Hi Jamal, Thanks for the tips. .net 3.5 rather than 2.0 here, but I would imagine the command line options should still be there. I'll start looking at the SDK more, especially for the layout container controls, which I will admit I have no familiarity with as of yet.
Thanks again. JW Jamal Mazrui wrote:
As you might guess, I develop EdSharp and FileDir in C# 2.0 using EdSharp. The .NET 2.0 SDK has a strong set of command-line utilities with consistent syntax. Although I have done my best to make the Visual Studio scripts provide access to the IDE, and so have others, I ultimately found that I was more productive hand coding forms with a powerful, speech friendly text editor. Yes, one gives up code completion, so I often search MSDN or structured text files I have done of .NET documentation. I do not like the way an IDE guesses what I want to do, however, generating code automatically for me, some of which I do not understand or do not find consistent with my own coding style. I have found that the layout container controls work in a more simple and elegant manner than building forms through the Windows forms designer. As an example of EdSharp's support for C#, try creating the file hello.cs with the code below. Then press Control+Shift+F5 and pick the C# compiler. Press Control+F5 to compile. EdSharp will say "Done!" if there was no compiling error, thus resulting in the executable hello.exe in the same folder as hello.cs. If an error is found, on the other hand, EdSharp will say it and place the cursor at that point in the source code. Let me be clear that this is a personal choice that works well for me. Others like the code completion and other benefits of the IDE a lot, and are not bothered by the code generation or other aspects that I find annoying. Also, if one is working on a team, the IDE provides ways of structuring projects that aid collaboration. Hope this helps, Jamal using System.Windows.Forms; class Program { static void Main() { MessageBox.Show("Hello world"); } } On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Jared Wright wrote:Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:43:19 -0400 From: Jared Wright <wright.jaredm@xxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Separating .net from Visual Studio Hi all, I was wondering what experiences any of you could share about using any of the .net framework languages outside of Visual Studio? It's obviously very powerful stuff and stuff I need to be comfortable with, but I really just am not finding that I like the VS experience. Apparently I can work with my text editor of choice unhindered with the .net SDK, but I wanted to know if there are any other practical hurdles I've overlooked. I don't know many folks that do their .net in something other than Visual Studio, and I imagine there's a good reason why. Apologies if it seems I"m cutting some corners here too, I do have a programming class this semester centered around .net, hence the inquiry itself, and I'm really trying to find an alternative for VS or at least figure out VS real quickly, because it's sure making this course irritating. Not a lot of fun when 30% seems to be software dev and the other 70% seems to be fighting with the IDE.Any thoughts welcome. Best, JW __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind__________View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
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