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copied!<p>When I say "C# editor" in this post, I mean the Visual Studio C# text editor. Sorry, it's just a typing habit. :o</p> <p>I'll make a guess that the fit and finish of the Visual Studio C# text editor is better than in MonoDevelop. The reason I say this is I've worked on a project in the past and getting the details correct is unbelievably difficult. Here are some items that the Visual Studio C# editor does <em>exceptionally</em> well at that are some of the hardest to duplicate:</p> <ul> <li>Speed and accuracy of IntelliSense, although <a href="http://blog.280z28.org/archives/2008/10/20/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">I've documented</a> how to do handle one of its best features. The Visual Studio 2010 editor is <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/10/22/vs-2010-code-intellisense-improvements-vs-2010-and-net-4-0-series.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">even better</a>, and I <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1229592/intellisense-rules-for-get-best-match-during-member-selection">haven't been able to match it yet</a> (and no one seems to care, so good luck matching this feature set). The IntelliSense engine also does an <em>amazing</em> job handling partially completed (syntactically incorrect) code at a large scale level. It's not as hard to do within statements in a method, but the C# editor is very thorough.</li> <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1318976/smart-indent-algorithm-documentation">Smart Indent is stupid-difficult to do well</a>, and the C# editor does it. Even Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 had major issues here, but it's improved in Beta 2 and <em>almost</em> up to where 2008 is.</li> <li>Code formatting in the Visual Studio C# editor is excellent. This is much easier than the above two points, so I can see MonoDevelop including it (not sure if it does). The primary difficulty doing it as well as Visual Studio does it is matching the customizability - it just tends to lead to some gross code (though this is only my experience, other people may have a beautiful solution).</li> </ul>

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