Main Area and Open Discussion > General Software Discussion

Source Insight IDE: it seems to be different, and better!

<< < (2/2)

MrCrispy:
No browse database for C# or any .NET languages :( For C++ you get a nice call browser, .NET languages get a class designer and 'Find all references' as well as a common object browser which will look up symbols, but nothing more powerful.

I wish they'd taken more time and finished that feature in for C#, because C# and .NET are an order of magnitude easier to parse and have much richer metadata compared to C++.

f0dder:
Hm, bother!

The browse database is a really useful feature once you learn it, I'm quite surprised they haven't included it for dotNET :-s

exold:
Source Insight is a fantastic editor...for C++. I've found it largely unusable for C# code, unfortunately; the refactoring capabilities of Resharper makes using Visual Studio a worthwhile experience, though. I've been hoping for a long time that the day would soon come when a new release of Source Insight would arrive, with built-in refactoring support (and preferably a usable C# implementation). So far, that hope has been in vain :(. It's still unbeatable as a C++ editor, though, especially if you have a large and/or tangled codebase. I have a couple of blog posts on Source Insight-related stuff:

http://exold.com/article/source-insight-news
http://exold.com/article/ruby-language-definition-file-for-source-insight

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[*] Previous page