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Has anyone developed an editor / ide using C#/Silverlight/WPF?

We are currently developing a web application in ASP.NET MVC which would really benefit from a IDE of sometype to help allow some elements to be visually customised. Could anyone recommend an approach ? We are thinking of maybe a plugin using Silverlight. Does anyone have any links or examples that might help ? ...

How can I add a new application / new file wizard to the Delphi IDE "New ..." dialog?

Are there examples and resources (source code and documentation) available which show how a 'New xyz Application' or 'New xyz Document' wizard can be created with Delphi which then will appear in the new project / new file dialog of the Delphi IDE? What I want to do: for some of my libraries I would like to add a new project type and a ...

Can I stop Aptana's PDT plugin from messing with my Javascript editing

I run Aptana 2.0 on Win 7. I normally code HMTL/CSS/JS but the other day I started with a PHP project, so I downloaded the PDT plugin to get proper colorization in .PHP files. It works fine, but my problem is that PDT also seems to mess with Javascript editing (applies another colorization scheme that's the same as in PHP files, and cod...

Which Linux software do you recommend for C++ programming?

I would like to learn to program using the Linux environment. What do you suggest for Editors/ IDEs? ...

C++ IDE with good intellisense

So I've been using Visual Studio 2008 for my C++ development for a while now, however the insanely crappy intellisense has been bugging me for ages. I'm looking for an alternative C++ IDE where the intellisense actually is reliable and doesn't vanish between the same variable, in the same scope, just on different lines. Any takers? ...

Does RubyMine 2.0 earn it's $99 as a Rails IDE?

I've seen a lot of blogs talk about RubyMine lately, as a best of breed Rails IDE. Currently I am using NetBeans IDE for my Ruby and Rails stuff, but I was wondering if anyone here would personally recommend this IDE, and reasons why I should fork out $99 for it!? ...

Any pitfalls to working on a project created in a 'higher' version of Visual Studio?

I'm asking this specifically regarding Visual Studio 2008 and also the upcoming Visual Studio 2010. If we are given a project that has been created in an edition of Visual Studio such as Team Suite or Ultimate, and all we have to work with is Professional, would that interfere with us working with the project? I'm assuming the code woul...

What is 'Facet' in JavaEE?

I wonder not only what is Facet but also what is Facet 'in physical level' (as I understand it's not a separate jar, but what?)? I also wonder how can it affect my application after deploying. I'll explain on real example: I had 2 facets (which were created by IDE): Spring Facet and Web Facet (for jsf). I deployed it to Tomcat and my a...

I am looking for tips for learning Vim or Emacs the smart way...

I am a quite happy user of Eclipse (I mostly develop in PHP and Python), however I found the answers to "What specific productivity gains does Vim/Emacs provide over GUI text editors?" interesting enough to make me wish to try out Vim or Emacs as well and see if they would turn out to be a better solution for me. I have the general feel...

Was Visual Studio 2008 or 2010 written to use multi cores?

basically i want to know if the visual studio IDE and/or compiler in 2010 was written to make use of a multi core environment (i understand we can target multi core environments in 08 and 10, but that is not my question). i am trying to decide on if i should get a higher clock dual core or a lower clock quad core, as i want to try and f...

How to generate JAVA RMI stubs and skeletons from Interface?

Is there an action (menu / shortcut) that I miss or plug-in to add to a basic JavaEE distribution of Eclipse 3.5 that will allow to generate / regenerate files that usualy done from command line call for rmic? I am aware of the "RMI Plug-in for Eclipse version 2.0" I am looking for a free one. ...

Visual Studio : exclude outlining from undo/redo stack

Hi, There's something really annoying in Visual Studio : where I expand or collapse a method or code region, this action is pushed on the undo stack. So if I edit some code in a method, then collapse that method, and then want to undo my change, I have to undo twice : once for the collapse action, and once for the change in code. This c...

Organizing VBA Project

Hello people, I am maintaining a large MS Access Project. Over time the number of modules and classes has grown, at this moment it contains 90 modules. More and more time do I spend searching for a specific class in the list. (I know about Shift+F2 :)) Is there any way to organize the list of modules in the VBA editor, i.e. some kind o...

Hotkey to scroll through method overload options in intellisense.

Is there a keyboard hot-key to scroll through multiple IntelliSense method overload options for Visual C# pro? I.e. do what the arrows do if you click on them in the pic below. ...

How to encourage positive developer behavior with an IDE?

The goal of IDEs is increase productivity. They do a great job at that. Refactoring, navigation, inline documentation, auto completion help increase productivity immensely. But: Every tool is a weapon. The very same IDE helps to produce chunk code. Some IDE features are an invitation to produce bad code: code generation, code formatting...

How to learn to like Visual Studio and heavy-duty IDEs

I've had some exposure to Visual Studio, but not a great deal, as well as Eclipse, and haven't gotten much out of the experience. What I tend to want out of an editor is line numbers, syntax highlighting, and if possible, a list of functions/subroutines. To me, Visual Studio is overkill. Particularly, I don't like the concept of drag-...

Change right-click context menu options in VS2008

When I right-click in my class library, I get some quick options to create things, like an Item from the popup list (New Item...), a User Control, etc. E.g. Now in my web app project, I'd like to be able to get the User Control listed in the right-click menu just like Component and Class, so I don't have to click New Item... then choo...

Aptana studio won`t load ?

i`m using a standalone version of Aptana and i have just finished reformatting when i tried to launch Aptana i got this error "Could not launch the product because the specified workspace cannot be created. The specified workspace directory is either invalid or read-only." how can i solve this ? ...

Eclipse Create Multiple Class at Once

Eclipse as a option to create a class automatically once a undefined Object is detected e.g. Tester test = new Tester(); It will ask if you want to create the Tester class. Does it have an option to create multiple class/batch create the necessary classes? I have have 50 classes to create and this is kinda tedious ...

PHP IDE with design view?

Are there any good IDEs for PHP that have design view as well? Like in Dreamweaver, or visual studio, sometimes it is advantageous to place controls with drag and drop. Also want syntax highlighting and some kind of versioning control. I know this question is quite like others asking about PHP but I specifically desire this feature....