Author Topic: Microsoft Visual Studio (Read 2426 times)

sandbox · « **on:** August 10, 2007, 01:19:11 AM »

I'm wondering if there's a program like Microsoft Visual Studio for OSX?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_Studio

Visual Studio 2008
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700831.aspx

Shades of Gray · « **Reply #1 on:** August 10, 2007, 10:31:34 AM »

If you mean to code in Office as the replacement for VB6 (on Windows) or VB5 (on Macs), the answer is no.

There was a hint at MacMojo (MacBU board) about a future cross platform solution as a replacement/alternative for VBA/etc. No idea what that might be.

sandbox · « **Reply #2 on:** August 11, 2007, 07:41:53 PM »

Thanks Shades, a friend is using Visual Studio and i thought maybe Apple had a
intergrated development environment package that was similar.

Paddy · « **Reply #3 on:** August 11, 2007, 08:51:25 PM »

SB, here's an interesting page with various applications described. Until the Intel Macs appeared, CodeWarrior would have been the weapon of choice.

http://microsoft.toddverbeek.com/dev.html

For Macs, the equivalent is XCode.

http://developer.apple.com/tools/xcode/
http://developer.apple.com/products/online.html - think you can join the ADC Online for free and then download the XCode Tools update - the Tools are bundled with 10.4, but not installed by default.

http://blog.phanfare.com/2005/10/xcode-vs-visual-studio/

Shades of Gray · « **Reply #4 on:** August 11, 2007, 10:17:10 PM »

As I understand it, the biggest hurdle in VS.net (and VBA) was ActiveX, which provides much of the later development in VBA and now in VS.net, and which is a problem for "openings" into the software itself.

This from someone whose last true programming experience (I have done some VBA on the Windows side) was Fortran IV on an IBM 360.

sandbox · « **Reply #5 on:** August 12, 2007, 01:33:30 AM »

Hey, thanks folks. I was a bit curious. My friend is building an application with Visual Suite and I had no idea what it was. I thought if there was an Apple equivalent then i could get my head around it.

Paddy · « **Reply #6 on:** August 12, 2007, 10:14:28 AM »

There is - XCode. But it's only for Mac application development. In the comparison of VS and XCode, by someone who had only used VS, and in several other web postings, people said that it was easy to use. (Which may be entirely relative - I've never done any programming since a course in BASIC which I took about 25 years ago!!) Don't think my husband has tried XCode yet, though he did use Codewarrior which was a cross-platform development environment, but no longer works with Intel Macs. Were you looking for something cross-platform?

sandbox · « **Reply #7 on:** August 12, 2007, 08:07:50 PM »

My friend is looking at VB (visual basic), i suggested Ruby on Rails to build a new application, he said he was looking at writing it in Cobol, I said look at Ruby, he said Visual Suite ....I said I don't know what to compare it with? He, like Shades started in Fortran and feels he can better control the application if he writes it from scratch. I have Locomotive, the mac version of Ruby and think it could work for his needs though I'm hard pressed to understand the full application proposal.

Paddy · « **Reply #8 on:** August 12, 2007, 08:43:01 PM »

Ah - web apps. Wasn't sure, there!

Interesting:

http://developer.apple.com/tools/rubyonrails.html

Lots of things to do/think about for the adventurous. I've got sooo much stuff I'd like to learn about (CMS, MySQL etc.) It's mind-boggling.

sandbox · « **Reply #9 on:** August 12, 2007, 10:36:28 PM »

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527310/toc.html

Shades of Gray · « **Reply #10 on:** August 13, 2007, 07:24:37 AM »

What about Python since it is cross-platform? Might that work? I have read some on Python being a possibility for controlling MS Office.

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