We provide full-featured Express editions (Phone, Win8, Desktop & Web) that are free, have you looked at those?
-----Original Message----- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Katherine Moss Sent: Friday, May 3, 2013 10:07 AM To: ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com Subject: Visual studio and SharpDevelop: who uses which on this list and why? Hi all, I'm just looking for various opinions on the two most prominent development environments for .NET, what you guys like about each, what could be improved, and so on. I use Visual Studio professional 2012 simply due to the accessibility factor; Avalon edit doesn't work very well with screen readers, and though I've spoken to the developers of SharpDevelop, they told me that making it accessible would take basically recoding the entire interface with UIA properties included, but if those properties are missing from the base framework to begin with, then it's kind of hard, so I let it go. I trust that those on the project know what they are doing and what they are talking about and that they are not just trying to blow my request off due to laziness. And it seems to me that Visual Studio has more features. Though I kind of wish Microsoft would consider an open source license for the professional edition; either for a very low price or for free as long as your project matches x set of licenses or something like that, but I know that's probably never going to happen. I say that because development for me will be something fun for me to do while not at work, on vacation, ETC, and not for career choices or profit. I feel that some of the greatest software has been made via Open Source with only donations to support it, and that some open source software is better than it's commercial counterpart all because a bunch of developers got together and decided to make a selfless difference in the world. Anyway, I'm just curious as to what everybody uses on here and why.
