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Jamie Taylor
Jamie Taylor

Reputation: 3530

Is there a Mac alternative to Visual Studio Express?

I've just started programming in VB.Net and don't want to use Dreamweaver to do it all.

I use a Mac for all my other work like design work and coding in Dreamweaver but would like to know if there is an alternative to Visual Studio Express so that I can do all my vb.net stuff on the mac too.

Any suggestions?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 8392

Answers (3)

Carlos Tasada
Carlos Tasada

Reputation: 4444

If you're working in an OSX computer, maybe you should consider creating a VM to have your "Visual Studio" running there. Check VirtualBox or Parallels. You can also use BootCamp to create a new partition with Windows.

Upvotes: 3

Konrad Rudolph
Konrad Rudolph

Reputation: 545885

Unfortunately, there is no usable VB support for OS X. The Mono VB compiler has serious bugs and doesn’t implement the most recent language standard anyway.

It can only be considered experimental and unfortunately it’s not usable in real work.

The Mono C# compiler, on the other hand, is ready for prime-time and up to date with the current C# specification. What’s more, MonoDevelop has recently become quite stable and usable on OS X (apart from some minor glitches) so developing C# is quite enjoyable.

Upvotes: 4

martin clayton
martin clayton

Reputation: 78175

You might consider Mono / MonoDevelop.

Upvotes: 4

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