I'm not a professional or anything, just doing this for fun. Is there a free software suite for web development that would be better to use rather than using notepad++?
For example, I'm learning android development and I use android studio for it.
Thanks
One option for you to consider is Microsoft's new offering, Visual Studio Code.
It's basically a free version of Visual Studio designed to be cross platform (Mac, Linux, Windows) that currently best serves ASP.NET and NodeJS.
I'd consider giving it a shot. I haven't tried it because I use Visual Studio Professional 2013 for work, which is very fully featured. But VS Code will do syntax highlighting for these:
Batch
C++
Clojure
Coffee Script
DockerFile
F#
Go
Jade
Java
HandleBars
Ini
Lua
Makefile
Markdown
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Python
R
Razor
Ruby
Rust
SQL
Visual Basic
XML
As well as Intellisense (like autocomplete, I believe) for these:
CSS
HTML
JavaScript
JSON
Less
Sass
It looks like it also has some sort of built in Git support, which would be really handy. Probably worth at least considering.
https://code.visualstudio.com/
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I installed the GtkSharp 3.22.24.36 package via Project > Add NuGet Packages..., which completed successfully. But now Monodevelop can't decide which version of GtkSharp to use (3.22.24.36 or the in-built one, 2.12).
If I uncheck gtk-sharp in the Edit references... dialog, it tells me that I can't use the UI designer without it.
How do I get Monodevelop to use the downloaded GtkSharp (3.22)?
MonoDevelop comes with a custom version of Gtk2 + Xwt bundled. If you plan to use Gtk3, then the designer must be deactivated, since it won't work with Gtk3.
My advice, anyway, no matter which toolkit you use, is to avoid using the designer. As soon as you involve the designer, you code heavily depends on the IDE you use (Visual Studio, MonoDevelop, NetBeans... you name it).
Creating user interfaces "by hand" is no longer traumatic as it was in the 90's with the Windows API. For example, you can find a very good Gtk# tutorial in ZetCode.
User Interface Toolkits are actually very similar, they change the name of widgets and sometimes provide a slightly different layout, but they are all mostly the same, no matter it is WinForms or Gtk(for C#), Swing (Java), or Qt (C++ and others).
I know its an older question but things changed. Abandon MonoDevelop, just use the .NET Standard bound implementation of GtkSharp. You can then literally design interface using glade xml files, using official Glade application from GTK+. You can find it here.
With the current push from MS to abandon Framework in favor of Core, we finally succumbed when we figured out they will kill Framework (which they just did with .NET 5 announcement), but we also used the opportunity to investigate other options for our ports of LoBs to core. We discovered GtkSharp as WinForms replacement and AvaloniaUI as WPF replacement, which not only work perfectly but also truly work cross-platform. We ported several applications already and actually moved more then half of business work stations from Windows to Linux.
Redmond has a good idea occasionally:
The next-gen Windows will come with a new programming foundation, letting developers build native apps with the same techniques they use for Web applications. Microsoft calls this new variety "tailored apps."
There is always a steep learning curve for developing GUIs; each new toolkit you learn is different enough that it takes a lot of time and effort and frustration. Thus developing in HTML with CSS begins to look very appealing: it's much easier and much more portable; and with HTML 5 and CSS 3, it is very powerful.
Is there any support yet on Ubuntu (or even better, a cross-platform toolkit) for developing native applications that use HTML/CSS for the GUI? To minimize overhead, I do not want to start a full browser session. (That's not very good desktop integration.) I am particularly interested in answers for native JavaScript or Python 3, but any language would be alright (easier to learn a new language than a new GUI toolkit, in my book).
Edit: I have found this page, but have not had time to read it all or test it. It linked to Python XULRunner, but again I have no previous knowledge of it.
This was asked on Ask Ubuntu back in August of 2011.
In summary, the options are:
SeedKit
The JavaScript bindings for GNOME.
There are more options, but those are the two "big ones".
You can write native apps in HTML/CSS and Javascript using node-webkit, is an app runtime based on Chromium and node.js, you can use node.js modules into your apps. it's available on Linux, Mac OSX and Windows
I would like to add QtWebKit to the list. It's like SeedKit with better support.
I'm using it personally on a project where we have native (C++) code for the data layer, business logic and the presentation layer is done via HTML5 and heavy use of JavaScript. As far as I know Qt can be used with python as well so perhaps you could use it for all the business logic.
How can i build clean code for Html forms, tables etc in Linux with some GUI builder or tools. Like there is a Windows tools such as dreamweaver.
Thank you
Sorry, but the only way to have good clean HTML code is to write your own code manually.
To do it, you will need two things to start:
A good code editor that facilitates typing, like Notepad++ does. It can also be some more complex IDE, like Eclipse, Netbeans, MonoDevelop etc.
A strong desire to learn the web standards, using official sources such as the W3C Schools.
Just would like to make clear, I cannot find straight answer. C# is general specification of this language done by MS, while Visual C# is implementation of this language, again done by MS?
So if we say we develop in C# (in visual studio e.g.) we develop in Visual C# actually.
Is that correct?
Yes, you've pretty much got it. Most of us just refer to it as C# though, since it is after all a Microsoft thing, and their implementation of the language is what most coders use (in Visual Studio).
An example of a C# compiler that is not Visual C# is the Mono compiler. The IDE that uses that compiler is MonoDevelop. Both are not Microsoft products, but do implement the C# programming language (as well as the CLR).
I don't think that "Visual C#" is a particularly commonly used term - C# is the language, so I would probably say that "Visual C#" refers just generally to C# development using the Visual Studio suite of products.
Like I said though it's not a commonly used term any more (and as you have pointed it out it is also a somewhat confusing term).
You can say that Visual C# is the tool that is part of Visual Studio, provided my Microsoft used to create programs in the C# language.
There is the ECMA-334 C# Language specification, that defines the language.
There are other tools to create programs in C#, like SharpDevelop or MonoDevelop.
This whole "visual C#" has caused me much unnecessary grief (including one during an interview , given I had never heard of the term 'visual C#' and apparently the interviewer didn't even know what it was and was just trying to put checkmark beside qualifications). To sum, Visual C# doesn't exist. It's just C#, we should file a petition to remove that stupid qualifier.
Visual C# is the name of compiler (and IDE). C# is the language. It is the same as Borland C++ and C++ (first is the specific compiler). Or MySQL and SQL.
For all the answers that "Visual C# is C# developed in Visual Studio" - I would point out that the C# Compiler (CSC.EXE) is not part of Visual Studio but is delivered as part of the Microsoft .net Framework - which is completely independent of the Microsoft Visual Studio line of development tools.
In that it has any meaning at all (beyond the initial marketing idea that it would appeal to Visual Basic developers, who were the majority of Windows developers on launch day) I'd say it refers to C# compiled by the Microsoft implementation of the .net Framework.
Whether or not Roslyn compiles "Visual C#" or "C#" is anyones guess.
C# is a kind of programming lang, something like Java, Ruby, Python.
Visual C# means Microsoft Visual Studio/C#， it's IDE for programming C#.
u also can write C# code in notepad.
I want to develop a forum like web site. I know C, C++ well but I havent used in web development.I know PHP little bit. Which language should i use?
C++ can and has been used to successfully develop highly scalable web applications. That said, one of the main reasons C++ is not so popular in this category is to do with the lack of standard tools and libraries. There is simply no feature rich library which includes all the necessary boiler-plate code needed to write web applications.
PHP is everything that C++ isn't when it comes to web development - a high-level scripting language designed mainly for web development. The description of PHP on the homepage sums it up nicely:
PHP is a widely-used general-purpose
scripting language that is especially
suited for Web development and can be
embedded into HTML.
If you're developing a simple forum, this decision is a no-brainer: PHP. In addition to the obvious advantages to using it, you'll find the syntax familiar as it is C-like. However, if you have all the time in the world, you're feeling brave and this is for hobbies' sake, do it with C++!
Out of those, for web development, PHP for sure.
C and C++ is not the correct choice to develop for web, so if you know PHP it's better.
also you can try python, ASP.net etc...
To add most hosting does not support c++ and they will not in most case so if you were me I will go for PHP and almost(nearly) all hosting service support it.
Also the lack of function for web development in c++ is also a pull down.
Actually, I wonder why you're not considering to use both! Use PHP for the web interface and write special C++ methods for the more complex actions that you want to take. (Although PHP can handle most of those too.) Basically, this would require less knowledge of PHP and your C++ knowledge stays usable.
Do keep in mind the hosting restrictions of your webhost, unless you're going to host your site on your own system.
Also, do realize that the use of C++ for web development would restrict you to the more general C++ libraries. C++ can be used to write platform-independent code, just like PHP. But not all libraries are supported on every platform.
Finally, PHP already is a powerful language and there are plenty of add-ins for PHP that you can re-use instead of writing it yourself. Still, most of PHP and all the add-ins are written in C++, even though many people just forget about the fact that the code behind PHP had to be written in some language too. Image manipulation, encryption, complex math, etc... It's all been done before for PHP. But it should not stop you from writing your own extensions...
PHP, Python, ASP, JSP, C#.net all should work
C++ is not commonly used for this purpose. Most shared hosting providers won't allow you to run native executables created by C++ for reasons of security (though I suspect this would be manageable with fine-tuned rights) and portability (eg. you'd have to know which OS the shared hoster's webserver runs on and possibly install additional libraries).
Even if you have your own dedicated server with root access, it might still be difficult to properly integrate an executable as CGI into Apache or IIS.
If you're not bound to PHP or C/C++ for some other reason, you could also try C#. Picking up C# from C++ is very easy and ASP.NET allows you to write your complete website in C#. With ASP.NET MVC, you even have an MVC framework comparable in productivity to Ruby on rails. Many shared hosting providers support ASP.NET and through Mono, it's even possible to host ASP.NET web sites in Linux (I'm doing this with my blog ;-))