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What other kinds of dev stacks are you looking at? I use C# in VS with Add-In-Express for creating Office plugins. It's a total pain in the ass most of the time
by philbarr 13y ago
What other kinds of dev stacks are you looking at? I use C# in VS with Add-In-Express for creating Office plugins. It's a total pain in the ass most of the time and I would love to try something else.
I'm a long time Java/Eclipse guy that's been doing C# for a few years now. Whilst Eclipse is FAR from perfect, it really does beat VS hands down. Like - Resharper is basically a must. And running unit tests in Eclipse feels pretty much instant compared to the VS "I'm going to rebuild everything really slowly before I run the tests" biz.
- Locke1689 13y agoIf you'd like to jot down some of the things in Eclipse that you wish were in VS, I'd love to hear it. Email's in my profile.
- avenger123 13y agoI still believe for enterprise development Microsoft is very viable so I don't see myself necessarily moving away from the platform. At some level, you can't avoid having to upgrade to the latest and greatest Visual Studio but in some ways I am trying to move away from all Microsoft offerings. The biggest is on the database side. I think PostgreSQL running on a linux machine as a database is a very good solution. I would say at this point, this would be the biggest change. I also prefer to use http://www.llblgen.com/ http://www.llblgen.com/ for an ORM instead of Entity Framework. I will tend to pick an open source equivalent for certain functionality instead of relying on Microsoft's version. For example, nunit for unit testing, log4net for logging, Quartz.NET for job scheduling, etc.