downloading/installing C#

[medicenpringles]

I've been developing in VB.NET and VBA for about a year now, and i would like to move into C#. where do i get the download to add C# to my Visual Studio family, or where can i buy the software? i can't seem to find the hard software anywhere, but it seems i can download it free off the MSDN site. which one do i download?

 

[imterpsfan3]

If you don't want to pay for the license, there is always CSharpDevelop, a free IDE for C# that looks very similar to Visual Studio.NET. The main downside is you don't get a debugger. But I've found the applications developed on this IDE are cleaner and faster than using VS.NET.

http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/

 

[medicenpringles]

and this is the microsoft developed part of the Visual Studio Family, right?

 

[chiph]

No, SharpDevelop is a free open-source IDE.

But really, all you need to write C# code is Notepad and the .net SDK, which comes with the C# command-line compiler csc.exe

Having a nice IDE is just a time-saver.

Chip H.


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