Are there any serious contendors to Visual Studio for .NET development?

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EDIT: This post was originally specific to ASP.NET, but after thinking about it I'm quite interested to discover any contenders to .NET development.

There used to be sharpdevelop IDE, which I'm not even sure if it did ASP.NET (it did WinForms). Express killed it off I think.

EDIT: I was wrong about SharpDevelop (thanks for pointing that out Joel)

In my defence, I went to look it up and saw an old looking website. I clicked on News History and the last update was 2005, which was when I last looked at it! So they made me think it was dead :)

I love Visual Studio and it's very, very powerful - and it's evolved and matured over quite a few years with a big budget behind it.

But I was wondering if anyone knew of anything with a fresh perspective? Any big open source projects that had slipped the radar?

p.s. -1 for anyone who says "notepad + command prompt"! :)

Answer 1

MonoDevelop is an up-and-coming IDE. It's strictly not pure ASPNET but it's pretty good for something so new.