X-develop Professional 1.0 Released - Alternative IDE to Visual Studio .NET - Multi-Language IDE - C# VB.NET Java J#

Omnicore has released X-develop Professional 1.0. X-develop is a new multi-language IDE for professional coders. X-develop Professional 1.0 supports the .NET, Mono and Java platforms as well as the C#, VB.net, Java, JavaServer Pages and J# programming languages. X-develop includes features such as on-the-fly error checking,
refactoring and smart code templates.

Feature highlights:
General

  • Support for Visual Studio 2003 and Visual Studio 2005 projects
  • Support for C# 1.0
  • Support for C# 2.0
  • Support for VB.NET
  • Support for J#
  • Support for Java 5.0
  • Support for the Mono framework
  • Support for the .NET framework v1.0 and v2.0
  • Support for Windows and Linux (Mac OS X planned)
  • Open API (plugin support)
Code analysis and code editor
  • Multi-language core engine
  • Project-wide on-the-fly error checking
  • Sophisticated code completion
  • Dependency-based .NET build
  • Organize imports/usings
  • Go to class/symbol by name
  • Go to overriding/overridden method
  • Configurable code formatter
  • Find usages
Refactoring
  • Cross-language refactoring
  • Rename variable/member/type/namespace refactoring
  • Move types refactoring
  • Inline variable refactoring
  • Inline method refactoring
  • Introduce variable refactoring
  • Extract method refactoring
Version control support
  • Unified user interface for all VCS
  • On-the-fly diff display
  • On-the-fly annotation view
  • Checkin dialog with diff view
  • CVS support
  • Bitkeeper support
  • Sourcesafe support
  • Subversion support
  • Extendable with plugins
Debugging
  • Java debugger with Step back
  • .NET debugger
  • Experimental Mono debugger (Linux only)
Compatibility with VS.net
  • Reads and writes VS.net 2003 project files
  • Reads and writes VS.net 2005 project files
  • Can use VS.net 2005 project templates
  • Supports building VS.net projects with Mono
Other
  • Streamlined clutter-free GUI
  • Supports switching between installed .NET/Mono frameworks
More information and a free trial are available at http://www.omnicore.com

posted on Wednesday, April 13, 2005 8:42 PM

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