i recently just got a job and i need to work with visual studio for creating dekstop using visual studio and vb.net, and i cannot seems to find to download visual studio in linux. is there any alternative for visual studio?
You could use Visual Studio Code.
It is in the package code
That being said, it isn’t the same as the old school visual studio IDE that is available on Windows.
Visual Studio is Windows only.
Visual Studio Code is supported on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Visual Studio Code is quite a bit different, so you’ll need to determine whether it’s a viable option for your new employers projects. You may need to simply use Windows, perhaps in VM or dual-boot.
Visual Studio Code is in the AUR.
yay -S visual-studio-code-bin
There is also a fully open-source version, without the proprietary Microsoft additions in the official packages, that @dalto referenced. It will lack a number of features.
sudo pacman -S code
so there is no like ide for vb.net?
It depends what you mean by “IDE”. VSCode is an IDE. It has language support for vb.net.
If you are building a GUI application though, it doesn’t have any of the integrated GUI application building features.
I suggest you try Visual Studio Code, and test.
.NET provides a fast and modular platform for creating many different types of applications that run on Windows, Linux, and macOS. Use Visual Studio Code with the C# and F# extensions to get a powerful editing experience with C# IntelliSense, F# IntelliSense (smart code completion), and debugging.
yeah i meant GUI ide like netbeans and microsof visual studio
I mean, it is a GUI IDE. It just doesn’t have wysiwig GUI building tools for .net.
You can use it to write and run .net code. But you can’t create a form and drag components onto it.
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yeah, i meant it like that. so there is no ide that have wysiwig gui building tools in linux for vb?
If you’re building Windows applications, I’d suggest it’s likely adventageous to be developing and testing under Windows (sorry).
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okay man, thanks for the info
Which features will it lack?
When using the open source version, I missed the marketplace and support for certain extensions.
There’s more details here:
Thanks!
So one misses only specific microsoft marketplace’s extensions, but not the other extensions, right?
Not really, but remember that most extensions are posted to Microsoft’s marketplace. The code package in the Arch repos has OpenVSX implemented, which is a FOSS marketplace for VSCode extensions. Many popular extensions are there, but some aren’t, like Microsoft’s own extensions for different languages like C#, C++, etc. There are alternatives available, however.
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