What are my options? I tried MonoDevelop over a year ago but it was extremely buggy. Is the latest version stable a stable development environment?
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Is the latest version stable a stable development environment?
Probably ... it hit 1.0 this past spring.
eduffy
2008-09-30 00:52:16
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MonoDevelop 2.0 has been released, it now has a decent GUI debugger, code completion, intellisense c# 3.0 support (including linq), and a descent GTK# Visual Designer.
In short, since the 2.0 release I have started using mono develop again and am very happy with it so far.
Check out the MonoDevelop website for more info.
trampster
2008-09-30 00:56:18
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I used MonoDevelop a while ago, and it was fine. It's not anywhere near as good as Eclipse or NetBeans are for Java development, but those are really in a class of their own. And I think the only real alternative is using emacs or vim...
It's fairly polished. Stability really wasn't an issue. Simple code-completion is there, as is jumping to to declaration, super-class and the extremely useful find references. Debugging isn't there, though, which is a fairly glaring omission. I actually spent a couple of minutes trying to set up a breakpoint until it dawned on me that there isn't even a way to "Debug..." instead of "Run..."
morsch
2008-09-30 01:02:10
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I would recommend X-develop from Omnicore. Very good IDE, if only it free for more than 30 days.
Walter
2008-09-30 16:41:06
That looks pretty good if it works as well as advertized. Thx for the link.
mattlant
2008-09-30 16:51:28
Works well. And there's a way around the 30 day limit - just delete the files and directories it creates in your home dir.
skolima
2008-10-06 14:54:13
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There is a C# binding for Eclipse, though I haven't tried it personally, so I can't vouch for it. I use MonoDevelop, which isn't perfect, but works reasonably well for the most part. The version included in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) is much more stable than the Gutsy Gibbon version.
Adam N
2008-10-05 07:29:46
I believe the C# bindings for eclipse are not maintained anymore and were not that good anyways.
EricSchaefer
2008-10-05 07:59:02
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Monodevelop
There are 2 versions around:
1.0: the currently stable version. It is indeed stable, but somewhat limited in its capabilities. It's very good for smallish projects. I got it via the ubuntu hardy repos.
2.0RC (aka 1.9.x) you can get it via SVN and compiling. The process is quite straightforward, and you can run it without installing (via
make run). It's somewhat less stable than 1.0, but it depends on which build you get (it's a development snapshot). Regarding capabilities, it is great. It has refactoring, profiling, tons of plugins, etc.
Sklivvz
2008-10-05 08:09:59