IDE Recommendations (C#)

[Eoin]

Alright lads and ladies,

I'm not sure if this is the right forum to post in, but the title says it all. What IDE (minus VS, as 1. I don't have good enough internet to download it, and 2. Its Visual Studio) is perfect for C# development? I'd like to see some plug-in for Eclipse, but fat chance of that happening anytime soon.

If VS is the only good one, I'm double-o fucked.

Thanks,
Eoin

EDIT: On Windows, specifically.

 

[CookieMonster]

Maybe try SharpDevelop, MonoDevelop, VS Code? I guess it kind of depends on what your criterion for a good IDE is...

 

[Rich]

MonoDevelop comes with Unity, and is pretty good. But Visual Studio Community Edition is awfully good...

 

[Eoin]

MonoDevelop comes with Unity, and is pretty good. But Visual Studio Community Edition is awfully good...

It may be good (I've used 2015 in the past on other machines, not owned by myself), but my internet is awful. It took ~3 hours to download base Unity 2017.x. So around 2GB. VS is massive, and my computer (and internet, for that matter) usually shit itself when I try to download/install it.

And unfortunately for meself, placed in the Irish countryside, fibre doesn't seem to be coming anytime soon. I'll give Mono a go and see how I get on.

 

[Dasanko]

Alright lads and ladies,

I'm not sure if this is the right forum to post in, but the title says it all. What IDE (minus VS, as 1. I don't have good enough internet to download it, and 2. Its Visual Studio) is perfect for C# development? I'd like to see some plug-in for Eclipse, but fat chance of that happening anytime soon.

If VS is the only good one, I'm double-o fucked.

Thanks,
Eoin

EDIT: On Windows, specifically.

I'm not sure what's your thing with Visual Studio, but in my experience, it is the best IDE of all I've tried.
If the downside is having a slow internet, maybe you could try leaving it downloading overnight...

 

[Eoin]

Mono will do the job for now. Thanks for the help!

 

[Droid Productions]

If you're doing Unity, just go with VS. Despite it being VS; the integration is first-class, especially debugging.

 

[Rich]

Also, the Unity 2018.1 release is going to deprecate the use of MonoDevelop. Now that VS is available for the Mac, Unity's going to switch to supporting only VS. MonoDevelop will still be available separately as part of the Mono project, but heaven knows how long or well they'll support it.

Just a word to the wise.

 

[Eoin]

Have downloaded VS as backup to Mono, as I'm using Unity 2017.1. I'll have to get used to working with VS again so.
Thanks lads.

 

[Rich]

Glad you succeeded in sucking it down your narrow pipe! LOL

 

[discepless]

I'm using Rider from IntelliJ...