Light and Free Asp.NET Developing Tools

Question

Hi,

I am looking for a tool which can edit asp.net pages and supports intellisense. I know several tools like Web Developer Express but I am looking more lightly softwares and of course it must be free because I am not that rich to pay money to a software :) and if it was open source,it'd be more great (:

If you knew any and shared it with me,it'd be great.

Thanks in advance.

1. Free
2. Light
3. Supports Intellisense, Syntax Highlighting and Code Formatting
4. For Asp.NET
5. (Optional) Open Source

These are the requirement that I want the software to does have :)

Sorry for wanting so much things.. :)

Answer 1

MonoDevelop is a IDE for C#/.Net on Linux, but it sounds like it might suit your needs.

Here's the link: http://monodevelop.com/

Answer 2

Have you looked at sharpdevelop?

Answer 3

Here is another list from archive.org:

http://web.archive.org/web/20071217202115/http://www.dotnetcoders.com/web/Articles/ShowArticle.aspx?article=49

Answer 4

You could try notepad++ and set it to c#/vb. You won't get auto complete but you will have a light text editor with syntax highlighting. I could be wrong, but I believe the only free tools with everything you want are the VS Express IDEs that MS offers.

Answer 5

You have some very particular requirements. They are not unreasonable but I'm not sure you will find all of those things and FREE. If you have the skills and/or desire, maybe you should consider building the tool you want for yourself.

Answer 6

Intellisense, syntax highlighting, and code formatting, particularly in multi-context files like those used in ASP.NET, are precisely why the available editors aren't terribly lightweight.

If you can give up perfect syntax highlighting and complete Intellisense, I recommend using a general-purpose programmer's editor such as UltraEdit, which is inexpensive and very fast. UE doesn't force you to bundle your source code into "solutions," has powerful search and replace, etc.

But on the flip side, for that extra speed, the highlighting and other fancy features are implemented using pattern recognition, not true behind-the-scenes compilation or interpretation of your code. So it can highlight certain words, recognize comment blocks, etc., but it doesn't have the ability to follow along and provide object-specific Intellisense, etc.