IDE's for .NET 1

[imterpsfan3]

I was wondering if there are third-party free IDE's for .NET or namely C# for building Windows applications. My present workplace would like to use .NET but doesn't want to pay for the license yet. I know there are free IDE's with ASP.NET, such as Web Matrix. Thanks in advance. Writing out all the code in notepad would be a nightmare.

 

[imterpsfan3]

I noticed there was a program called SharpDevelop that is a free IDE. Has anyone worked with it?

 

[Ruffnekk]

SharpDevelop is quite comprehensive and absolutely free, with the look and feel of Visual Studio. There are some minor issues why I'm not using it (yet) though, one being not auto-completing enumerations, which means you have to memorize any enumerations you made or any system enumerations. But it's in full development (open source!) and I'm sure issues like this will be solved in the future.

Regards, Ruffnekk
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Is it my imagination or do buffalo wings taste just like chicken?

 

[imterpsfan3]

Thanks for your input.

 

[imterpsfan3]

I have downloaded and I am quite amazed at how good it is. I'm not sure how it works with large projects. How could I get something like the crystal report document included in the toolbox?

 

[stevexff]

The major downside to #develop is the lack of a debugger. Some people can't live without one, but if you are using NUnit, you can probably manage OK.

But apart from that, it's pretty good.

 

[imterpsfan3]

What is NUnit?

 

[stevexff]

Automated unit testing. Every time you do a build, you run the unit tests, to see if your new code has broken anything.

See

http://www.nunit.org

 

[imterpsfan3]

Does anyone know if this SharpDevelop is legal according to Microsoft? I would think they would be battling against something like this.

 

[earthandfire]

Why?

Borland have a version of C# and have an IDE that can run C# and Delphi.Net (and maybe VB.Net (I'm not sure about that though))

 

[cappmgr]

This may interest you,

http://www.csharp-station.com/Tools.aspx

Marty

 

[chiph]

NUnit is code testing goodness.
You should write tests for anything that could possibly go wrong.

Chip H.


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