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Journal by jawtheshark on Wednesday April 26, 2006 @05:05AM

I was wondering what I need to develop .NET applications. I just want to toy around and see what this C# thing is like. Not that I need it, I'm still a Java guy, but broadening ones horizons can't be all that bad.

The thing is: I do not want to shell out money for an IDE, nor pirate one. Preferably, just a command line compiler and my favourite editor.... I have the .NET Framework v2.0 installed.

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Express editions (Score:1)

by arb ( 452787 ) writes:

Go to msdn.microsoft.com and hunt for the Express Editions of the Visual Studio products. They are free and seem pretty decent IDEs...
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  by jawtheshark ( 198669 ) * writes:
  
  You mean this? [microsoft.com] Okay, I will look into it, but I hoped there would have been a way to develop C# without having a fully fledged Visual Studio. (I like the fact that I can code Java without anything more than javac and an editor...)
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    by arb ( 452787 ) writes:
    
    Well, the Express Editions should also include the command-line compiler and you can use vi to edit the files if you like. If you dig through the msdn site, you should find the information on getting at the compiler that you need. From memory, all the Microsoft .NET languages use the same compiler, which is a command-line compiler - the IDEs just call that to do their thing.
  - .net is great (java sucks) (Score:1)
    
    by Organized Konfusion ( 700770 ) writes:
    
    Try this before you install VS.net http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/ [icsharpcode.net] It is a Open source .net IDE. If you like it then get VS but this is what got me started! Have fun.
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      by jawtheshark ( 198669 ) * writes:
      
      Thanks for the link. I'll try it out first! At least it's much more compact than Visual C# Express. :-)
Don't want to spoil the party.. (Score:1)

by andr0meda ( 167375 ) writes:

.. but making IDE's targetted to a certain language is the single one thing MS has always truely exelled in.

I'm not a mickeysoftie, but you gotta give them credit where it is due. Eclipse is an extremely nice tool, and once you get it to do what you want, it's becomes very usuable. But it takes a lot of time and pain to get it there. Compared to VS.NET it lacks all the streamlined (and customizable) workflow. You have to configure it yourself. Sure, you can use MyEclipse for web building in J2EE, or v

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