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there is a list of C# Programming Tools from MSDN(!) site

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vcsharp/aa336818.aspx

 

It refers to open source as well as MS products.

Mono, NUnit, NAnt in the list.

 

Particulary it lists alternative IDEs - SharpDevelop  and QuickSharp

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michael
14:11 Feb 24th
SharpDevelop is very easy, fast and small - not like Visual Studio monster. This is various of Mono IDE - MonoDevelop. I use SharpDevelop, more for source observing, less for development. Currently SharpDevelop completes for me full cycle together with VS(primary) and Notepad++.

igorz
15:01 Feb 24th
I tried QuickSharp. It is very lightweight, easy to install and run, but I was not able to get some code running with it for 10 minutes. It seems different from VS and SharpDevelop. Actually I don't think it is competitive IDE for C# (at least for now).

steevwalker
15:59 Mar 9th
As QuickSharp's author I'd be interested to know what difficulties you had. You're right in that it is intended to be different to VS and SharpDevelop but I never thought of it as being difficult to use. Perhaps there was a technical issue preventing it from working correctly? The most common problem is with 64-bit systems which require an additional update before the editor will work correctly (this can be obtained from the QuickSharp website).   Steve Walker

igorz
11:43 Mar 10th
There is no technical issue, everything works fine. The difference to VS and SharpDevelop was an issue. I use Eclipse and VS. They are different, but they a both a 'standard' in fact. QuickSharp brings a new concept, which is not bad, but it requires to learn it. And actual questions - why QuickSharp? What is better for? How to run existing VS solutions with it? QuickSharp have to bring a lot of useful features as well as new concept for being competitive. P.S I still have it installed on my PC, I will learn it more.

steevwalker
16:52 Mar 10th
Thanks for the clarification. I think you are absolutely right that most IDEs follow a similar pattern which already works well enough for most types of project. The point of QuickSharp is not to compete with those but to provide a simpler alternative when you don't need a full IDE. I still do most of my .NET work in VS (and I wouldn't think of using anything else) but there are times when I just want to write something 'quick and dirty'. For this kind of work I don't want to have to create a solution/project structure with all the directory layout and configuration files that go with it, I just want to create a file, compile it and run it. IDEs like Visual Studio are great at managing larger projects but can do too much when all you want to write is a 10-line console program.