.net IDE capable of .net 3 and 3.5

jon86 · 8 Dec 2007 at 18:34

Hi.

I work as a .net programmer and am interested in doing some .net development at home, in addition to what I do at work. My work provides Visual Studio '05 (and soon '08) on my work laptop and am really familiar with it. Unfortunately, my work does not provide me with a license for my home computer. Is there a .net IDE that I can use for .net 3 and 3.5 programming without buying Visual Studio? I don't need any designers; just syntax highlighting and some form of Intellisense is sufficient.

Eclipse .net project is too early in development to be considered.

Thanks!
Jon

Inquisitor · 8 Dec 2007 at 18:47

Visual Studio Express?

Teaf · 8 Dec 2007 at 18:53

Inquisitor said:
Visual Studio Express?

It's what I use for home use, it's a great program and you can actually build programs from it instead of develop only.

clicky

Kobrakai · 8 Dec 2007 at 19:01

The only decent alternative IDE to Visual Studio I know of is Sharp Develop:

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

I don’t think they support .Net 3 or 3.5 yet though but I bet it won’t be much longer.

jon86 · 8 Dec 2007 at 19:52

Hmmm... I'm sorry for my ignorance but I didn't realise the Express editions were worth using. I'll definitely have a look.

http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/ didn't seem very good when I investigated it.

Thanks very much!

NathanE · 8 Dec 2007 at 20:04

VS Express is better than any other free .NET IDE by a very very very long mile. Period.

voodooflux · 9 Dec 2007 at 13:18

NathanE said:
VS Express is better than any other free .NET IDE by a very very very long mile. Period.

And amen. You'll also have the benefit of essentially using the same environment as you do at work, and you'll be able to transfer solutions between the two if you need to.