I use SharpDevelop on a laptop that is too old and under-powered to host Visual Studio, and while I have had the occasional crash, I have also been able to use it for long periods of time, doing some non-trivial C# development work. So, I'm surprised to hear that you've had such difficulty. For what it's worth, I'm using XP Home and .NET 1.1. |
SharpDevelop blows. Two reasons:
1. it wipes out code without any warning. for exmple, changing the type of a variable, say, a textbox. this resulted in the textbox being erased from the form, along with the code. unbelievable.
2. no debugger. wow. |
I will report whether or not I'm more successful at the second computer I try it. Both WinXP/SP2 though. Good to know Adam that SharpDevelop indeed can be used for longer times without crashing. |
Microsoft has also some free tools that you can use to develop applications and websites.
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/
One of the things lacking is the ability to work with multiple projects in a solution.
So said Casual Jim in the comments to the post in which I linked this entry. |