This is probably not what you're talking about, but I like Snippet
Compiler<http://www.sliver.com/dotnet/SnippetCompiler/>,
and would love something like that combined with better IntelliSense,
support for WinForms/WPF/Silverlight/ASP.NET, etc, the capacity to
optionally handle multiple files, and....

Oh, wait!  I have something like that.  It's called Visual Studio with R#!

Seriously, though, VS's solution and project files are a pain sometimes, but
I'm not sure what the better options are.

Convention over configuration?

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Howard Dierking <
[email protected]> wrote:

>   I’m working on a blog post at the moment to document the insane hoops we
> had to jump through in order to get our build automation in place for an
> Umbraco extension solution.  VS and .sln files were (as you might expect)
> one of the central problems we had to overcome.
>
> _howard
>
>  *From:* Justin Bozonier <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 16, 2010 8:23 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: Screw You VS Project and Solution Files!
>
> I'll give you both that... There's something between VS and NotePad... Some
> people like Vim or Emacs, Textmate, etc... So yeah. With y'all there.
>
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Eric Ridgeway <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> 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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