Visual Studio like IDE for linux

[ViborJ]

I have been developing real-time server applications in Visual C++ and C#.Net using Visual Studio IDE on Windows platform.

Now due to organizational needs, we are planning to migrate to Linux Platform.

Please provide an alternative IDE for Visual Studio in Linux.

[GNU-Fan]

.NetBeans.

[drl]

Hi.

See Comparison of integrated development environments - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... cheers, drl

[samalex]

I have been developing real-time server applications in Visual C++ and C#.Net using Visual Studio IDE on Windows platform.

Now due to organizational needs, we are planning to migrate to Linux Platform.

Please provide an alternative IDE for Visual Studio in Linux.

Personally I don't think there's anything as good as Visual Studio, though most of the IDE's I've used under Linux are quite good.

If you're wanting to carry your DotNet code into Linux I'd suggest MonoDevelop which works great. If you're used to coding C# in Visual Studio on Windows, it won't take long before you're on your feet in MonoDevelop... plus much of your code can come over too. You will have to rewrite the forms using the GTK+ toolkit since Windows Forms don't translate well into Mono (from experience anyway).

There's also Eclipse which is an all around IDE that does LOTS of stuff. I think it tries to do too much, and I've always had a hard time using it. Like working with Emacs, if you can learn the in's and out's of Eclipse I think you could rock out some code, but getting to that point may take some time.

Someone else mentioned NetBeans which I love. I do all my PHP coding in NetBeans.

If you want to venture into Qt, which is now owned by Nokia, Qt Creator is great. What's awesome about Qt is you can create multi-platform applications. Well I guess you can in the other IDE's as well, but Qt does the best job at it from what I've seen.

There are MANY other IDE's but I think these are the biggies most people use. It also depends on what you're coding and whether or not you guys want to pick-up a new language coming from the world of DotNet. Mono is great and you could reuse much of your code if that's the way you'd like to go... but re-evaluating IDE's is a great way to bring new ideas and techniques into the department by checking out new languages. Qt works great on portable and embedded devices, so IMO it's an all around platform though I've not spend nearly as much time working with it as I'd like

Hope this helps -- Take care,

Sam

Also I had links to all the IDE's I mentioned in my post, but the powers that be won't let me add URL's until I make a few more posts. But you can find more info on all the IDE's I mentioned on Google or Wikipedia.