I am with Charlie on a lot of this. I joke often about just using notepad
but that's not something I really would want to do. I would be inclined for
a "visual studio: the good parts" edition however. Preferably a light weight
stand alone editor with good refactoring help (mostly for speed). I've been
doing a little bit of spiking fun in linqpad lately and using the c# program
template to try a few things out, along with trying a little F#. This feels
a lot like what I would prefer to use. An environment I could easily drop on
a thumb drive and go to town with.

Just some thoughts on the topic.
On Nov 16, 2010 8:05 PM, "Charlie Poole" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well of course you *can* work with just notepad and the SDK.
>
> Personally, I'd prefer a better editor than notepad though.
>
> Charlie
>
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Justin Bozonier <[email protected]>
wrote:
>> What if we could develop .NET programs without any IDE... just Notepad
>> and a heart filled with hope? It'd be hawt that's what!
>>
>> I've been ruminating on why I feel so much more productive in Ruby
>> land and on how I can bring some of that to the MS development stack.
>> One of the big pain points for me is Visual Studio and all of its
>> project and solution files.
>>
>> At first I thought it was the fact Ruby doesn't compile.. That's nice
>> but not **huge**... Python compiles after all... Then I realized one
>> of the big things Visual Studio (along with R#) helps me do is find my
>> classes and files. I've seen leaning on Visual Studio cause an
>> enormous loss of cohesion across packages which forms a self-
>> reinforcing cycle of needing even more Visual Studio packagement.
>>
>> This is an experiment I've been working with over the past couple
>> research days that was a thought of what could be done to reduce that
>> pain. It's a Ruby script you can run in a folder to compile all c#
>> files and execute them as though they were a set of scripts and
>> modules. It's VERY simplistic and I only consider it a proof of
>> concept but still I'd like to hear some of your thoughts on this.
>> Ideally, I'd like to be able to develop an entire C# application only
>> using this technique.
>>
>> You can get a rough idea of what's going on inside the tests but I did
>> a bad job testing. So ask questions if you got 'em.
>>
>> Anyone else with thoughts on this or other ways of doing truly
>> "Alt" .NET development? :)
>>
>> The git: https://github.com/jcbozonier/IronLove
>>
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