The Top 6 C++ Builder Component Packs Available This Year

RAD Studio, C++ Builder is a C++ IDE that allows users to install 3rd party components. These components allow users to add features and functionality to their C++ apps without needing to write lots of new code. Easy to connect, easy to compile, easy to design and view tables and easy to handle many digital features. There are more than 100 C++ components, all of them are really great and they have different helps in design and programming apps. All components can be found here. Here are our favorite picks right now.

1. TwineCompile by JomiTech

TwineCompile is a good solution to speed up your compile times. The developer says it may improve your compile time up to 50 times. It integrates directly into the C++Builder IDE, where drastically reduces the compile/make/build times by employing techniques such as multi-threading, file caching and automatic background compiling.

Features:

• Advanced compile system uses multi-threading technology and caching techniques to make C++ compiles 50x faster!
• Automatic background compiling engine ensures that files are compiled as fast as they are saved!
• Tuned pre-compiled header handling system automatically maximizes simultaneous use of pre-compiled headers between multiple threads!
• Seamless integration into the C++Builder IDE. Supports all versions including C++Builder 11.0!
• Theme support for all IDE themes providing a unified workspace!
• Full support for 32-bit and 64-bit compilers!
• Parallel project build support compiles multiple projects in parallel, drastically reducing the time to build complex project groups!
• FinalBuilder integration provided out of the box!

More details can be found in their official web page here

2. TMS Software Components

TMS software, established in 1995, is a software development company specializing in:

• VCL, FMX, LCL, FNC, ASP.NET, .NET, IntraWeb component development
• Windows, Web, Android, iOS, macOS, Linux, Node.js development projects
• Training, consulting & custom project development

TMS software has a team of experienced developers with main office in Europe, Belgium as well as offices in Germany, Uruguay & Brasil.

Here are the list of great TMS VCL Components,

•  TMS Advanced Toolbars & Menus Office 2003 / Visual Studio docking toolbars & menus + Office 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 + Windows 7,8 + Metro style ribbon toolbar
•  TMS Async Fast, easy to use & lightweight asynchronous serial communications library for your Delphi & C++Builder applications.
•  TMS Cryptography Pack Software library that provides various algorithms used to encrypt, sign and hash data.
•  TMS Diagram Studio Add diagram and flowchart capabilities to your applications with an MS Visio-like interface for building diagrams from built-in or your own custom diagram blocks
•  TMS FNC Chart Fully cross-platform chart component designed for business, statistical, financial & scientific data
•  TMS FNC Cloud Pack Seamless access to cloud services from Windows, cross-platform and the web
•  TMS FNC Dashboard Pack Create dashboard applications for Windows, cross-platform and the web
•  TMS FNC Maps Hold the full power of mapping in your hand! Cross-framework, cross-platform, cross-service mapping component library
•  TMS FNC UI Pack Powerful, feature-rich UI controls in 1 component set for 3 frameworks and 5+ operating systems. Includes grid, planner, treeview, ribbon, rich editor, … and much more
•  TMS FNC WX Pack Take advantage of proven extraordinary web technology from any type of Delphi or Object Pascal application
•  TMS FlexCel for VCL & FMX Powerful, extensive & flexible component suite for native Excel report & file generation & manipulation
•  TMS GraphQL A graphing component
•  TMS Grid Pack The TMS award-winning grid, DB-aware grid, spreadsheet and associated tools in one money and time saving pack
•  TMS MQTT Cross-platform messaging client library implementing the full MQTT specification.
•  TMS PassKit Generate PassKit discount coupons, event tickets, store cards, travel tickets for iOS PassKit wallet from Delphi or C++Builder
•  TMS Query Studio Allows end-users to query your database using a friendly interface which provides automatically all tables and field names, allowing table joins, filter conditions, grouping, ordering, and more
•  TMS Scripter Add the Pascal or Basic language scripting to your applications including a full IDE with form designing, object inspector, component palette and more. You can create, design, run and debug script projects which can contain multiple scripts and forms just like a Delphi project
•  TMS Smooth Controls Pack Set of feature-rich sophisticated looking and smoothly animated visual controls including calendar, listbox, imagelist, panel, buttons, pagecontrol, LEDs, spinner, jogwheel…
•  TMS Unicode Component Pack Add Unicode support for your Delphi & C++Builder applications today with over 60 direct Unicode enabled VCL component replacements.
•  TMS VCL Chart DB and not DB-aware single or multi pane chart component featuring a wide range of chart types: Line, Bar, Area, Pie, Spider, Donut, Band, Stacked Bars, Stacked Area, OHLC, CandleStick, Histogram, Bubble, Error, Digital Line, Funnel…
•  TMS VCL Cloud Pack Seamless access to a wide range of popular cloud services from Windows applications
•  TMS VCL GUIMotions Create spectacular 3D animated user experiences in your Delphi applications
•  TMS VCL Grid Excel Bridge Import/Export Bridge for TMS Grids to Excel .XLS and .XLSX files
•  TMS VCL Instrumentation Workshop Set of over 80 instrumentation and digital components like LEDs, scopes, banners, sliders, knob controls, buttons, meters, panels, gauges and much more…
•  TMS VCL MultiTouch SDK SDK to create immersive interactive multimedia applications or public point of sale touch based information systems
•  TMS VCL Plugin Framework Framework to make building Delphi modular applications with plugin support easy
•  TMS VCL Security System User-rights management system for your Delphi & C++Builder applications. Add users, groups and set rights to perform/see functionality in your application per user or user group.
•  TMS VCL WebGMaps Easy to use and feature-rich integration of Google Maps functionality for your Delphi & C++Builder applications
•  TMS Workflow Studio Build workflow/BPM definitions/flowcharts, run workflows, create tasks for multi-user environment, follow-up tasks, keep log tracking of task changes and more. Workflow Studio integrates with an open architecture for using almost any database server and database components

Here are the list of great TMS FMX Components.

•  TMS Cryptography Pack Software library that provides various algorithms used to encrypt, sign and hash data.
•  TMS FMX Cloud Pack Seamless access to cloud services from FireMonkey applications
•  TMS FMX Grid Excel Bridge Import/Export bridge for FireMonkey grid to .XLS, .XLSX, .PDF files
•  TMS FMX UI Pack Set of highly configurable and styleable components for cross-platform FireMonkey software development including grid, planner, rich editor, memo, tableview, treeview and much more…
•  TMS FNC Chart Fully cross-platform chart component designed for business, statistical, financial & scientific data
•  TMS FNC Cloud Pack Seamless access to cloud services from Windows, cross-platform and the web
•  TMS FNC Dashboard Pack Create dashboard applications for Windows, cross-platform and the web
•  TMS FNC Maps Hold the full power of mapping in your hand! Cross-framework, cross-platform, cross-service mapping component library
•  TMS FNC UI Pack Powerful, feature-rich UI controls in 1 component set for 3 frameworks and 5+ operating systems. Includes grid, planner, treeview, ribbon, rich editor, … and much more
•  TMS FNC WX Pack Take advantage of proven extraordinary web technology from any type of Delphi or Object Pascal application
•  TMS FlexCel for VCL & FMX Powerful, extensive & flexible component suite for native Excel report & file generation & manipulation
•  TMS MQTT Cross-platform messaging client library implementing the full MQTT specification.
•  TMS iCL No compromises: 100% iOS performance, 100% iOS look, 100% iOS feel components
•  TMS mCL Set of components for true native macOS application development

3. IPWorks Components

/n Software is a software company for more than 25 years, and according to them for nearly most of Fortune 500 and Global 2000 company worldwide have used /n software products to build powerful connected applications. One of the most popular their product is IPWorks, it has very capable components for C++ Builder that developers can use for internet connectivity of all types. IPWorks makes it easy to use connection protocols and eliminates much of the complexity of developing connected applications by providing easy-to-use programmable components that facilitate tasks such as sending email, transferring files, browsing the Web, consuming XML Web services, and much more.

IPWorks IoT 2020 C++ Builder Edition is a component library that we can easily implement Internet of Things (IoT) communications protocols in our applications on any platform with this lightweight component library. One of the most popular protocol today is MQTT which is an messaging standard protocol that can be used by IoTs with different programming languages in. IPWorks IoT 2020 C++ Builder Edition has TiotMQTT component class in that this edition. We can easily establish our MQTT connections with very simple methods of this component.

IPWorks 2020 C++ Builder Edition

The most comprehensive component library for professional Internet development. For more than a decade IPWorks has been powering connectivity solutions for almost every Fortune 500 and Global 2000 company as well as thousands of independent software developers worldwide. Available for any platform – .NET/C#, Java, Python, Delphi, C++, etc.

IPWorks SSH 2020 C++ Builder Edition

Easily integrate Secure Shell (SSH) security into your Internet applications! The IPWorks SSH library includes SSH-enabled client, server, and proxy components supporting strong SSH 2.0 encryption and advanced cryptography.

IPWorks S/MIME 2020 C++ Builder Edition

A rock-solid component library for secure Email communications via S/MIME encryption and digital certificates. Using IPWorks S/MIME developers can encrypt files, emails, and even newsgroup postings as well as sign and verify message signatures using X.509 digital certificates.

IPWorks Encrypt 2020 C++ Builder Edition

IPWorks Encrypt is a powerful library of cryptography components that enable developers to easily add strong encryption capabilities to any application. Encrypt and decrypt files, emails, documents, and messages through major cryptographic standards, including S/MIME, OpenPGP, TripleDES, TwoFish, RSA, AES, etc. Complete with X.509 and OpenPGP certificate management.

IPWorks OpenPGP 2020 C++ Builder Edition

A component library for encrypting, signing, decrypting, and verifying OpenPGP messages. Support for file and in-memory operations through secure encryption algorithms, including CAST5, 3DES, AES256, AES192, AES128, IDEA, and BLOWFISH.

IPWorks SNMP 2020 C++ Builder Edition

A comprehensive library for building secure SNMP-based agent and manager applications. IPWorks Secure SNMP supports a complete range of network management capabilities, including advanced SNMPv3 security features, trap handling, and ASN-1 MIB compilation.

IPWorks BLE 2020 C++ Builder Edition

A Bluetooth Low Energy component library providing straightforward access to BLE operations. The IPWorks BLE components provide simple service discovery and access to BLE-enabled devices. Available for any platform – .NET/C#, Java, Python, Delphi, C++, etc.

IPWorks Zip 2020 C++ Builder Edition

Add advanced file and streaming compression to your applications. IPWorks Zip is a library of easy, fast, and effective components that enable developers to rapidly add compression and decompression functionality to any application.

IPWorks WebSockets 2020 C++ Builder Edition

Create real-time web connected applications with support for WebSockets. IPWorks WS is a powerful development library that includes client, server, and proxy components for building and connecting to WebSockets based applications, commonly developed and delivered through HTML5.

IPWorks Auth 2020 C++ Builder Edition

A component library for embedding secure user authentication into web, desktop, and mobile apps. Supports RADIUS, Kerberos, SAML, LDAP, and more.

IPWorks IPC 2020 C++ Builder Edition

A set of components for interprocess communications (IPC) through Named Pipes. The component library includes client, server, and external process execution components enabling straightforward peer-to-peer communication between related or unrelated processes.

Cloud Mail 2020 C++ Builder Edition

Send, receive and manage mail using popular cloud services such as Microsoft 365 (Outlook), Amazon SES, and GMail.

IPWorks MQ 2020 C++ Builder Edition

Easily implement Message Queue (MQ) communications protocols in your applications on any platform with this lightweight component library.

IPWorks IoT 2020 C++ Builder Edition

Easily implement Internet of Things (IoT) communications protocols in your applications on any platform with this lightweight component library.

Cloud Keys 2020 C++ Builder Edition

A development library containing easy-to-use components for managing keys and secrets with popular cloud services like Amazon KMS, Amazon Secrets, Azure Key Vault, Google KMS, and Google Secret Manager.

IPWorks SFTP 2020 C++ Builder Edition

A lightweight and efficient SFTP Client and Server component library which supports strong SSH 2.0 encryption and advanced cryptography.

SecureBlackbox 2020 C++ Builder Edition

Software components for Data Protection, Secure Storage, and Secure Transfer. Trusted in high security, mission critical applications for decades.

E-Payment Integrator 2020 C++ Builder Edition

Internet E-Commerce simplified. E-Payment Integrator includes components for Credit Card and Electronic Check (ACH) processing & 3-D Secure Authorization via major Internet payment gateways. Rock-solid E-Commerce components trusted by thousands of developers worldwide.

IPWorks OFX 2020 C++ Builder Edition

Build fully-integrated solutions for retrieving live financial data from banks, credit card, and investment companies. IPWorks OFX (formerly E-Banking Integrator) is a component library for Open Financial Exchange (OFX) client integration.

IPWorks EDI 2020 C++ Builder Edition

The IPWorks EDI library includes software components that facilitate Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) mapping and translation (X12 & EDIFACT), as well as the transmission of secure transactions over the Internet. The components are based on leading EDI-INT protocols for secure EDI communications such as AS2, SFTP, OFTP, RosettaNet, etc.

IPWorks X12 2020 C++ Builder Edition

IPWorks X12 includes software components that facilitate Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) mapping and translation of X12 documents. The components include flexible schema support enabling developers to use various schema formats, allowing for easier integration with existing EDI processing applications.

IPWorks EDIFACT 2020 C++ Builder Edition

IPWorks EDIFACT includes software components that facilitate Electronic Data Interchange (EDIFACT) parsing, translation, and transformation. The components include flexible schema support enabling developers to use various schema formats, allowing for easier integration with existing EDI processing applications.

IPWorks Cloud 2020 C++ Builder Edition

A development library containing easy-to-use file and document storage components for integrating with popular cloud repositories like Amazon S3, Google Drive, Azure Files, HDFS, OneDrive, Dropbox, Box.com, Backblaze B2, etc.

IPWorks S3 2020 C++ Builder Edition

A development library containing easy-to-use file and document storage components for integrating with with Amazon S3 and other S3-like services, such as Digital Ocean Spaces, Wasabi, and more.

4. DEVART Components

DEVART Company founded in 1997, Devart us currently one of the leading providers of database management software and ALM solutions for the most popular database servers. They actively participate in integration programs and cooperate with a number of software providers and resellers in the database industry to unlock limitless potential for over 500К developers in 120 countries.

EntityDAC

ORM for Delphi with LINQ support.

Universal Data Access Components

Direct access to multiple databases,

Oracle Data Access Components

Direct access to Oracle.

SQL Server Data Access Components

Direct access to SQL Server.

MySQL Data Access Components

Direct access to MySQL.

InterBase Data Access Components

Direct access to InterBase.

PostgreSQL Data Access Components

Direct access to PostgreSQL

SQLite Data Access Components

Direct access to SQLite.

Virtual Data Access Components

Extended data processing.

5. ESEGECE Components

Sergio Gómez, is an individual developer specializing with Embarcadero tools since 1999. In 2012, he started the eSeGeCe website to provide components for Delphi, CBuilder, and .NET developers. Detailed information about WebRTC can be found on their ESEGECE web page here

sgcWebSockets is a complete package providing access to WebSockets protocol, allowing to create WebSockets Servers and WebSocket Clients in VCL, .NET, Lazarus/FPC and Firemonkey applications. Supports latest HTTP/2 protocol on Server and Client components too.

• Fully functional multithreaded WebSocket server according to RFC 6455.
• Supports Firemonkey (Windows, MacOS, iOS and Android).
• Supports Linux 64.
• Supports Lazarus / FreePascal.
• Supports CBuilder.
• Supports .NET through sgcWebSockets.dll
• Supports Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera and Internet Explorer (including iPhone, iPad and iPod)
• Binary and Full Unicode Messages Support
• Message compression using PerMessage_Deflate extension.
• Multiple Threads Support
• Server component providing WebSocket, HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2.0 connections through the same port.
• Client WebSocket supports connections through HTTP Proxy Servers.
• WatchDog and HeartBeat built-in support.
• Events Available: OnConnect, OnDisconnect, OnMessage, OnError
• Built-in Javascript libraries to support browser clients.
• Easy to setup
• Javascript Events for a full control
• Async Events using Ajax
• SSL/TLS. TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 support on Server and Client components

Here are the list of their components.

WEB SOCKETS

WebSocket Client , WebSocket WInHTTP Client, WebSocket Intraweb client, Websocket Server, WebSocket + HTTP Server, LoadBalancer Server, Proxy Server, IOCP Indy Server, HTTP.SYS Server

PROTOCOL MQTT

MQTT Client

PROTOCOL WAMP

WAMP 2.0 Client, WAMP 1.0 Server, WAMP 1.0 Client

PROTOCOL WEBRTC

WebRTC Server, AppRTC Server

PROTOCOL STOMP

STOMP Client, STOM RabbitMQ Client, STOMP ActiveMQ Client,

PROTOCOL AMQP

AMQP Client

BUILT-IN PROTOCOLS

SGC Protocol Server, SGC Protocol Client, Dataset Server, Dataset Client, Files Server, Files Client, Presence Server, Presence Client.

WEBSOCKET APIs

SGC Protocol Server, SGC Protocol Client, Dataset Server, Dataset Client, Files Server, Files Client, Presence Server, Presence ClientSocket.IO Client, Bitfinex Client, Pusher Client, Blockchain Client, SignalR Client, SignalRCore Client, Binance Client, Binance Futures Client, Coinbase Pro Client, Bitstamp Client, Huobi Client, CEX Client, Bitmex Client, FXCM Client, Kraken Client, Discord Client, FTX Client, RCON Client, CryptoHopper Client

OTHER APIS

Telegram Client

Server APIS

RTCMultiConnection Server

IOT

AWS IoT Client, Azure IoT Client

HTTP PROTOCOL

HTTP/2 Client, OAuth2 Client, OAuth2 Server, JWT Client, JWT Server, AWS SQS Client, Google Pub/Sub Client, Google Calendar Client

DATASNAP

WebBrokerBridge Server, WebBrokerBridge + HTTP/2, WebBrokerBridge + HTTP.SYS

P2P

UDP Client, UDP Server, STUN Client, STUN Server, TURN Client,TURN Server

OTHER FEATURES

SChannel, OpenSSL 1.1 + TLS 1.3, OpenSSL 3.0 + TLS 1.3, ALPN Protocol

6. MITOV Software Componnents

Anothet great company is Mitov Software, they released new versions of a lot of great components for the RAD Studio 11 in December 2021. Mitov Software is specialized in development of high performance software and Data Flow solutions involving:

• Video Processing
• Audio Processing
• Digital Signal Processing
• Real Time Data Acquisition
• Communications
• Process Control
• Computer Vision
• Artificial Intelligence
• Data Visualization 
• Visual Instrumentation
• Parallel and Grid Computing
• Hardware Control

Here are some of their great components,

OpenWire Studio is not just for software developers! — a graphical development and execution environment that contains the powerful stream processing technology that we have been perfecting for over a decade.  No other software compilers or IDEs are required!  

AnimationLab is a set of components which enables time-line based animation and events with almost zero lines of code! Use AnimationLab to perform animations and tie in time line events to trigger component states and properties.  The mass effect component allows you to apply effects to the 3d Firemonkey components easily when working in conjunction with the timeline.

The ControlLab package provides Industrial Automation components for use in development.

VideoLab is a set of components for complex video processing with almost zero lines of code.  With VideoLab you can do just about anything imaginable: synthesize, capture, process, and analyze; mix, listen, visualize and more.

SignalLab is a set of components for very fast digital signal processing (DSP). The library allows very fast complex signal manipulations and visualization with zero lines of program code.

AudioLab is a set of components for fast audio processing with almost zero lines of code.  With AudioLab you can do just about anything imaginable: synthesize, capture, process, and analyze; mix, listen, visualize and more. 

Logic lab is a set of components which assist in decision making in the applicaiton. Make use of various components to perform logical operations in an application, from simple Xor logic to complex magnitude comparer calculations.

VisionLab is a set of components for computer vision.   VisionLab allows rapid development of fully featured motion detection applications for the security industry, scientific and other applications. 

PlotLab is a set of very fast data plotting / charting / graphing components.  Add sophisticated interactive graphs, charts, plots, and waterfalls to your VB.NET, C#, Visual C++, Delphi and C++ Builder applications with minimal effort.

InstrumentLab is a set of visual instruments and controls based on GDI+. The Delphi / C++ Builder version is a set of native VCL components.

IntelligenceLab is an Artificial Intelligence library that can be used for data grouping, SPAM filters, computer vision, speech recognition, or any other classification task.

BasicVideo is a set of components for fast video capture, recording and playback. The library allows very fast complex video manipulations with zero lines of program code.

The Communication Lab package provides communication components for use in development.

BasicAudio is a set of components for fast audio processing. The library allows audio capture and playback with zero lines of program code.

and more can be found in https://mitov.com/products section.

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