If you're familiar with C++, then did you know that you can create some stunning widgets with it using an application like wxWidgets.

wxWidgets is a C++ programming environment which enables the creation of multi-platform applications with and without a graphical user interface. The developer says that he was motivated to design the program after the failure of other similar programs to help create dialogs visually. In particular, it was the limited set of widgets and impossibility to include non-graphical components which wxWidgets skillfully sidesteps. The key to the appeal of wxWidgets that most programmers will appreciate is the fact that it stores information in XML documents which, as the developers point out, eases the modification of both the properties of an object and the generated code without needing to recompile. In this way, the code creates templates which can be used over and over again to create variations on just one widget. If you're not familiar with C++, none of this will mean much but if you're in the know, it's an effective way to create some truly impressive widgets.

Stay away if you don't know C++ but for professional programmers, this is one of the fastest ways to create good looking desktop widgets.

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Bloodshed Dev-C++ is a full-featured programming environment and compiler for creating software in C++. Included in the Dev-C++ environment are all of the standard features necessary for writing, compiling, debugging, and executing programs written in C. Strictly for the hard-core C++ programmer, Dev-C++ allows you to compose all of your source code without many of the hand-holding features and expenses included in many of the available programming environments.

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The Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 has been replaced by Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition. Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition provides a complete integrated development and debugging environment making it the easiest way to create powerful applications using the C/C++ language. Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition also contains an enhanced version of the C/C++ optimizing compiler for the fastest executables. Best of all, the Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition is completely free.

Visual designers enable drag-and-drop creation of user interface code when building .NET Framework applications. Code colorization, syntax checking, IntelliSense and more help you code quickly and correctly. Quickly find and eliminate programming errors using an intuitive graphical debugger.

Create .NET Framework applications with advanced features such as data access, networking, and built-in printing support. Build 32-bit native code applications designed for Windows using the Windows Platform SDK.

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Resource leaks. Even a robust Windows-based application is not safe from them. Of all bugs they are the most difficult to find especially when they appear in graphics device interface (GDI) objects and menus. And as we all know, the earlier you catch bugs, the less expensive they are. Plenty of tools exist to help track down memory leaks. But there are very few good tools to help track GDI resource leaks that can ruin performance on any Windows operating system. Deleaker is one of them and the fact that it almost doesn't slow down your application makes it your natural choice.

Deleaker is a run-time error detection and debugging tool for Visual C++ developers. Deleaker is a really useful add-in for Visual Studio 2003-2005 that helps you to analyze programming errors, many of which are unique to Visual C++. With Deleaker you can detect and localize resource leaks such as memory, GDI and USER objects, handles.

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Would you like to create your own embedded database application in Visual C# using SQLite and its ADO .NET Data Provider? SQLite is a small C library that implements a self-contained, embeddable, zero-configuration SQL database engine.

In the .NET-framework, you can use the free i.e. BSD Licensed, Finisar.SQLite, an ADO.NET Data Provider for SQLite to access SQLite databases. The demo program is a fully functional program that uses SQLite for keeping a database of C# code snippets. The SQLite database that comes with the demo program contains some C# code snippets from the program's C# source codes.

The registered version of this package contains the step-by-step fully commented example source codes for a complete Visual C# program that shows you how to create your own C# program and use an ADO.NET Data Provider to access SQLite databases. Both SQLite version 2 and version 3 databases are supported.

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Active Query Builder is a query builder component suite for Borland Delphi and C++ Builder which gives your end-users the ability to create complex SQL queries containing unions and sub-queries via an intuitive visual interface. It can be integrated with your application by setting a few properties or a few lines of code. Free Edition is fully functional, but supports only the ANSI-92 SQL dialect. The product is shipped with detailed help system.

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wxWidgets gives you a single, easy-to-use API for writing GUI applications on multiple platforms. Link with the appropriate library for your platform (Windows/Unix/Mac, others coming shortly) and compiler (almost any popular C++ compiler), and your application will adopt the look and feel appropriate to that platform. On top of great GUI functionality, wxWidgets gives you: online help, network programming, streams, clipboard and drag and drop, multithreading, image loading and saving in a variety of popular formats, database support, HTML viewing and printing, and much much more.

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Tired of VB? Do you want to make the switch to C# and get better support, tighter code, and maybe even make more money? As the name suggests, VB.Net to C# Converter allows you to convert your existing VB.Net code to C# automatically.

The program gives you complete control of the conversion process. There are literally dozens of different conversion options you can control, from how ref arguments and with statements are handled, to how much you want to eliminate dependencies on the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace.

Each release is rigorously tested on hundreds of thousands of lines of VB.Net code. Virtually every line of sample code Microsoft releases is tested, along with many real world projects and sample code from third party vendors.

Comprehensive reporting is available every step of the conversion process. Before conversion, your code is scanned and you are warned about anything in your code which could be a problem. During conversion, you are not left to guess what we did to your code. Anything of interest done during the conversion is reported. After conversion, any C# compiler errors is also reported.

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Looking for a simple and fast way to indent and export your C/C++ code into various file formats? Look no further than C++ Code Export, a unique and easy to use software to quickly and easily reindent, export (10+ formats supported) and print your C/C++ documents, convert them to PDF, RTF, images and more!

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Alvas.CDBurn for .Net is a collection of 100% native CLR compliant controls written in C#. Collection allows C# and VB.Net developers to create applications that record files to the writable CD (CD-R and CD-RW). Easy to use.

Package contains: CDBurner is a component for burning writable CD.

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IXFile is a software component that facilitates file input/output. With IXFile, software developers can quickly and easily perform common file operations like reading, writing and finding data of various types, resizing, positioning, locking and others. Most of file activities can be acomplished with just a single call of a method because all necessary support is handled internally by IXFile.

IXFile is designed as data-oriented component; each file access method is available in several versions for commonly used data types. Such approach greatly simplifies programming and eliminates errors because data is handled internally according to its type - developer just makes use of appropriate method and does not have to know how data is stored in memory. Even access to complex structured data can be acomplished with a single call. Operating system, by contrast, supports generic file data access; you must know exact size and internal representation of data for correct processing.

IXFile is available as a COM component and C++ library to be used with Visual Studio 6.0 (or higher) programming tools, Active Server Pages and scripting languages. Unicode support allows easy integration with applications designed for international markets. Threading support enables development of multithreaded applications. IXFile can operate on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP platforms.

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Digital Mars is a fast compiler for the Windows environment. It includes a linker, a librarian, standard and Win32 header files, runtime linkable libraries, a standard template library, the MicroEmacs editor, and more.

Features of the app:

• Support for Win32, Win16, DOS16 and DOS32 all in one package
• Fastest compile/link times in the industry
• Powerful optimization technology with register allocation and instruction scheduling
• Design by Contract added into C++
• SGI's Standard Template Library 3.3
• STLport 4.5.3 (for Win32)
• Integrated development and debugging environment (IDDE)
• Project Express
• Resource Studio
• Express Agents for generating MFC apps
• Documentation in browsable HTML format
• Tutorials and sample code

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CMATH is a comprehensive library for complex-number arithmetics and mathematics, both in cartesian and in polar coordinates, for C/C++ and Pascal/Delphi compilers. CMATH is available as a stand-alone product. It is also included in the OptiVec package.

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VectorC is a high performance C/C++ compiler which offers the fastest possible gains from the latest in processor features without having to use assembly language. VectorC recognises parallelisms in standard C/C++ source code and generates vectorized code for the supported CPUs.

Create super-fast SSE, SSE2, MMX and 3DNow

Enhanced applications from standard C/C++ source code

Mix and match

VectorC{PC}, Visual C/C++ 6.0 and GCC compiled C/C++ source code

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Develop vector code that can be recompiled for all PC processors and PlayStation®2

As a 'smart compiler', VectorC automatically utilises advanced CPU features and negates the need for time consuming assembly language programming. VectorC{PC} also supports our Codeplay Portable Intrinsics. These intrinsic functions generate vector instructions from C/C++ source code. But, they are portable, so you can recompile for different vector instruction sets and even non-vector instruction sets as well.

VectorC is normally used within Microsoft Visual Studio™ 6.0 , and offers 100% compatibility. It can be used as a replacement for the Microsoft Visual C/C++ compiler, either over the whole project or on a per-file basis.

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