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Have you ever tried Xamarin Studio? It's not as good as Visual Studio but it's a very decent IDE. I'm currently using it instead Visual Studio.

exhilaration 12y ago
Is it significantly different from Visual Studio? How easily could a VS user transition to it? I think I'd be willing to drop $300 of my own money if I could put my many years of C# experience to work developing iOS and Android apps.
- pauloortins 12y ago
  The only thing that I'm really missing is Resharper. For other things XS is very similar to VS. Remember that the cost is $300 for each platform, so you have to spend $600.
- mikeblue 12y ago
  We just did a webinar about Xamarin Studio last week in case you're interested http://xamarin.wistia.com/medias/z797ghqlps http://xamarin.wistia.com/medias/z797ghqlps
  - pauloortins 12y ago
    Great! Can I add it to the post?
    - mikeblue 12y ago
      Sure. It's probably better to link to the blog post that has the video and the slides available: http://blog.xamarin.com/webinar-recording-native-mobile-apps-in-xamarin-studio/ http://blog.xamarin.com/webinar-recording-native-mobile-apps...
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eropple 12y ago
I disagree. The core write-your-code experience is full of jank, to the point where I have wondered in the past whether the XS folks develop it in XS. Its smart indentation isn't smart (randomly indenting another three levels, not being smart enough to stick to the indent level I pick when I backspace to where I want it--next line, back out there again!) and occasionally the text widget will "lose" a line of text and take a few seconds to remember that it actually exists. The Xamarin toolchain has steadily improved and its PCL support makes a lot of things a lot easier, but I can't envision a use case where I would want to do my development in their IDE. I keep a Windows machine just to have VS so I can do the 90% case there and suffer through the 10% in XS.
- jstedfast 12y ago
  Everyone on the Xamarin Studio team uses Xamarin Studio to develop Xamarin Studio. Smart Indent, afaik, has been fixed. The problem you describe was only an issue for multi-line lambdas, iirc.
  - eropple 12y ago
    The line issue pops up for me in regular control for blocks and I'm using the most recent beta (which I'm uncomfortable doing but had to do to get anywhere). My indenting still gets very confused anywhere I have #if blocks. You know I like you guys, I loved doing GSoC with Mono and I wouldn't have interviewed over there if i didn't like what you're trying to do, but these issues make it really hard recommend Xamarin. Having my IDE make me legitimately mad is a bummer.

exhilaration 12y ago

Is it significantly different from Visual Studio? How easily could a VS user transition to it? I think I'd be willing to drop $300 of my own money if I could put my many years of C# experience to work developing iOS and Android apps.

pauloortins 12y ago
The only thing that I'm really missing is Resharper. For other things XS is very similar to VS. Remember that the cost is $300 for each platform, so you have to spend $600.
mikeblue 12y ago
We just did a webinar about Xamarin Studio last week in case you're interested http://xamarin.wistia.com/medias/z797ghqlps http://xamarin.wistia.com/medias/z797ghqlps
- pauloortins 12y ago
  Great! Can I add it to the post?
  - mikeblue 12y ago
    Sure. It's probably better to link to the blog post that has the video and the slides available: http://blog.xamarin.com/webinar-recording-native-mobile-apps-in-xamarin-studio/ http://blog.xamarin.com/webinar-recording-native-mobile-apps...
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eropple 12y ago

I disagree. The core write-your-code experience is full of jank, to the point where I have wondered in the past whether the XS folks develop it in XS. Its smart indentation isn't smart (randomly indenting another three levels, not being smart enough to stick to the indent level I pick when I backspace to where I want it--next line, back out there again!) and occasionally the text widget will "lose" a line of text and take a few seconds to remember that it actually exists. The Xamarin toolchain has steadily improved and its PCL support makes a lot of things a lot easier, but I can't envision a use case where I would want to do my development in their IDE. I keep a Windows machine just to have VS so I can do the 90% case there and suffer through the 10% in XS.

jstedfast 12y ago
Everyone on the Xamarin Studio team uses Xamarin Studio to develop Xamarin Studio. Smart Indent, afaik, has been fixed. The problem you describe was only an issue for multi-line lambdas, iirc.
- eropple 12y ago
  The line issue pops up for me in regular control for blocks and I'm using the most recent beta (which I'm uncomfortable doing but had to do to get anywhere). My indenting still gets very confused anywhere I have #if blocks. You know I like you guys, I loved doing GSoC with Mono and I wouldn't have interviewed over there if i didn't like what you're trying to do, but these issues make it really hard recommend Xamarin. Having my IDE make me legitimately mad is a bummer.