Visual Studio Magazine 2003 Readers Choice Awards Announced
Check out the winners in 23 software development categories.
VSLive! San Francisco, February 13, 2003
Visual Studio Magazine presented its annual Readers Choice Awards Monday during FTP's VSLive! 2003 San Francisco conference. These awards, chosen by Visual Studio Magazine's readers, honor excellent software in 23 development categories, in addition to special Editors Choice awards given to new products deserving particular attention. Visual Studio Magazine editor in chief Patrick Meader said, "The biggest honor in these awards is simply that these are the products our readers say are the best. What better way to show the value in today's quality components and development tools?"
Readers Choice Awards are given to products that received the most readers' votes; Readers Choice Merit Awards, to products receiving a high number of votes that also show real value to Visual Studio Magazine readers. Editors Choice Awards are given to products that show special merit or innovation but don't fit comfortably into the standard categories. Here we list the category, the winning product, and the company. Click here to see photos of the winners.
Editor's Choice Award
VMware Workstation (VMware, Inc.)
Editor's Choice Merit Award
Books
Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming by Jeffrey Richter (Microsoft Press)
Microsoft ADO.NET by David Sceppa (Microsoft Press)
Professional ASP.NET 1.0 by Wrox Author Team (Wrox)
Readers Choice Awards and Readers Choice Merit Awards
Bug & Feature Tracking
Readers Choice Award
Rational ClearCase (Rational)
Readers Choice Merit Award
TrackRecord (Compuware)
Charting & Multimedia
Readers Choice Award
Chart FX for .NET (Software FX)
Readers Choice Merit Award
ComponentOne Chart and Web Chart for .NET (ComponentOne)
Component Suites for .NET
Readers Choice Award
ComponentOne Studio for .NET (ComponentOne)
Readers Choice Merit Award
NetAdvantage Suite (Infragistics)
Data Analysis Tools
Readers Choice Award
Crystal Analysis (Crystal Decisions)
Readers Choice Merit Award
ActiveCube (Data Dynamics)
Data Reporting
Readers Choice Award
Crystal Reports (Crystal Decisions)
Readers Choice Merit Award
ActiveReports for .NET (Data Dynamics)
Development Tools
Readers Choice Awards
SpyWorks (Desaware)
Borland TeamSource (Borland)
Grid Components—Web Forms
Readers Choice Award
ComponentOne WebGrid for .NET (ComponentOne)
Readers Choice Merit Award
Spread for Web Forms (FarPoint Technologies)
Grid Components—Win Forms
Readers Choice Award
ComponentOne FlexGrid for .NET (ComponentOne)
Readers Choice Merit Award
UltraWinGrid (Infragistics)
Help Authoring
Readers Choice Award
RoboHelp X3 (eHelp)
Imaging & Graphics
Readers Choice Award
MapObjects (ESRI)
Readers Choice Merit Awards
Document Imaging SDK (LEAD Technologies)
ImagXpress (Pegasus Imaging)
Instructor-Led Training
Readers Choice Award
AppDev
Readers Choice Merit Award
DevelopMentor
Middleware & Data Connectivity
Readers Choice Award
BizTalk Server (Microsoft)
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Four conference speakers received the Power of Ten Distinguished Speaker Award, for their contributions to VBITS and VSLive! over the last 10 years. Left to right: Marian Kicklighter, accepting on behalf of Daniel Appleman; Keith Pleas; Jonathan Zuck; and Phil Weber.
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Networking & Web Connectivity
Readers Choice Awards
Internet Component Suite (Key Technology)
IP*Works! (/n software)
Performance, Profiling, & Debugging Tools
Readers Choice Award
DevPartner Studio (Compuware)
Readers Choice Merit Award
Rational PurifyPlus (Rational)
Security & Copy Protection
Readers Choice Award
DevPower Encryption .NET (DevPower Solutions)
Readers Choice Merit Award
CrypKey (CrypKey)
Setup & Distribution
Readers Choice Award
InstallShield (InstallShield)
Readers Choice Merit Award
Wise for Visual Studio .NET (Wise Solutions)
Software Design, Frameworks, & Modeling Tools
Readers Choice Award
Microsoft Visio Enterprise (Microsoft)
Readers Choice Merit Award
Rational XDE (Rational)
SQL Databases
Readers Choice Award
SQL Server (Microsoft)
Readers Choice Merit Award
Oracle Database (Oracle)
UI Components—Web Forms
Readers Choice Award
ComponentOne Web Menus and WebBars for .NET (ComponentOne)
Readers Choice Merit Award
UltraWebNavigator (Infragistics)
UI Components—Win Forms
Readers Choice Award
ComponentOne Input for .NET (ComponentOne)
Readers Choice Merit Award
Input Pro for Win Forms (FarPoint)
Web Design & Development Tools
Readers Choice Award
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (Microsoft)
Readers Choice Merit Award
Macromedia Studio MX (Macromedia)
Web Hosting
Readers Choice Award
ASPwebhosting.com (ASPwebhosting.com)
Readers Choice Merit Awards
ActiveHost (ActiveHost)
Brinkster (Brinkster)
XML .NET Tools
Readers Choice Award
xmlspy (Altova)
Readers Choice Merit Award
Visual XSLT (ActiveState)
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