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

[Jason Awbrey]

I've never had a problem with "Find in Files", and I use it a lot

to open multiple MD instances, try doing it from Terminal.  "open -n
my_project.sln"

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Brian Newton <briannewton at gmail.com> wrote:

> Monodevelop has been relatively stable for me, I've never had issues with
> USB debugging. I did start running into some issues after just straight
> upgrading to Lion, but a full uninstall of all components/reinstall in the
> proper order did the trick. The only thing that's a constant irritant is not
> being able to do find in all files (it just never finds anything) and not
> being able to have two solutions/copies of MD open at the same time as far
> as I can tell. Makes comparing my code with Miguel's amazing sample code
> more difficult. =)
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Demis Bellot <demis.bellot at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> >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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