Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Free C# Tools

Are you a C# programmer? I am. How much money did you spend to buy C# development tools? $100? $1000? OK, I'm happy to say that I spend none to it ;) Seriously, Microsoft gave us chances to develop C# applications without having to pay (of course you have to pay for the Windows, and by the way... it is not about piracy, so it is legal). While .NET Framework and the compiler are free to be distributed, programmers still need to buy Visual Studio.NET. But don't worry: Microsoft had released a version of Visual Studio that is totally free, even for commercial applications! And even better: you can try SharpDevelop, an open-source application that worked perfectly like Visual Studio.NET. Of course those two tools has several weaknesses... but hey, they are totally free! (I admit it, I'm crazy for free stuffs :P). Borland C# Builder could be one last alternatives since it has a personal edition (but no commercial application). So now it is up to you, free or pay?
at Wednesday, April 26, 2006
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4 comments:

  1. I love free things too!
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  2. ato beli bahakan bib kekekke..

    -rizli-
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  3. I like to use QuickSharp 2008 (http://quicksharp.sourceforge.net). It lets me create C# apps quickly without having to go down that whole project/solution route which is great when I just want to test a language feature or create a little util to process a file or some data.
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  4. I'm going to check it out, thanks for the info
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