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[henshouse]

Hi,

I'm on a mac and Visual Studio is an .exe file. Is there an alternative to Visual Studio that can compile dll on a mac. I know about virtual machines, but do not want to pay for them.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

Edit: Found a program called, MonoDevelop. It claims to have all the functionality as Visual Studio. I'll take a look at it.

[Henrik]

There's another discussion thread about this here:

csharp/mono-port-t35

[jasonMcIntosh]

I'm not using a Mac, but O... M... G... Visual Studio is painful. After using Eclipse for years with Java and ActionScript...

My question is, is there a way to use MonoDevelop as the IDE while still compiling with Microsoft's C# rather than Mono?

I am not sure if MonoDevelop is closer to Eclipse, but I wanted to find out!

Thanks for any tips!

[Benjaminsen]

I'm not using a Mac, but O... M... G... Visual Studio is painful. After using Eclipse for years with Java and ActionScript...

My question is, is there a way to use MonoDevelop as the IDE while still compiling with Microsoft's C# rather than Mono?

I am not sure if MonoDevelop is closer to Eclipse, but I wanted to find out!

Thanks for any tips!

Mono support is experimental at best. Personally I run a VMWare with Visual Studio as it's the best solution for us mac users I have found.

Personally I use Flash Builder so I am quite familiar with eclipse and I can honestly say that I hate Eclipse as much as I hate Visual Studio

[jasonMcIntosh]

I hate Eclipse as much as I hate Visual Studio

I guess I'll just have to grin and bear it with VS. Thanks for the info!

[jasonMcIntosh]

Oh, I just wanted to add that Adobe's crappy implementation of FlashBuilder is pathetic compared to the Java tools implementation.

Just wanted to get that dig in there, because I think Adobe has never built any of their products to a high standard. Just look at ActionScript3 and Flash Player. But I'm not bitter! No, noooo, noo, nope.