CodeRush Named “Best of Tech-Ed 2008 Developers Award” Winner

June 6, 2008 – DevExpress today announced that CodeRush was named the winner of the “Best of Tech-Ed 2008 Developers Awards” as the Breakthrough Product of the Year by Penton Media's Windows IT Pro® and SQL Server Magazine®.

The judges reviewed over 65 products and services submitted for the contest and chose 13 finalists to be interviewed at Tech-Ed 2008 Developers Conference in Orlando FL. The interviews were conducted June 3-4 2008. Winners were announced on June 5 at an evening reception held at Universal Studios, Florida.

“For our seventh annual Best of Tech-Ed awards competition, we've once again seen an impressive and expanding slate of entries,” said Karen Forster, group editorial and strategy director for Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine. “We selected among the many admirable products, choosing winners that most clearly demonstrated strategic importance to the market, competitive advantages, and value to customers.”

“To have CodeRush awarded the Breakthrough Product of the Year at TechEd 2008 is significant,” said Julian M Bucknall, DevExpress CTO. “Our focus here at DevExpress is to deliver best-of-breed IDE tools to the software development community so that individuals and teams alike can code at the speed of thought and become more productive and efficient without a steep learning curve or unnecessary hurdles.”

About DevExpress

Build Your Best, Without Limits or Compromise

DevExpress engineers feature-complete Presentation Components, IDE Productivity Tools, Business Application Frameworks, and Reporting System for Visual Studio. Our technologies help you build your best, see complex software with greater clarity, increase your productivity and create stunning applications for Windows® and the Web in the shortest possible time.

To learn more about DevExpress and to download a free evaluation copy of CodeRush, visit us online at: www.devexpress.com/CodeRush.


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Penton Media, Inc. is the largest independent business-to-business media company in the U.S., serving more than six million business professionals every month. The company's market-leading brands are focused on 30 industries and include 113 trade magazines, 145 Web sites, 150 industry trade shows and conferences, and more than 500 information data products. Headquartered in New York City, the privately held company is owned by MidOcean Partners and U.S. Equity Partners II, an investment fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co., LP, and its co-investors.

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