| Executive Summary:
The Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine Best of TechEd Developers 2008 Awards spotlight the top SQL Server– and development-related products from Microsoft's partners. Our judges considered each finalist's strategic importance, competitive advantage, and value to customers, then chose winning products in five categories: developer tools, software components and middleware, database development tools, SharePoint development tools, and breakthrough product. In addition, attendees voted to determine the winner of the Attendees’ Pick Award. |
The Best of TechEd Awards recognize innovative
products and services offered by Microsoft
partners that exhibited at TechEd 2008
Developers.
Our judges consisted of SQL Server Magazine and
Windows IT Pro editors, who winnowed the 65 submissions
to 13 finalists. On site in Orlando, our editors
reviewed the finalists to pick winners in five categories,
including a Breakthrough Product category for the
most outstanding product of the show. The judges
evaluated the entries according to three criteria: strategic
importance to the market, competitive advantage,
and value to customers.
Best Developer Tools
Intercept Studio 4
AVIcode’s Intercept Studio 4 provides application troubleshooting
and health monitoring without requiring any
changes to application code. An essential tool for troubleshooting
and monitoring critical .NET applications,
Intercept Studio 4 captures system activity levels prior to
application errors, as well as all current system counters,
code and object values, and user parameters.
—Michael Otey
Best Software Components
and Middleware
Red Carpet Subscriptions
In the Software Components and Middleware category,
our winner is /n software’s Red Carpet Subscriptions.
This product includes the IPWorks! Internet Toolkit,
containing TCP/IP communications controls, and integration
with popular Internet business applications and
services, including PayPal, credit cards, and FedEx. It
also includes enterprise adapters for Microsoft BizTalk
Server and SQL Server Integration Services.
—Michael Otey
Best Database
Development Tools
Studio for WinForms
The Best of TechEd in the Database Development Tools
category is ComponentOne’s Studio for WinForms.
Building applications is always easier with a good
selection of tools, and Studio for WinForms includes
dozens of ready-made .NET components for developers,
ranging from calendars, menus, and tabs to
toolbars and inputs.
—Jeff James
Best SharePoint Development
Tools
K2 blackpearl
In the SharePoint Development Tools category, our
winner is K2 blackpearl. This collection of easy-to-use
tools lets developers quickly create applications that
pull together disparate systems and business processes.
K2 blackpearl can leverage your existing infrastructure
investment—including SharePoint and Microsoft
Office Forms Server—to surface the custom applications
you create.
—Jeff James
Breakthrough Product
CodeRush for Visual Studio .NET
Developer Express’s CodeRush for Visual Studio .NET
impressed our judges, and won recognition as the outstanding
product of TechEd 2008 Developers. Developing
high-quality code is hard work, and CodeRush
helps developers optimize their most valuable asset:
their time. CodeRush lets developers create, reuse, and
insert complex chunks of code in seconds.
—Jeff James
Attendees’ Pick
DXperience
Developers who attended this year’s TechEd 2008
Developers voted online for their favorite products.
After tallying the votes, Developer Express’s DXperience
emerged as the winner of the Attendees’ Pick
Award. DXperience is a subscription service that gives
developers a robust collection of predefined controls
and tools to help them build .NET applications more
quickly.
—Jeff James
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