Open Source C-Sharp Develop

[gjjackson]

Here's the link of an open source environment for programming in C-Sharp (C#).

http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/Download/

[Dodgy]

Can you tell me what advantages this has over c please? And how easy it is to build plugins with it? I'm learning c in spits and spots, and I would like to know if this would make it easier? :)

Ta!

[gjjackson]

I'm not sure if anyone is using it for plugins as yet. It seems I've heard talk of needing library files. If anyone was interested in Visual Studio and dot Net this is a free alternative. The upgrades aren't too overpriced but if you were to buy Visual Studio Professional new it Would be Costly. When I first bought it, it was about a grand.

[Dodgy]

http://www.bloodshed.net/

I've got pluigns up and running on this dev environment, seems pretty straightforward, a friend helped me through the setup. It's still a work in progress (some of the functions are implemented yet) but it compiles LW pluigns perfectly.
It's free, but donations are greatly accepted :)

[Martin Adams]

I've used Visual Studio quite a bit for PC and Pocket PC, along with the old class VB as well. So I'm quite used to the MS way of doing things.

I had a brief look at this open source IDE and I'm really impressed. The GUI designer is also very good. It even has a one click button on your source to convert C# to VB.NET and visa-versa. Something I think Microsoft missed the boat on when they released them both.

Maybe I should look into writing plug-ins at some point. I did write an internal project at work where I would open a LW8 object file in Java and render it as a Java 3D object. That was actually quite fun and far superior to the old Java 3D LWO reader for version 5.5.