I'm going to try c# on my linux box.... Do you recommend SharpDevelop as IDE or just a notepad + compiler?
tnx Alberto Berengo
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Mono is probably better for you. There is no information about porting it for use with linux, and this post states that they have little interest in doing it also.
StingyJack
2009-01-16 16:14:41
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Definitely go MonoDevelop. Visual Studio is a big part of the C# / .Net "programming experience". If you code it notepad you're not going to get the same feel.
Joel Coehoorn
2009-01-16 16:15:33
Joel, Are you editing without "editing". I swear that your post said "SharpDevelop" a second ago...
StingyJack
2009-01-16 16:23:50
I think there is a grace period in which edits can be made without creating a separate revision.
William Brendel
2009-01-16 16:25:55
Thanks, my eyes are bad but its good to know they arent that bad yet.
StingyJack
2009-01-16 16:29:01
It did say sharpdevelop: I don't know why the revision doesn't show.
Joel Coehoorn
2009-01-16 16:44:13
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SharpDevelop is tied to windows MonoDevelop is fork than works on Linux (actually it's tied linux)
Robert
2009-01-16 16:17:30
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I would install virtual machine software and put XP on there. Visual Studio 2008 (Even Express) is an unbeatable IDE.
If you can get a copy of Visual Studio 2008 Professional (Almost Free with DreamSpark program) then your productivity even in a virtual machine will be higher than using MonoDevelop.
Robert Venables
2009-01-16 16:28:08
I've never used it, but KVM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine) with something like Proxmox seems to be fairly standard.
Robert Venables
2009-01-16 16:37:39
Sun xVM (http://www.sun.com/software/products/virtualbox/index.jsp) looks like it would be the easiest way to go
Robert Venables
2009-01-16 16:42:29
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MonoDevelop, and its default solutions files are the same as Visual Studio, so here you go, portability of your dev environments
igorgue
2009-01-16 16:36:22
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A lot of people, even at Microsoft, wind up using emacs with csharp-mode. If you're productive with emacs, use it! if not, go with the IDE. notepad is not an option.
Jimmy
2009-01-16 16:37:40
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If its just syntax highlighting and basic things you can go here and see what emacs has to offer. It never hurts learning Vim / Emacs if you are a *nix user
Perpetualcoder
2009-01-16 16:47:04