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yeah i agree. I think sharp develop is coming along very well though. It will be interesting to see where they go with it. I am going to start using it for my personal open source projects, but for my commercial work for me and my teams I will stick with VS as we have MSDN licenses and support agreements in place.

Re: Sharp Develop – Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio

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Post by 72deluxe » Fri, Apr 04, 2014, 9:51 AM UTC

Out of interest, how does this compare with the free editions of Visual Studio? Is there any compelling reason to use it over them?

I am genuinely interested; I don't do much (any?) C# at the moment.

Re: Sharp Develop – Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 04, 2014, 9:55 AM UTC

72deluxe wrote: post #5

Out of interest, how does this compare with the free editions of Visual Studio? Is there any compelling reason to use it over them? I am genuinely interested; I don't do much (any?) C# at the moment.

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Re: Sharp Develop – Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio

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Post by Yuioup » Fri, Apr 04, 2014, 10:01 AM UTC

I've been following this for a while. I applaud the effort but there is no way they can keep up with VS. Also Xamarin forked SharpDevelop ages ago into MonoDevelop, but I don't know if any contributions flow back from MonoDevelop to SharpDevelop.

Re: Sharp Develop – Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio

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Post by stevehaunts » Fri, Apr 04, 2014, 10:05 AM UTC

Yuioup wrote: post #7

I've been following this for a while. I applaud the effort but there is no way they can keep up with VS. Also Xamarin forked SharpDevelop ages ago into MonoDevelop, but I don't know if any contributions flow back from MonoDevelop to SharpDevelop.

I don't think it necessarily has to keep up with VS as that will always be a loosing battle. I just think it needs to feature complete in its own way to make it a viable alternative, and I think they are at the point of achieving that.

Re: Sharp Develop – Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio

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Post by stevehaunts » Fri, Apr 04, 2014, 10:06 AM UTC

72deluxe wrote: post #5

Out of interest, how does this compare with the free editions of Visual Studio? Is there any compelling reason to use it over them? I am genuinely interested; I don't do much (any?) C# at the moment.

There is a comparison matrix between #develop and VS express here.

http://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/mattward/articles/Vi...

Re: Sharp Develop – Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio

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Post by bad_user » Fri, Apr 04, 2014, 10:06 AM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #6

72deluxe wrote: post #5

Out of interest, how does this compare with the free editions of Visual Studio? Is there any compelling reason to use it over them? I am genuinely interested; I don't do much (any?) C# at the moment.

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Actually, SharpDevelop is not the same project as MonoDevelop: http://monodevelop.com/

MonoDevelop was forked from SharpDevelop but they diverged. Unity has MonoDevelop with Unity-specific patches and they are a little behind. Xamarin Studio is also MonoDevelop with proprietary stuff.

Speaking of the "linux version", linux distributions are very far behind in the package versions provided and the folks at Xamarin are only doing packages for OpenSuse. If you want to do development with Mono, Linux is unfortunately not a good OS to be on. Mind you, this is nobody's fault - it's just lack of interest.