A better alternative to Microsoft Visual Studio from Open Source community
February 9, 2009 Alternatives, IDEs, Open Source, Reviews
Ever wondered how you could live without the Microsoft Visual Studio for your .NET development and learn to live with its memory consumption that bogs you down every time you run it? Well, I do. And I always find the command-line runnable .NET Framework facinating to develop a much lighter IDE than the Visual Studio. And of course, the ever present question of Licencing costs for a product that is really not needed to develop in .NET Framework (I mean matter-of-factly).
Now, you can shed all your worries of that and embrace the open source community for making a powerful Open Source IDE named SharpDevelop. It was so powerful that you can seriously consider it for a complete drop-in replacement of Microsoft Visual Studio. It supports almost all of the Visual Studio features and much more. It supports Subversion for Version Control. In my opinion Subversion is far great an Version Control system than VSS. Here is the screenshot of how it looks:
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I’ve been using SharpDevelop since version 2, its the greatest tool for .Net development