[Mono-dev] New GSoC projects

[Julian Adams]

It'd be great to have a solution setup and workflow for creating
MonoDevelop plugins. Or does that exist and I've missed it?

On 27 February 2013 01:06, Jordan Earls <earlz at lastyearswishes.com> wrote:

> One thing that's bugged me recently is lack of "extract to interface" and
> bad intellisense when specifying parameter names for lambdas. Not sure how
> involved those are. Don't seem overly completed to me though
> On Feb 26, 2013 7:58 PM, "Alan" <alan.mcgovern at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There is support for that already, though it may need to be tweaked
>> slightly to improve it's behaviour. You need to enable 'on the fly
>> formatting' in the text editor options.
>>
>> This would be a good task for GSoC, but it would only be part of a
>> larger project. By itself it would probably take less than 2 weeks to
>> fix issues and add tests to verify the behaviour.
>>
>> Alan
>>
>> On 26 February 2013 06:06, quandary <quandary82 at hailmail.net> wrote:
>> > I don't know how good it is for a student project,
>> > but one of the things that have annoyed me quite a bit in the past
>> > is the lack of automatic indentation in MonoDevelop.
>> >
>> > If you copy-paste code from one place to another
>> > (e.g. stackoverflow post to your program),
>> > you have a horrible mess afterwards.
>> > And while it's trivial to clean up the mess,
>> > it's relatively time-consuming and highly annoying.
>> > In Visual Studio, if you put the closing brace },
>> > it automatically indents the code for you.
>> >
>> > I find this feature immensely useful,
>> > yet profoundly lacking in MonoDevelop. ;)
>> >
>> > The bad thing is, that when I work on Linux and copy a lot
>> > (for example when I wrote a C# mount wrapper,
>> > for which I copy-pasted and then converted a lot of C-code) ,
>> > I have to occasionally switch over to Visual Studio to clean up the
>> mess,
>> > because I cannot work anymore in that mess.
>> > This means I have to copy the MonoDevelop project
>> > from the Linux machine to the windows machine,
>> > and then back again, over a not that fast wireless network,
>> > not to mention the long startup time of windows.
>> >
>> > Now that debugging and IntelliSense in MonoDevelop work great,
>> > the moment that automatic indentation arrives would be the moment
>> > I'd dump Visual Studio more or less completely.
>> >
>> > One of the nicest features in Visual Studio is,
>> > that you can choose to customize the indent formatting,
>> > e.g. you can have it indent not only like  K & R, but also like ANSI.
>> > For example I like ANSI indentation, like in the C# code,
>> > but the default indentation for JavaScript is K & R,
>> > but you can choose to have newlines before opening braces in
>> > Tools-> Options ->SourceCode Editor -> JScript
>> > which then effectively indents like ANSI.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 02/25/2013 03:53 AM, Udesh Liyanaarachchi wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > Thanks Arthur pointing out this.
>> > I'm a student and I would like to start work on adding an enhancement
>> for
>> > MonoDevelop.
>> > If anyone can suggest an idea it would be great.
>> >
>> > thanks...!!!
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:42 AM, Arthur Grimnirsen <
>> grimnirsen at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi List,
>> >>
>> >> saw the sign on "StudentProjects" page, saying that proposals haven't
>> been
>> >> updated yet, but I'm wondering - are there any long awaited changes
>> that are
>> >> surely to be proposed?
>> >>
>> >> Also, are you ready to discuss students' own ideas at moment? I
>> remember
>> >> having some ideas on MonoDevelop user experience - is this list a right
>> >> place to submit them?
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >>     Arthur.
>> >>
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>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> > Udesh Liyanaarachchi
>> > B.sc. Eng (Undergraduate)
>> > Department of Computer Science & Engineering
>> > University Of Moratuwa
>> > Sri Lanka.
>> >
>> >
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