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 >> >> >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. >> >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> mailto:altnetseattle%[email protected]<altnetseattle%[email protected]> >> . >> >> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en. >> >> >> >> >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> mailto:altnetseattle%[email protected]<altnetseattle%[email protected]> >> . >> >> > For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en. >> > >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> mailto:altnetseattle%[email protected]<altnetseattle%[email protected]> >> . >> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<altnetseattle%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<altnetseattle%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. 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