PITTSBURGH, March 13 /PRNewswire/ --

The leader in the Microsoft Visual Studio component industry,
ComponentOne, has been named by TechWeb as the winner of the 19th annual Jolt
Product Excellence Award in the Libraries, Frameworks and Components
category. For the past 18 years, the Jolt Product Excellence Awards have been
presented annually to products and books that have "jolted" the industry with
their significance and made the task of creating software faster, easier, and
more efficient.

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Their winning product, ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight, is the most
comprehensive suite of business and data visualization controls available.
With full-featured grids, the most powerful RichTextBox, the best maps, and
the most complete charting controls, ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight
dominates the market.

"This year was a remarkably exciting year for the Jolt Awards because 
there were so many strong contenders in every category," said Amber 
Ankerholz, SD West conference manager. "The selection of ComponentOne Studio 
for Silverlight as the winner in the Libraries, Frameworks and Components 
category puts it among an elite group of software development innovators."

"We are pleased that the judges examined the finalists in the category 
according to the standard criteria of audience suitability, productivity, 
innovation, quality, ROI, risk, and flexibility and selected Studio for 
Silverlight as the single product that is ahead of the curve, universally 
useful and rich in functionality," said Chris Meredith, product manager at 
ComponentOne.

About ComponentOne
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ComponentOne has continued leadership in the Microsoft Visual Studio
component industry and has been a premiere partner of Microsoft for over 20
years. ComponentOne's flagship product, ComponentOne Studio Enterprise, is
the industry's broadest and most complete suite of development components for
developing all layers of Windows, Web, and Windows Mobile applications. With
the most powerful components designed for the .NET Framework, Studio
Enterprise delivers the tools developers need to produce next-generation UIs
for Windows and the Web. Studio Enterprise allows developers to create rich
user experiences with ASP.NET AJAX-enabled Web interfaces, enterprise-level
.NET Windows Forms applications, as well as newly emerging WPF and
Silverlight technologies with less code and in less time. ComponentOne is
also the provider of Doc-To-Help and DemoWorks. ComponentOne is a privately
held company headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA. For more information on
ComponentOne or its products, visit http://www.componentone.com.

For additional information or to schedule an interview, please contact
Communications Manager, Eve Turzillo at +1-412-681-4343 or e-mail
press@componentone.com

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