Visual Basic .NET Text Editor

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I'm sure you've seen them. They're like Wordpad, with an attitude.

They're a basic word proccessor in the vein of wordpad or notepad, but for programming/scripting. You can apply settings to them (in downloadable files) to allow them to emulate the formatting of a particular langauge.

I think UltraEdit is one... theres another called Cheetah or something like that.

Some have ActionScript, vb6, Java, C, C++, I think one had C#... But I'm looking for one with vb.net.

Obviously it won't have IntelliSense, but it'll keep the standard formatting of vb.Net, with coloured keywords and indentations, etc.

Anyone heard of one that worked with VB.Net?
 
There are expandible ones like Crimson Editor and EditPlus. Google will reveal more than I can.
 
Robby said:
Yeah, Visual Studio .NET :)
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Visual Studio.net is FAR from meeting those criteria. Its not a simple text viewer/editor. Load time, resources, pain in the associations, etc, it can't run on slower machines, requires a 2 friggin hour install... I think Microsoft has mastered the art of compression and configuration to the point were it takes 2 minutes to copy the entire cd to your hard drive, but 25 minutes to install whats on it. VS.Net is the slowest installing program I've ever seen. Even the MSDN discs take FOREVER. This is comming from someone who worked as a network admin and had to set up dozens of machines with software. VS.NET seemed to take longer than most 10 disc programs.

Never mind the quasi-legal ramifications of liscenses, which most individuals/companies ignore to an extent.

Sometimes you just need something small and fast to open up a file and edit it. Or to just write up a quick class/s and compile them without dealing with Visual Studio and forcing you to make continious project folder after project folder.

If I go somewere and need to edit a VB.Net file, I don't want to be stuck using notepad (though I've had to use it before).

It would be very cool if MS had a .Net IDE lite or something... but thats not gonna happen.
 
VolteFace said:
There are expandible ones like Crimson Editor and EditPlus. Google will reveal more than I can.
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Yeah I downloaded those when I was working on ActionScript v2.0 (Macromedia has a stupid pain in the registration that only allows you to develop on one machine by doing an internet check, even if you need to develop on both a Mac AND PC; One liscense = One machine. Period.) and used them on the PC. I used UltraEdit and Crimson.

When I went looking, neither seemed to have any VB.NET configurations. I'm not sure how complicated it is to create one... maybe I have to look into that.
 
Crimson highlights .Net quite well. I think it uses VB6 syntax though, but you can make your own easily.

Where you installed Crimson, there will be a sub folder called spec and in there you can copy the basic.key & basic.spc to base .Net off of.

I set one up at work for a language we use there and it wasn't much trouble.

I was looking last night for editors and I think it was called Source Edit. This one does have autocomplete. Start typing and press CTRL + space I think and it givs a list of commands. Not sure if VB.Net was included.
 
dragon4spy said:
Are you talking about SharpDevelop?

Here the link http://sharpdevelop.com/OpenSource/SD/Default.aspx
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That is, indeed, a good solution for liscensing issues, saying you stick with C# and are willing to trust a third party compiler to do everything properly without error.

But its not portable and is probobly just as extensive reasourcewise and installationwise as VS (or at least VB.Net, a single language deal)
 
Shazbots said:
old one that is customizable and free
devpad
here is one that has everything one could want for 29.95 for students
HotHTML 3 Pro
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My #1 concern is that its a standalone program without needing an "Installation" onto a machine. You just stick in your jump drive/floppy/zip disk and get to work.

.Net is very capable of this sort of "Uninstalled Program", but requires the .Net framework to run. Only XP sp1 comes with .Net as a standard option, anything else, you have a 98% chance that the Framework won't be on it unless you put it there, which isn't always possible.
 
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