defect Tracking Tool
GOLD: Team Foundation Server 2010 • Microsoft • www.microsoft.com
SILVER: JIRA • Atlassian • www.atlassian.com
BRONZE: OnTime • Axosoft • www.axosoft.com
Other hot products in this year's survey:
Fog Creek Software's FogBugz
JetBrains' YouTrack
Best Scheduling/Calendar Tool
GOLD: .NET XtraScheduler Suite • Developer Express • www.devexpress.com
SILVER: RadScheduler for ASP.NET AJAX • Telerik • www.telerik.com
BRONZE: Outlook 2010 • Microsoft • www.microsoft.com
Other hot products in this year's survey:
Google Calendar
ComponentOne's Scheduler
Best Security Product
GOLD: VeriSign SSL • Symantec • www.symantec.com
SILVER: Dotfuscator Professional Edition • PreEmptive Solutions • www.preemptive.com
BRONZE: Nessus • Tenable Network Security • www.tenable.com
Other hot products in this year's survey:
Alt-N Technologies' SecurityGateway
Binary Research International's SoThin Secure Desktop
Best SharePoint Development Tool
GOLD: Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX • Telerik • www.telerik.com
SILVER: Studio for SharePoint • ComponentOne • www.componentone.com
BRONZE: Aspose.Total for SharePoint • Aspose • www.aspose.com
Other hot products in this year's survey:
Idera's SharePoint productivity toolbox
Iron Speed Designer
Best Silverlight Product
GOLD: RadControls for Silverlight • Telerik • www.telerik.com
SILVER: DXperience Silverlight • Developer Express • www.devexpress.com
BRONZE: Expression Blend • Microsoft • www.microsoft.com
Other hot products in this year's survey:
Infragistics' NetAdvantage for Silverlight
ComponentOne's Studio for Silverlight
Best Testing/QA Tool
GOLD: Telerik's Test Studio • Telerik • www.telerik.com
SILVER: ANTS Performance Profiler • Red Gate Software • www.red-gate.com
BRONZE: Infragistics' TestAdvantage for Windows Forms • Infragistics • www.infragistics.com
Other hot products in this year's survey:
Automation Anywhere's Testing Anywhere
SmartBear Software's AQtime
Best Training Resource or Book
GOLD: Pluralsight .NET training • Pluralsight • www.pluralsight-training.com
SILVER: Wrox books • John Wiley & Sons • www.wrox.com
BRONZE: Safari Books Online • Safari Books Online • safaribooksonline.com
Other hot products in this year's survey:
AppDev OnDemand
Telerik's Training
Best Utility
GOLD: SQL Compare • Red Gate Software • www.red-gate.com
SILVER: ReSharper • JetBrains • www.JetBrains.com
BRONZE: Beyond Compare • Scooter Software • www.scootersoftware.com
Other hot products in this year's survey:
ComponentOne's XapOptimizer
FileZilla
Best Free Tool
GOLD: Notepad++ • SourceForge.net • www.notepad-plus-plus.org
SILVER: Firebug • Firebug • www.getfirebug.com
BRONZE: Skype • Skype • www.skype.com
Other hot products in this year's survey:
Dropbox
Eclipse
Best Vendor Support
GOLD: Telerik • www.telerik.com
SILVER: Developer Express • www.devexpress.com
BRONZE: Fast Reports • www.fast-report.com
Other hot vendors in this year's survey:
Kentico
Infragistics
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