Visual Studio Express 2012

Is there a way to use Visual Studio Express 2012 to write programs for CC?

Not express but I believe if you have professional you can install plugin type things which allow you to code in lua. (Default LUA, not CC Lua mind you)

The question is, why would you want to? It's so bloated and will make things more difficult. I'd personally use Sublime Text 2 with the CC plugin GravityScore made.

oeed, on 13 October 2013 - 05:15 PM said:

The question is, why would you want to? It's so bloated and will make things more difficult. I'd personally use Sublime Text 2 with the CC plugin GravityScore made.

I approve.

Aaah young people these days. Thinks that everything has to have a Microsoft stamp for it to be any good :-) At least that's how we are taught in Denmark. My philosophy is that you should not be afraid to try new languages, IDEs, frameworks, etc. Choose the tool that best fits. If you only excel in one language and consider other languages bad, you are limiting your ability to express yourself in your code and your chance of getting a reasonable job.

LayZee, on 17 October 2013 - 01:50 PM said:

Aaah young people these days. Thinks that everything has to have a Microsoft stamp for it to be any good :-) At least that's how we are taught in Denmark. My philosophy is that you should not be afraid to try new languages, IDEs, frameworks, etc. Choose the tool that best fits. If you only excel in one language and consider other languages bad, you are limiting your ability to express yourself in your code and your chance of getting a reasonable job.

I'd say it's actually more likely he didn't know there were more free options available out there than clinging onto Microsoft as "god of computers"…

ShadowedZenith, on 17 October 2013 - 02:11 PM said:

LayZee, on 17 October 2013 - 01:50 PM said:

Aaah young people these days. Thinks that everything has to have a Microsoft stamp for it to be any good :-) At least that's how we are taught in Denmark. My philosophy is that you should not be afraid to try new languages, IDEs, frameworks, etc. Choose the tool that best fits. If you only excel in one language and consider other languages bad, you are limiting your ability to express yourself in your code and your chance of getting a reasonable job.

I'd say it's actually more likely he didn't know there were more free options available out there than clinging onto Microsoft as "god of computers"…

I only wondered if it was possible as I am using it for my C# programming in computer science at college. I didnt want to have several IDE's installed and to keep getting confused between the 2. And intellisense helps with forgeting capitalisation.

Ah. A lot of the time you'll realize that there isn't a "single tool for the job" when it comes to the development world. For example, if I'm writing an application, which IDE/Text Editor I use depends largely on the language and the features of the IDE, so for Java I'd use Eclipse, for C#/any .NET languages I'd use Visual Studio 2010/2012, for D/C/C++/any low level language I don't need fancy tools to work with I'd use good old reliable Sublime Text 2. There isn't really a "one tool fits all" IDE currently that I've been able to find.

oeed, on 13 October 2013 - 05:15 PM said:

The question is, why would you want to? It's so bloated and will make things more difficult. I'd personally use Sublime Text 2 with the CC plugin GravityScore made.

That looks nice. Specially with the CC plugin.

Notepad++ ftw! (if you have windows. XD)

ShadowedZenith, on 18 October 2013 - 09:06 AM said:

Ah. A lot of the time you'll realize that there isn't a "single tool for the job" when it comes to the development world. For example, if I'm writing an application, which IDE/Text Editor I use depends largely on the language and the features of the IDE, so for Java I'd use Eclipse, for C#/any .NET languages I'd use Visual Studio 2010/2012, for D/C/C++/any low level language I don't need fancy tools to work with I'd use good old reliable Sublime Text 2. There isn't really a "one tool fits all" IDE currently that I've been able to find.

For me, I use Eclipse for Java (currently working on awsmazinggenius's Peripherals - don't PM me for the ETA), PyCharm for Python and Notepad++ for Lua (yet to find a Lua IDE that is worth it's price)

I quite like Visual Studio, but I don't think I'd bother with any fancy IDE for Lua. I just use Notepad++ with Lua syntax highlighting. And copious help from the wiki :P/>