Going Beyond the Sessions
The VSLive! Exhibitors

Unparalleled Networking and Hands-on Learning in the Exhibit Hall!

With the co-location of five sophisticated technology conferences, we're also bringing together the industry's leading software and add-on tool vendors for the .NET platform. This will be your best opportunity to get face-to-face with the companies who bring you the products and services you'll come to rely on in the coming year.

Exhibit Hall Hours:

Exhibiting Companies

activePDF
Booth # 712
activePDF Inc. is a leading provider of PDF creation, conversion and development tools, catering to the increasing demand for automated document management practices within today’s businesses.  Product Names: activePDF Server, activePDF DocConverter, activePDF WebGrabber, activePDF Toolkit 4.0 , activePDF PDFPrint, activePDF Portfolio.
www.activepdf.com

Advantage Database Server by iAnywhere
Booth # 713
Advantage Database Server is a high-performance database system that provides enterprise level functionality without the high administration costs normally associated with a relational database system. For Visual Studio developers, ADS provides powerful server-side controls available with no other database system. Stop by our booth and receive a free trial.
www.advantagedatabase.com

AlachiSoft
Booth # 620
Alachisoft designs, develops, and markets NCache and TierDeveloper for .NET. NCache, a clustered object cache for .NET, allows customers to boost performance of their applications by as much as 10 times. And, TierDeveloper, an object to relational (O/R) mapping code generator for .NET, cuts down development time by 50%.
www.alachisoft.com

AppDev
(VSLive! Sponsor) Booth #700

Exhibit Hall Reception — AppDev Party
Join us for a fun-filled reception where you can meet the participants in our exhibit hall and enjoy fine food and drink. Take the opportunity to network with your peers and talk face-to-face with the add-on tool vendors who bring you the products and services you'll rely on in the coming year.  Checkout the latest in technical training from AppDev. Free food, beverages, games and giveaways for all!
Tuesday, January 31st, 2005
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Exhibit Hall, Moscone West

For more information about AppDev, visit www.appdev.com
Make sure to visit AppDev in our booth!

Apress
Booth # 609
L.P., based in Berkeley, California, is a fast-growing publisher of technical books devoted to meeting the needs of information technology professionals. Apress is dedicated to publishing titles of the highest quality and has compiled a team of authors that reads like a veritable “Who’s Who” of the high-tech industry. For more information, visit www.apress.com

AutomatedQA Corporation
Booth #817
AutomatedQA creates TestComplete and AQtime, affordable and feature-rich tools for development and testing. Since 1999, AutomatedQA's software development tools for Windows, .NET, Delphi and Java have won numerous industry awards, including the Jolt Product Excellence Award for Best Testing Tool.
www.automatedqa.com

ComponentArt Inc.
Booth #715
ComponentArt specializes in the creation of reusable software components for Microsoft's ® .NET development platform. With their Web.UI™ suite and a brand new Charting for .NET product line – ComponentArt delivers cutting-edge web user interface controls and data visualization solutions to the Microsoft developer community.  
www.componentart.com

ComponentOne
Booth # 806
ComponentOne is a provider of a diverse set of tools for software developers who work in Microsoft® Visual Studio®, and Visual Studio .NET environments as well as Help authors who write and design Help systems.  ComponentOne's flagship development solution, ComponentOne Studio Enterprise, simplifies the design time experience with all-new .NET, ASP.NET, and Mobile Device components for Visual Studio 2005. 
www.componentone.com

Compuware Corporation
Booth # 706
Compuware Corporation is a world leader in delivering software and services that enable businesses to manage their enterprises and maximize the value of their IT assets. Compuware solutions accelerate the development, improve the quality and enhance the performance of business-driving applications. Learn more at www.compuware.com

Data Dynamics, Ltd.
Booth # 601
Since 1996, Data Dynamics, has provided award winning software tools & controls for application developers using Microsoft design environments. Our primary product focus is on Data Analysis and Information Reporting. However, we also offer User Interface development products. We are a technology innovator creating products that are easy to license and easy to use.
www.datadynamics.com

Developer Express
Booth # 716
Developer Express engineers feature-complete visual components and IDE tools for Visual Studio .NET. Our technologies help you build your best, reduce the amount of code you write, increase your productivity and create stunning applications for Windows® and the Web in the shortest possible time.
www.devexpress.com

DevelopMentor
Booth # 701
DevelopMentor has been the leading provider of advanced training for professional software developers since 1993, offering innovative training methods, comprehensive curricula and instructors who bring industry expertise and passion for sharing their knowledge to each course.  DevelopMentor offers training on new releases and current technology in .NET, Java, SQL Server and C++. www.develop.com

Dundas
Booth # 603
Dundas Software is a leading firm in the development of advanced Charting, Diagramming and Data Visualization solutions for Microsoft Technologies.  Our thoughts in the design and development of Dundas products are to help developers save time and money with elegant, well thought out, productivity enhancing components.  This is reflected in our numerous awards and rapid adoption of Dundas Technologies by Fortune 500 companies across the globe.
www.dundas.com

FarPoint Technologies
Booth # 813
FarPoint Technologies is the premier developer of Web Form, Windows Form and COM components for professional developers world-wide. Their feature-rich components offer a cost-effective solution for building enterprise-wide applications. The award-winning Spread series is utilized in more mission-critical applications than any other spreadsheet component world-wide. Stop by their booth to see how Spread can help you!
www.fpoint.com

Fawcette Technical Publications, Inc.
Booth # 614
FTP is the leading multi-media provider technical information for IT and development professionals through print (Visual Studio Magazine,  Enterprise Architect, and Java Pro); conferences (VSLive!, JavaPro Live!, Thunder Lizard and Enterprise Architect Summit); and the FTPOnline network of technical sites at ftponline.com, www.ftpmediakit.com.

Infragistics
Booth # 707
A Microsoft Certified Partner, Infragistics, Inc. ®  is the market leader in providing a broad range of presentation layer development tools and services for building applications utilizing Microsoft .NET, and Java environments.  Infragistics NetAdvantage™ toolset provides every element a developer needs to create polished Microsoft style look and feel, commercial-class user interfaces.
www.infragistics.com

InnerWorkings
Booth # 608
InnerWorkings redefines the way software developers learn and are supported in the workplace. We have created a revolutionary approach to learning by shifting the emphasis away from traditional instruction and towards structured practice, knowing by doing, and real-time code testing.
www.innerworkings.com

LEAD Technologies
Booth # 600
For over 15 years LEAD Technologies has been the world-leading supplier of imaging development toolkits. From still frame Color, Grayscale, Document, Medical, Multimedia, Vector, Mobile and Internet Imaging to advanced Printer Drivers, Imaging Utilities and Compression technology, LEADTOOLS has what you need to complete your imaging project on time.
www.leadtools.com

Microsoft Corporation
(Sponsor) Booth # 720

Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for business and personal computing. Come and experience some of this for yourself at the Microsoft booth #720 where you can speak to experts and view demonstrations of current and future technology including:

BizTalk Server 2006 – providing message pipeline design, flexible multi-format endpoint communications, orchestration design tools and built-in Business Activity Monitoring (BAM).

Visual Studio 2005 – highlighting the possibilities for Windows, Office, Web and Mobile development using the newly-launched professional development environment.

Visual Studio 2005 Team System – expanding the Visual Studio product line to help bridge the gap between Application Development roles and IT Operations.

Visual Studio Extensibility – showing how you can customize and extend Visual Studio 2005 to meet your specific development requirements.

Windows Communication Foundation – showing how to build WCF services and live demonstrations on how it can be used in your organization.

Windows Workflow Foundation – providing a programming model, engine and tools for quickly building workflow enabled application on Windows.

Microsoft Learning – providing assessments, eLearning, courses and Microsoft Press books to get up to speed quickly on the newest features of VS2005, VSTS and other core technologies.

Ravenflow
Booth # 816
Ravenflow is revolutionizing how software requirements and business processes are developed and validated. Because requirements errors are the primary cause of project failure, and budget and schedule overruns, enterprises need to detect and correct requiremets errors early. Ravenflow's Requirements Authoring and Validation Environment automatically generates UML diagrams from plain English text.
www.ravenflow.com

/n software
Booth # 816
For more than a decade /n software inc. has established itself as a leading provider of cross-platform software components for communication, security, and e-business development. /n software is committed to providing enterprise-class tools and components enabling developers to rapidly build robust Internet enabled web and desktop applications.
www.nsoftware.com

Oracle Corporation
(SA Summit Sponsor) Booth # 800
As a proud member of Microsoft's Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) program, Oracle is strongly committed to the Windows development environment, and will demonstrate this commitment with the exhibition of several key products at VSLive! (booth #800). Oracle will be hosting a Hands-On Lab for Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE), a small-footprint developer database that's free to develop, deploy, and distribute; fast to download; and simple to administer. Bring your laptop for a free installation and enter to win a free pass to Oracle OpenWorld. Plus, Oracle experts will be available to answer your questions while showcasing product demonstrations including:

• Oracle Database Extensions for .NET, a new feature of Oracle Database 10g Release 2 on Windows that makes it easy to develop, deploy, and run stored procedures and functions written in a .NET managed language such as C# or VB.NET.
• Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio.NET, a tightly integrated "Add-in" for Visual Studio .NET that brings the power of the Oracle Database to .NET developers.
• Oracle Data Provider for .NET, which features optimized data access to the Oracle database from a .NET environment, and allows developers to take advantage of advanced Oracle Database functionality, including Real Application Clusters, XML DB, and advanced security; the data provider can be used from any .NET language, including C# and Visual Basic .NET.
• Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite, a comprehensive, integrated portfolio of products that protect applications, critical systems and data from unauthorized access; products include web access control, identity administration, user provisioning, federated identity management, and directory services, including virtual directory technologies and enterprise-wide user provisioning all integrated with Active Directory.

PayPal
Booth # 612
Founded in 1998, PayPal, an eBay company, enables any individual or business with an email address to send and receive payments online securely, easily and quickly. PayPal's service builds on the existing financial infrastructure of bank accounts and credit cards and uses one of the world's most advanced proprietary fraud prevention systems to create a safe, global, real-time payment solution. PayPal has more than 86 million accounts and is available to users in 55 markets around the world. More information about the company can be found at http://www.paypal.com.
www.paypal.com/pdn

Pegasus Imaging
Booth # 812
Pegasus Imaging offers a full suite of managed .NET components for document imaging, forms processing, photo/color imaging, and medical imaging. View, capture, scan, edit, enhance, annotate, print, compress/convert (JPEG2000, TIFF, PDF, more), barcode, ICR, OCR, OMR images, medical DICOM and more! Visit www.pegasusimaging.com.

SMS.ac, Inc.
Booth # 814
SMS.ac, Inc. is host to the largest community of mobile phone users in the world, meshing together an interactive society of approximately 50 million members in 180+ countries with more than 400 mobile operators to create a global wireless communications network for the global exchange of information, products and services. Through its proprietary technology that enables micro-transactional billing and the global exchange of multimedia communications, SMS.ac is driving the mobile convergence of community and content.  SMS.ac features a global marketplace that could soon become a primary source of income for application developers around the world.  Utilizing SMS.ac’s growing community, this gateway enables developers to showcase applications they create, receiving payment from mobile consumers that can purchase using their handsets.  To view the SMS.ac corporate web site, visit www.sms.ac/corporate.

SPI Dynamics
Booth #602
SPI Dynamics’ web application security products help organizations build and maintain secure web applications, preventing attacks that would otherwise go undetected by traditional corporate Internet security measures. The company’s products enable all phases of the software development lifecycle to build, test and deploy secure web applications.
www.spidynamics.com

Software FX
Booth #719
Software FX, Inc. leads the way in bringing data visualization tools between and among diverse markets, platforms and environments. The Chart FX charting solution core products are built around specific platforms or development environments, such as COM, .NET or Java. Chart FX’s open architecture allows for the addition of Chart FX Extensions, such as OLAP, Financial, Statistical or Maps.
www.softwarefx.com

Sparx Systems
Booth #607
Sparx Systems' Enterprise Architect now integrates seamlessly into the Visual Studio 2005 IDE. With advanced modeling capabilities, support for UML 2.0 and a wealth of innovative features, Enterprise Architect and MDG Integration for Visual Studio 2005 are the premier team based modeling environment for the .NET developer.
www.sparxsystems.com

Syncfusion
Booth #801
Syncfusion leads the Microsoft .NET component industry by providing dynamic tools for every developer.  Add sophisticated grid, grouping, charting, diagramming, Microsoft Excel reporting, formula support, PDF creation, enhanced editing, HTML-rendering, and many more capabilities to your .NET Windows forms and ASP.NET applications.   The development process is smooth and straightforward with Syncfusion products.
www.syncfusion.com

Teamprise
Booth #721
Teamprise offers a suite of client applications for accessing Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System from outside the Visual Studio environment (IDE).  Previously codenamed Allerton, Teamprise enables your software development team to use the source control and work item tracking features of Team Foundation Server from other platforms, including Linux and Mac OS X, and from within the Eclipse IDE.
www.teamprise.com