On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 04:35 -0800, BBetances wrote: > I know alot of you guys (or all) use WinBlows to develop .NET, and I > guess that's how it should be. Me on the other hand decided to try the > road less beaten, and install MonoDevelop on my Ubuntu 8 dual boot.
I've been using MonoDevelop on openSUSE to develop applications since ~2003. It was a rough road till about ~18 months ago when everything stated working very smoothly. Currently using mono-core-2.0.1-18.1.i586 & monodevelop-1.9-1.3.noarch Monodevelop does have it's own mailing list <http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monodevelop-list> which might be a good place to ask MonoDevelop specific questions. > Now, I understand that this isn't the proprietary .NET environment, > and Visual Studio really is the best IDE for development out there > (always has been), but I have a few quarrels with Mono. > First off, when working with an ASP.NET application in C#, theres no > design view. Does anyone here know anything that I don't? Nope, there isn't. If you are brave you can try <http://www.mono-project.com/AspNetEdit>. I mostly develop fat-client (Gtk#) applications, so I don't have much experience with ASP.NET. I've played with it a little; but to do so I installed the Visual Studio Web Express (or whatever it is called) in a VM and used Gaia widgets <http://gaiaware.net/> as diddling with Javascript is like going back to the stone age. > Secondly, my Intellisense doesn't work. They say it does, but it > doesn't seem to be working for me. I don't know what "Intellisense" is. If you mean context sensitive autocompletion (which is my guess as to what Win-people mean by "Intellisense"), then yes, it works great. I've heard other people have problems with this but I never have (Ubuntu people seem to have a disproportionate amount of problems with Monodevelop in general; no idea why). > I haven't had enough time to play with this IDE yet, but it's very > promising. If you run Debian or Ubuntu or whatever distro your used > to, I would highly recommend it. Maybe you have a netbook running Unix > and want to do some mile high development on your next vacation > flight. Then Mono would be for you. > Any thoughts would be appreciated. It is great; I really enjoy using Monodevelop, especially when I have to go over into Eclipse...
