On Wednesday 29 June 2005 14:51, Mark Galbreath wrote: > Visual Studio is by far the best IDE for .NET available (especially if you > know someone with an MSDE Subscription and get it fer free ;-) ). There is > at least one open source .NET IDE I ran across on Sourceforge.
Yes, I saw the #devel package but it's focus is on Windows.Forms apps, with very patchy support for Web.Forms - I'm looking for something a little tighter :) > With VS.NET > you will have to code on Windoze workstations and have to use SourceSafe as > version control, OK that's workable I guess. It's possible then to extract code from SourceSafe from a Linux client? i.e. so that we can have 'releases' of our software to live servers? > but the assemblies are more portable to Linux servers than > an equivalent scenario in Java. > Nevertheless, your comment about "new and shiny" begs the question. :) I will tread very lightly here because programming languages are as personal as choice in music :) There is a strong feeling amongst our devels to try something new for a variety of reasons, one of which is enhancing their own skillset - the career options for a long-time PHP programmer aren't great. My own feelings are that if we continue to use PHP, then old habits will continue to slip in. I would rather use something which mandates the use of objects and structure. > IMHO, C# is, in its 2.0 version, more functional than Java 5.0 (though the > two keep leap-frogging each other). How is Mono coming along with 2.0 support? Usable or still rather patchy at present? I guess (hope) we can expect a final 2.0 release a couple of months after MS's own beta programme ends... > However, C# is an OPEN STANDARD and > Java is NOT. Given a choice, I'll always go for open standards. <nod> I would always kick against any talk here of servlets or JSP... > Finally, have you considered Python and ActiveState's Komodo IDE? Great > combination, especially for Linux! Python gets glowing reports from everyone I've spoken to, but C# and .NET seems to be the way we're headed - again due mainly to how C# experience would be rated on a CV... Cheers, Gavin. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
