[MonoDevelop] MonoDevelop and RCP

[Michael Hutchinson]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Bruno Orcha <gimcoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Question about MonoDevelop, Mono.Addins and the future: is it planned
>  to create a new framework or lib for create Applications?.
>
>  In the eclipse IDE world, exists Eclipse RCP (Rich Client Platform),
>  which you can use to create applications extending extension point that
>  plataform provides (menubar, pads, taskservices, etc).
>
>  The core of MonoDevelop could be the equivalent of Eclipse RCP, for the
>  mono world, so we can create mono applications using MonoDevelop.Core
>  (or Mono Rich Client Platform).

This is already possible: see
http://monodevelop.com/Architecture_Overview. In fact the IDE itself
is an Addin on top of the lower layers of MonoDevelop :-)

I'm sure there are things that we could move "downwards" to be useful
to other applications, e.g. the property grid widget, but it's hard to
know what's needed until we have developers using the platform.

-- 
Michael Hutchinson
http://mjhutchinson.com