IDE Suggestions

[rob.m...@gmail.com]

I would like to try out Cocoa# but have been at a loss as to an IDE.
I'm somewhat familiar with Visual Studio and really like the ability
to use codesense to explore the API. I attempted to compile all of
the prerequisites for MonoDevelop but encountered a problem
downloading all of the required libraries from fink. I found a syntax
highlighter for TextMate which helped some but obviously omitted any
kind of code completion.

My question is, what do you guys (and girls) use? What have you had
the most success with? Which features and websites provide the most
bang for the buck as a language reference.

More about me, I'm primarily a Java developer but have looked at C#
and done some development in Ruby Python and Objective-C. Any help
you could give me would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[Stuart Carnie]

You could try x-develop, which is cross platform.

http://www.omnicore.com/en/xdevelop.htm

Cheers,

Stu

On Sep 5, 10:06 am, "rob.mch...@gmail.com" <rob.mch...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Dave]

Xcode is the standard IDE for OSX. Use the CSharp plugin for Xcode to
use Cocoa#.

Dave

On Sep 5, 10:06 am, "rob.mch...@gmail.com" <rob.mch...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[mh]

Rob,

> I would like to try out Cocoa# but have been at a loss as to an IDE.
> I'm somewhat familiar with Visual Studio and really like the ability
> to use codesense to explore the API. I attempted to compile all of
> the prerequisites for MonoDevelop but encountered a problem
> downloading all of the required libraries from fink. I found a syntax
> highlighter for TextMate which helped some but obviously omitted any
> kind of code completion.
>
> My question is, what do you guys (and girls) use? What have you had
> the most success with? Which features and websites provide the most
> bang for the buck as a language reference.

i'm just getting started with getting into Cocoa# myself (got my first
Mac about a month ago), but i'm using Visual Studio inside VMware
Fusion, and very happy with the combination so far. Since i'm not
using C# but Chrome (our own Object Pascal language for .NET), i've
got a lot of flexibility, and added a couple of custom extensions to
Chrome/VS to make development easier - including a tool that generates
partial classes based in .NIB files (so i can access all the outlets
and actions without re-writing them by hand) and an extension to
MSBuild that (based on MacPack) generates a finished .app right out of
Visual Studio [which i'll be happy share one it's finalized an i'm
100% happy with it, it should work with C# as well].

With that, the development/text experience is pretty cool - hit Build
in VS, switch over to Finder and launch the app ;)

i've blogged about this a bit at http://blogs.remobjects.com/blogs/mh?p=162
and http://blogs.remobjects.com/blogs/mh?p=167.

[glennm...@gmail.com]

Hi there...

I am trying to install the CSharp Plugin of Xcode.
I tried to download the installable version but it didn't show any
sign of working (I'm using a beta version of Leopard).
Now I'm trying to download the code so that I can do it step-by-step
as said in the documentation.
The link to download the code is https://cocoa-sharp-dev.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/csharpxcodeplugin
according to the documentation.
When I try to download from that URL the browser is asking me for a
username and a password.

Pls can anyone tell me what are these username/password or tell me
what to do in order to get access to the code.

Thanks

[Dave]

Sorry try "http://cocoa-sharp-dev.googlecode.com/svn/" for anonymous
checkout.

As far as the plugin goes, since the Xcode plugin api is not
documented, the CSharp plugin will likely fail with the new version of
Xcode in Leopard. I am not sure when the plugin will get updated to
Leopard. My iBook that I use for plugin work is a G3 and will not run
Leopard.

Dave

On Oct 19, 9:40 am, "glennmical...@gmail.com"

<glennmical...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there...
>
> I am trying to install the CSharp Plugin of Xcode.
> I tried to download the installable version but it didn't show any
> sign of working (I'm using a beta version of Leopard).
> Now I'm trying to download the code so that I can do it step-by-step
> as said in the documentation.

> The link to download the code ishttps://cocoa-sharp-dev.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/csharpxcodeplugin

[Tizzo]

I'm actually having a lot of luck with using the Visual Studio 2005
Express running in Parallels. To do this I had to perform the
following:

I'm gonna spend a little more time with it and then upload the
VS.NET .csproj and .sln to the SVN for all to use.

On Sep 5, 1:06 pm, "rob.mch...@gmail.com" <rob.mch...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[RobCowell]

I'd definitely like to see those when they're ready - like you, I'm
not having much luck with the plugin under the new Leopard version of
XCode

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[Bill Nalen]

Under Leopard and Xcode 3 I just did the external build tool project and created a simple makefile. I'm doing asp.net under mono, so I have a make file that builds release and debug versions, and a simple shell file that runs on command - R that starts xsp2. 

Prior to that I was running vs.net 2005 Standard in VMWare Fusion. It ran and worked fine without any changes needed. 

Bill