General Comment

[w8678678]

May I please ask if it is possible to download and install update and individual packages for openSUSE 10.2 offline.

Are there any IDE's similar to Visual Studio Express available for Linux.

[limac]

Hi,
I am not sure about the openSUSE question(I use Slackware )
For the Visual Studio IDE one, I have never used Visual Studio for programming, but fro linux there is KDevelop for many languages. There is also a program called 'Anjuta' I belive only for C/C++.

Note: KDevelop has IDEs for quite a lot of languages.

Regards,
limac

[mhanan]

won't be able to download anything offline...

However installation of any packages in YaST shouldn't be a problem.

[Cabhan]

If you have your packages on a CD, you can use the CD as a YaST repository, allowing you to install offline. Also, if you download the RPMs, you can use YaST to run them, installing them via it.

As for IDEs, there are lots of options out there. Eclipse is very popular for Java and some other languages. KDevelop and Anjuta are also around. The Mono project (an implementation of .NET) provides a C# and ASP.NET IDE. Finally, many of us don't use IDEs at all, and just write our code in Vim or Emacs and then use a Makefile to compile it.

There are lots of choices, so I suggest trying some out and seeing what you think.

[peteh]

If you mean can you download first and then instal offline, then the answer is yes, if you go direct to the repos. However, doing it all through YAST takes care of any dependencies which might otherwise be a problem for you.
I think SUSE is about to stop support for 10.2 (if it hasn't already). You may want to update.

[w8678678]

How can I set Vim and emacs to compile the code for Visual Studio Express C++. Also, may I please ask if there is a documentation containing a description of all the possible compiler errors that Vim and emacs will output, similar to the msdn library.

[Cabhan]

So Vim and Emacs are just text editors. Incredibly powerful text editors, but still just text editors.

We then use GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) to actually do the compilation. For C code, you use "gcc", for C++ code, you use "g++", etc.

So I might write a file called "project.c" with Vim, then run "gcc project.c", which will compile it, and if all succeeds, output an executable called "a.out" (the default name; this can be customized by passing options into gcc). If there are errors, gcc might post an error like "project.c:17:assigning pointer to type int without a cast" or some warning or error like that.

If you Google, I'm sure you will find some guides on using gcc.

[elija]

How can I set Vim and emacs to compile the code for Visual Studio Express C++.

Isn't that the .NET Managed C++?

If so the closest you will get is mono but I don't know if it does the C++ yet, it does do C# and VB.Net