----------------------------------- fatboy316 Tue Sep 20, 2005 4:03 pm Just starting to learn C# ----------------------------------- I'm just started to learn C# in university. I have done programming in java before. I'm looking for recommendations on any free IDE's thats similar to Ready To Program but doesn't take 15 minutes to load up (netbeans). Our university offers visual studios but then we'd have to program in notepad and then compile it and run it using a DOS-like program. Is there any good FREE IDE's that are quite visual with good help support? ----------------------------------- rizzix Tue Sep 20, 2005 4:04 pm ----------------------------------- [url=http://www.bluej.org/]BlueJ if simplicity is your thing. ----------------------------------- wtd Tue Sep 20, 2005 4:09 pm ----------------------------------- [url=http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/]Sharp Develop is quite popular on Windows as a free alternative to Visual Studio.NET. On Linux, I like to use MonoDevelop with Mono for creating GTK# programs in cooperation with Glade. ----------------------------------- rizzix Tue Sep 20, 2005 4:13 pm ----------------------------------- oh my bad.. you wanted a C# IDE. ----------------------------------- fatboy316 Tue Sep 20, 2005 9:56 pm ----------------------------------- I don't really need so many functions. i just want to be able to type in code, press run (have it compile automatically) and then put output onto a window if there are no errors. What i need is similar to that of Turing or Ready To Program. Is there anything else that i can use? ----------------------------------- wtd Tue Sep 20, 2005 10:32 pm ----------------------------------- MonoDevelop's pretty good for that, and as far as I know, MonoDevelop's a pretty straight port of SharpDevelop. A screenshot tour of creating a simple Hello world in MonoDevelop. http://familygeek.com/MonoDevelop/ ----------------------------------- fatboy316 Sat Sep 24, 2005 2:23 pm ----------------------------------- how do i install it? i'm having troubles! ----------------------------------- wtd Sat Sep 24, 2005 2:33 pm ----------------------------------- http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page http://www.monodevelop.com Read the documentation on those sites. :) ----------------------------------- fatboy316 Sat Sep 24, 2005 3:00 pm ----------------------------------- i looked at the faq's but it doesn't tell u how to install. Can u link me to where i can learn to install it? ----------------------------------- fatboy316 Sat Sep 24, 2005 3:02 pm ----------------------------------- Oh, is that site the EXE installer that doesn't require u to download all those other files separetely and make batch files or something? ----------------------------------- wtd Sat Sep 24, 2005 3:30 pm ----------------------------------- Yes, there's an easy installer for Mono for Windows. MonoDevelop is a bit trickier, and I apologize for not remembering that. http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/MonoDevelop_for_Windows ----------------------------------- fatboy316 Sat Sep 24, 2005 10:52 pm ----------------------------------- i still don't understand how to install it! How do u open a monodevelop-r2091.tar.bz2 file? Can you please write some instructions for me? I downloaded mono and installed it but it doesn't have an IDE ----------------------------------- [Gandalf] Sat Sep 24, 2005 10:56 pm ----------------------------------- You need to extract it using WinRar, then double click it, and install.