Telerik, a leading vendor of developer tools and UI components for .NET, proudly announces that the readers of Visual Studio Magazine voted its Premium Collection for .NET as award-winning for 2009. Telerik has been acknowledged for its excellence and performance in the category—Component Suites for .NET – Desktop and Web. Visual Studio Magazine is the world’s leading independent Microsoft development magazine, targeting readers such as software professionals and developers.

The Readers’ Choice Award recognizes enterprise leaders for their products’ performance, efficiency, and innovation. Each year, based on readers’ responses and votes, Virtual Studio Magazine distinguishes winners in 22 categories. The acknowledgment received by the daily users of the products in the particular categories is the measure for satisfaction from their performance and value.

Among other Telerik’s products that were awarded are RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX and RadGridView for WinForms in the Grid Components for Web and Desktop categories, RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX in UI Components for Web category and an award for its WebUI Test Studio.

“Winning several Readers’ Choice Awards from Visual Studio Magazine for another year in a row is proves once again that we are not letting the users of our products down,” said Svetozar Georgiev, Telerik CEO. “We are honored to receive this recognition which reflects our promise to always deliver Desktop and Web tools of premium quality that facilitate the process of software development.”

Telerik’s products have won awards in numerous industry competitions, including STC Technical Art Competition, SD Times 100 Awards, aspnetPRO Readers’ Choice  Awards, etc. In strive to meet needs of software developers Telerik is continuously expanding the scope and depth of its portfolio, including UI components for ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Forms, WPF and Silverlight, Reporting Tool,ORM, Web Content Management System and Web Testing solutions.