#develop - An Alternative IDE

[dilettante]

Has anyone taken a look at SourceForge's open source .Net IDE alternative called #develop yet?

A search on "SharpDevelop" should get you there.

VB.Net support is there but weak. C# support is a bit better. It looks like a decent alternative to NotePad and manual compiles for those who are cheap/poor and honest.

I understand they hope to port it to Mono as well, providing an open source multiplatform development environment with some good chunks of .Net functionality.

Consider: Download the .Net Framework 1.0 SDK (free), #develop (free), Web Matrix (free)... and you have perhaps a nice little learning environment for students. Maybe even a production development suite for people with tight budgets.

Of course #develop is no VS.Net, but it beats NotePad.

I just installed it last night so I can't advocate it yet. Just wanted to pass the word. I'd love to see opinions of this thing.

 

[RiverGuy]

I haven't yet. I was thinking about it, but then I was thinking about the IDE for ASP.Net from

http://www.ASP.Net

as well.

 

[dilettante]

That's Web Matrix. Good for creating simpler ASP.Net applications, though not as sophisticated as what VS.Net offers.

#develop is more for creating Windows Forms applications, libraries, services (as in NT services, not web services), and console projects.

 

[bbegley]

Demo for another C# environment (not free, or probably even cheap).

http://www.borland.com/csharpbuilder/

Brian
"There are 2 kinds of people in the world, those that divide people into two groups and those that don't. I belong to the second group." - tag line I stole

 

[RiverGuy]

That C# builder looks pretty nice. The intellisense seems very good on the demo they showed.