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Exhibitors Strut Their Stuff
Dozens of vendors showcased their latest products at VSLive! San Francisco. Here is a sampling of some of the hot items on the market today.
by Nick Fuentes
VSLive! San Francisco, February 10, 2005
Product vendors, in an effort to keep pace with the ever-evolving technology industry, face the difficult task of developing a product that not only remains useful to existing customers, but that also attracts new ones. At VSLive! San Francisco 2005, dozens of vendors turned out to show off their wares and prove they're meeting the challenge of helping further this dynamic industry.
This year, one hot topic is mobility. CV Vick of Intel says issues surrounding wireless and mobility are becoming focal points in the technology industry, particularly the concept of "platformization." As mobile development increases, with Tablet PCs, PDAs, and even cell phones becoming standard development tools, he says connecting these various systems together—for instance, to determine how much bandwidth or power is available from various sources—depends on the ability to have these different platforms communicate with one another. Platformization, he says, will enable this to happen.
Supporting this mobility theme are products such as Agilix's InfiNotes and GoBinder SDK. InfiNotes is a set of ink note-taking .NET controls that lets you easily write Tablet PC apps by dragging controls into Windows Forms or Web Forms from within Visual Studio. GoBinder SDK is based on Agilix's GoBinder product. It is fully .NET-enabled, with APIs that change and enhance the UI, data objects, and a "mobilizer component" that lets you synch data from any source to Windows. Agilix's Mark Calkins says these products illuminate the move toward mobile Tablet PC development, which "simulates the note-taking experience and drops nonverbal barriers as opposed to a laptop." He asserts that the Tablet PC simply will become an extension of the laptop, possibly even as ubiquitous as the mouse has become since its inception.
Sybase also debuted several products at this year's conference, including PocketBuilder—which is designed specifically for building Pocket PC apps, with integration for peripheral devices such as cameras, barcode scanners, and fingerprint recognition—and DataWindow .NET, which is a reporting and presentation tool you can use as an alternative to the .NET datagrid.
Also of Interest
xThink Calculator 1.1 uses the pen-based technology of the Tablet PC to solve handwritten math problems, and MathJournal expands on this with additional functionality, including plotting, symbolic math, integrals, and the ability to define constants and functions.
Versant Open Access .NET is an object-oriented mapping tool that is fully integrated with Visual Studio.
Stonefield Query is a non–platform specific end-user reporting tool you can integrate into database applications that lets nontechnical users create rich reports.
AutomatedQA's TestComplete is a functional testing tool that integrates with Visual Studio Team System and checks for memory leaks, simulates user actions, and sends developer notifications.
Intrinsyc offers plugins for Visual Studio .NET in one centralized environment that locate Java objects, generate proxies, find runtimes, and run under Eclipse thanks to bidirectional bridging technologies.
AppDev's KSource offers the ability to provide training over the Web, eliminating the need for CDs and cumbersome installations; it sports a small file size that limits bandwidth usage.
Aquifer 5.4 from Systems Management Engineering is a platform for Visual Studio that provides a secure SOA with prebuilt Web services and scales better than a browser application.
Dotfuscator 3.0 from PreEmptive Solutions is a code-protection application that supports Visual Studio 2005 and uses watermarking to embed a user-specified fingerprint into .NET applications.
About the Author
Nick Fuentes is editorial project manager for FTPOnline. Reach him at ftponlinedit@fawcette.com.
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