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

[Michael Muegel]

> not being able to have two solutions/copies of MD open

My #1 non-bug issue. Doing "keep solution open" in Open helps but not nearly
as useful as second window.

Jason's open -n trick will help for now. But adding support for MD "windows"
would be really great.

Thanks,
-Mike

From:  Brian Newton <briannewton at gmail.com>
Date:  Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:37:23 -0700
To:  Demis Bellot <demis.bellot at gmail.com>
Cc:  <monotouch at lists.ximian.com>, competent_tech
<xamarinforums at competent.com>
Subject:  Re: [MonoTouch] Do the makers of Monodevelop actually test the
application?

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 <http://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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