Thursday, 20 September 2007

Software tools discovered

Ok this week I have a mixed bag of offering for you to take a little look at.. The first is a bit of software called Sharpdevelop. This is a open source version of Visual studio aimed specifically at c#  and VB.net users. the look is similar to visual studio but without the visual bit, this is aimed at true coders. Microsoft have there own free solutions called Visual studio Express they are free but have limitation

I discovered Sharpdevelop. via a tip on a message board in a discussion about Version control software, I have recently installed the sourceforge free 15 user Management system what I have to say is an excellent management tool for development projects. This came with a choice of Subversion or CVS. I had been using WinCVS along with CVSNT but found it lacked a lot of features I would like and could be problematic at times. So I decided to take a look at Subversion, Its not perfect but its a lot closer to perfect than CVSNT. I would fully recommend you use TortoiseSVN if your using a windows based environment.  so all these tools together along with my old fav's have come together to make a great development environment for me to work in. if your using the Sourceforge system I would Highly recommend you get a copy of Sourceforge explorer as well as many other great add in's. Now I know last time I said I would try to blog more often but and I still hope to do that just sometimes life get in the way. and maybe I have spent to much time on the IMVU boards. debating Linux disto's and laughing at BSD users who think they are better than Linux users

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