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copied!<p>Having only developed programs with .NET through <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_%28software%29" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Mono</a> (using C# and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IronPython" rel="nofollow noreferrer">IronPython</a>), my experience with IDEs only involve <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Emacs</a> and experiments with <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Eclipse</a> and <a href="http://www.monodevelop.com/Main_Page" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MonoDevelop</a>. Mono is free (as in open source), but incomplete with respect to the reference implementation that is Microsoft .NET. The Mono implementation is nevertheless still large enough for enterprise(y) applications. </p> <p>In the IDE corner: At a talk with Anders Hejlsberg (one of the designers of C#), he mentioned that using the .NET platform without code-completion stopped even seasoned testers in their tracks. After that I decided to try out Eclipse and MonoDevelop, both of which have code-completion, but found their abstraction layers prevented me from understanding how the framework really functions. So I returned to Emacs and used the (<em>very</em> slow) online <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d11h6832.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">documentation</a>. I know a lot of developers swear by Visual Studio and can't imagine coding against .NET without the assistance it gives. I just can't get used to parenting in software :).</p> <p>One thing is sure though, and that is that you should go buy <a href="http://www.itu.dk/~sestoft/csharpprecisely/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Peter Seestofts "C# Precisely"</a>; with luck, it's the only general-purpose book on C# you'll ever need. And when/if your page ever loads on MSDN, the documentation you'll find there is also very good. Peter Seestoft has also written a generic collections library for c#: <a href="http://www.itu.dk/research/c5/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">C5</a>.</p> <p>As to what strengths .NET has: It's big (as Java). It's integrated into the Windows platform. A lot of jobs are available if you can use the .NET framework.</p> <p>But - as always - I would recommend Python for great fun when unpaid. (You can also access the .NET framework through IronPython, a Microsoft implementation of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPython" rel="nofollow noreferrer">CPython</a>).</p> <p>Good luck and have fun! Steen</p>

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