Quick Tip: use SharpDevelop when Visual Studio is not at hand
Today I suddenly had the urge to check some code on a home laptop where Visual Studio was not installed. Knowing the painful process of installing this IDE (I could grab a evaluation version of course), I remembered a colleague recommended SharpDevelop to our group some time ago. So I went ahead and installed the 8MB(!) download in maybe 1(yes, that o-n-e) minute (that is minute, not hour). It definitely has the most wanted features of the VS IDE. Maybe not all, and it was a bit lacking in IntelliSense (but we know the Namespaces ourselves, don't we?).
A nice twist is that it shows the underlying implementation of all the .NET itself. For example, hover over
Console and it shows you it is a public sealed class. Nice hey? The *really* nice thing is it fires up a LOT faster than VS itself.Even if you're using Visual Studio every day, this tool might enrich your programming life...
Download SharpDevelop 2.2
posted by Arjan Zuidhof @ 8:58 PM
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Yes, it is very nice! I am using VS 2005 with Resharper installed for main development, and opening couple other solutions with SharpDevelop. I am very happy with it. Actually you can get the V3.0 from the trunk.
- Liang
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