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Arla · Jun 23rd, 2005, 12:39 PM

Given that (for the Windows PC) these I believe are the two main free (currently at least) development environments, I was wondering what peoples comments were, I've not tried Visual C# Express but I'm wondering what those who have tried it think (what is good, what is bad?)

Currently I use SharpDevelop, in my mind it works fairly well, the main issue I have with it is the lack of Debugger, which isn't a huge problem for me (given that I am mostly a mainframe programmer so am quite used to having the equivalent of writeline statements everywhere) but I can see it being an issue for others who are more used to IDE's that include debuggers.

I've also noticed that occasionally sharp develops folding logic seems to get a bit confused, and that occasionally the autofill feature doesn't work as well as it might (although mainly this is when I change an external class while working on a project).

Jun 23rd, 2005, 12:39 PM	#1
Arla Professional Programmer Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 404 Rep Power: 4	Visual C# Express vs SharpDevelop Given that (for the Windows PC) these I believe are the two main free (currently at least) development environments, I was wondering what peoples comments were, I've not tried Visual C# Express but I'm wondering what those who have tried it think (what is good, what is bad?) Currently I use SharpDevelop, in my mind it works fairly well, the main issue I have with it is the lack of Debugger, which isn't a huge problem for me (given that I am mostly a mainframe programmer so am quite used to having the equivalent of writeline statements everywhere) but I can see it being an issue for others who are more used to IDE's that include debuggers. I've also noticed that occasionally sharp develops folding logic seems to get a bit confused, and that occasionally the autofill feature doesn't work as well as it might (although mainly this is when I change an external class while working on a project).