Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio
Historically, large analyst firms have been somewhat hesitant on covering open source software and bringing integrity to the research they sell to large enterprises. Many have realized that it is vital to cover open source projects alongside commerical proprietary closed-source software. Over the next week, you will see briefings from many of the large analyst firms on an alternative to Visual Studio that is 100% open source...
SharpDevelop 2.0, Beta 1 is available. It is an open-source alternative to Visual Studio 2005, with the added benefit that it can create executables targeting the 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 .NET Framework, as well as Mono 1.1. C# and Visual Basic.NET are both supported.
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