Board:   [DeveloperNet] C#
Subject: SharpDevelop
From:    art
Date:    Wed May 25, 2011 12:04

  Re: SharpDevelop
  By: Nightfox to All on Tue May 24 2011 22:43:31

Hi Nightfox,

 > I wonder how this compares to the (free)Express editions of Microsoft's
 > Visual
 > Studio though..  If anyone has used SharpDevelop, I'd be curious to know
 > what
 > you think.

Yes, I have used SharpDevelop. It's not bad, probably the only open source C#
IDE I could use on a production level. It has code-completion and as for a
comparison between SD and VSEx, I would say they are pretty similar.

VS (not sure about express anymore as all I use is Professional these days) is
still a much friendlier IDE. I can get things done faster in VS, whether it's
refactoring or just trying to find classes/code.

Code completion works a lot better in VS, which is a biggie for me,however may
not even be part of VSEx, I can't recall.

SD has git support out of the box I think (and SVN), if you're one of "those
types"....

Graphically, SD is much less polished than the VS suite, but that's to be
expected. It comes with a graphical WinForms designer, which isn't great but
gets the job done... kind of. It supports IronPython and IronRuby and even F#,
IIRC.

In general my line of thinking is:
- If you develop in mono, use SharpDevelop.
- If you develop in mono and .NET, use SD or VSEx.
- If you develop primarily in .NET, use VS (a commercial license depending on
your needs).

In truth that's more personal habitthan strict vulcan logic. You can GTD in
any of the IDEs, just a matter of how much manual labour is involved ;)

Kind regards,
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