Setting up a Programming Environment in Linux
I recently started using Linux as my primary OS. What are the tools that I will need to set up a complete programming environment in Linux for C and C++? ...
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Alternative IDE for VB6
I've been spoiled by Visual studio 2008 and Eclipse and have to do a little maintainence work on a VB6 app. Does anyone know of an alternative/ updated IDE for VB6? A rewrite is not an option I'm just fixing a couple of bugs and it's a big codebase. ...
What should I use for a Ruby development environment on Windows?
Hi, I am playing around with Ruby in Windows using Notepad++ and the console but am finding this extremely inconvenient due to the lack of tabbed consoles. Any recommendations for a more comfortable environment? ...
How to stop visual studio from updating assembly references?
In our environment we have a Lib folder which contains various third party assemblies referenced by our projects. For example, Enterprise Libary and Elmah. Sometimes a dev doesn't do a get latest on that folder. When the dev then loads a project which can't find the assembly in the expected folder, Visual Studio automatically locates ...
New web app project does not recognize the <asp: tag space
Visual Studio 2008 w/Sp1 To reproduce my problem I simply create a new .Net 2.0 web application and add a page with the following markup: <%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="WebApplication5._Default" %> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR...
Best Common Lisp IDE
I've used Slime within Emacs as my primary development environment for Common Lisp (or Aquamacs on OS X), but are there other compelling choices out there? I've heard about Lispworks, but is that [or something else] worth looking at? Or does anyone have tips to getting the most out of Emacs (e.g., hooking it up to the hyperspec for easy ...
Can Eclipse Be Used To Find All Deprecated Method Calls?
Does Eclipse have a feature that lets you search a project to find all calls to deprecated methods? ...
Best IDE for Grails/Groovy?
I am starting a project with Grails since I already use Eclipse, it was my first choice. But I don´t think its good enough, had some problems and the plugging is poor in functionalities. Anyone uses/tested others IDEs(NetBeans, InteliJ(not free)...)? Which one is the best? thanks. ...
What have you done to customize your IDE?
What tweaks / addins / themes do you have rigged up to make your IDE awesome? For example, in Visual Studio I color themes, CodeRush draws lines between braces, I always install and use the Consolas font and I have it setup to sync my settings across computers for when I change hotkeys and whatnot with the help of FolderShare. Also, th...
Could "attach source" be made easier for popular Java libraries?
I run into this obstacle when my debugger steps into some classfile without corresponding source. Finding it is often difficult: You have to search for the site hosting the respective project, and find its ``download source'' page (for instance, last time I searched for the JPA API, and it took me hours to obtain the sources). Or, yo...
Things possible in IntelliJ that aren't possible in Eclipse?
I have heard from people who have switched either way and who swear by the one or the other. Being a huge Eclipse fan but having not had the time to try out IntelliJ, I am interested hearing from IntelliJ users who are "ex-Eclipsians" some specific things that you can do with IntelliJ that you can not do with Eclipse. Note: This is not...
Worst "muscle memory" keyboard shortcut?
What's the worst shortcut you have in your "muscle memory"? For example, mine is CTRL-L: compiles the current object in Sybase Powerbuilder, but deletes the current line in Visual Studio. ...
Is there any way to get a REPL in pydev?
I would like to be able to drop to the python REPL from the debugger -- if this is not possible is there an easier way to evaluate python expressions in the context of the current breakpoint other than manually adding them all as watch expressions? ...
Bug in intellisense - how to report to Microsoft?
I found a bug in the method stub generation of Visual Studio intellisense. class A { } class B : A { A a; void f() { a.NewMethod(); } } When I choose "Generate Method Stub" on a.NewMethod(), I should get a public method. Instead, intellisense confuses itself and creates a protected method for me. The compiler correctly compla...
VB6 Editor changing case of variable names!
Hi all, I'm not much of a Visual Basic person, but I am tasked with maintaining an old VB6 app. Whenever I check out a file, the editor will replace a bunch of the uppercase variable names with lowercase automatically. How can I make this stop!? I don't want to have to change them all back, and it's a pain to have these changes show u...
PHP IDE--Want to sync local storage with FTP
I currently use Notepad++ for most of my development. I have been checking out other, more full-featured options and would like to switch (I'm in particular a fan of Aptana so far) but there is one thing about Notepad++ that I really like and I haven't been able to get so far. My current workflow is something like this: Workflow (I t...
How do you use Source Control without IDE integration?
I am currently using Subversion as my Source Control system, mainly because I found ANkhSVN to be a quite nicely integrated into Visual Studio. But many people seem to be using Git or Mercurial and others with great success. Now, I am wondering how to use a system like Git without some sort of IDE integration. Going to the command lin...
Brace highlighting in Visual Studio for Javascript?
Is there a way to get Visual Studio 2008 to do matching brace highlighting for Javascript? If there is no way to do it in Studio, can it be done using ReSharper? Thanks!! ...
IDE for HP Calculator Programming?
Typing in programs longer than 50 characters got old really fast on my HP49g+. What IDEs are designed for programming HP calculators? Are there any plugins to Visual Studio, Eclipse, xCode, etc. for this purpose? ...
Word Wrap in Net Beans
I'm just learning to code in java. Netbeans is great but I just found there's no way to wrap text in it (or hopefully I haven't found it yet). Is there any way to do this, and if not, is there any similarly good IDE for Java with this functionality (hopefully free as well). Thanks. ...