IDE ??

[shediiwork]

What seem to be the preferred IDE of choice?

[Mark Pollack]

Hi,

I actively use VS.NET with Resharper (http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/) ($99) , TestDriven.NET (http://www.testdriven.net/) (free) , and QuickCode (http://www.dvxp.com/en/QuickCode.aspx) (free) add-ins.


I just started playing around with the Borland/Together.NET add-in (http://www.borland.com/products/downloads/download_together.html) ($200), primarily for generating UML class diagrams, though it is a round trip tool and has many other features. I never tried the Clover.NET (http://www.cenqua.com/clover.net/) add-in ($250 entry - free for open source projects) but use it actively via its html reporting features.

If anyone says vi or emacs ..... :wink:

Cheers,
Mark

[shediiwork]

Thanks Mark for the reply. I really wanted to see what this community is utilizing. I'm hoping for an Eclipse or Open Source Software solution.


vi is great on non-windows systems.

[Griffin Caprio]

Mark, I actually use vi on my powerbook to develop spring.net with mono. so there :->

Actually, as you can see here: http://blog.griffincaprio.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=91d946e9-66f1-4d78-8554-d4fe8104fa16 I have tried to get some non-vs.net tools to work, but to no avail.

SharpDevelop is pretty good, though, and that's open source.

[jonas_antonsson]

I'm using a similar setup to Mark's. That is:

Vs.NET, Resharper (which is a great plugin btw - it really is a livesaver some times. The IDE from the same company Intellij for Java really rocks as well), NUnit and NDoc. I am also using NHibernate for O/R mapping.

[Aleks Seovic]

Nothing fancy on my side either :)

VS.Net, ReSharper, NUnit, NAnt, TestDriven.Net...

Definitely no vi or emacs ;)

[Rick Evans]

Yeah, I've got pretty much the same setup as Aleks.

I also use Lutz Roeder's Resourcer (http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/) plugin for editing resx files. The Reflector plugin (see preceding link) is also pretty nice for delving into the innards of the various assemblies on ones box.

As for using any other IDE's for this project, its not really feasible it is? You could use say, Eclipse with a C# plugin, but that doesn't use the Visual Studio solution file... as such, any files that one might add to the project would get committed, but when one of us who uses VS.NET updates his / her source tree, the files will come down but they won't appear in the VS.NET solution. Bummer.

As for Java IDE's (that old chestnut :D), I've also (on a very on-off basis) been grokking the Eclipse 3.0 codebase... man, Eclipse just makes one want to write a plugin. I even (briefly) entertained the idea of writing a Spring.NET GUI, but canned it just as fast because, fun though it would be, no .NET developers are really gonna touch such a tool are they? Sure the developers moving into .NET from Java who have been exposed to Eclipse and Spring might buy into it, but certainly the majority of the developers I encounter on a daily basis wouldn't use anything that didn't plug into Visual Studio.

Ciao
Rick

[Mark Pollack]

Yea, doubtfull that any .NET developer will fire up eclipse to edit a .NET config file. (Though a Spring.NET add-in similar to the eclipse one would be great...) On a related topic, the idea of an eclipse like plug-in model for .NET would really rock. Erik Radmall has been toying around with such ideas - I spoke to him recently and he should hopefully be back in 'spring' action soon...

- Mark