[MonoTouch] Do the makers of Monodevelop actually test the application?

[Demis Bellot]

>Sigh, Reply all...

The main problem with MonoDevelop is most devs using it are coming from a
VS.NET <http://vs.net/> (and possibly R#) background, so yeah the new IDE
and lacks some features that can slow down productivity some-what.

But the value of MonoTouch/Droid is clearly being able to run C# on
iOS/Android with the possibility of re-using your existing code-base which
IMHO more than makes up for any productivity loss.
In this light, the value more than justifies the cost.

- Demis


On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 7:07 PM, competent_tech <xamarinforums at competent.com
> wrote:

> I pay $2500/year for visual studio which has crashed about the same number
> of
> times as monodevelop since I started using it 3 months ago.
>
> I pay $1500/year for one windows/asp.net component suite and filing bugs
> with the vendor results in them telling us that the obviously broken
> control
> behavior is by design after "analyzing" the issue for 2 months. The first
> and only bug I have filed with monotouch/monodevelop had a workaround in <
> 2
> hours and a permanent fix in < 24 hours.
>
> We were able to convert more than 500,000 LOC from an existing Windows
> tablet app written in VB to monotouch in 3 months and now have customers
> lining up at the door for the iPad version.
>
> Yes there are some issues and I would be happy to have more third party
> controls and suites to choose from, but overall, monodevelop and monotouch
> are absolute steals and incredibly well supported.
>
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