Netbeans vs Visual Studio .NET
Back in January of this year, I wrote that graphical IDEs were, after many years, finally ready for use by top talent developers. Over the last few months, we’ve been doing a lot of development work in both Java and C#.NET. In terms of IDEs, we’ve been using Netbeans 5.5 for Java, and Visual Studio 2005 .NET for C#.NET development.
Taking a broad view, it’s true to say that the Java and C# are pretty similar as programming languages. That’s good news for developers - a competent Java developer can be writing useful C# code in a matter of minutes; and vice versa. But with the current importance of IDEs for maintaining high developer productivity, another important question is: how do the IDEs compare? I’m pleased to be able to report that it’s really easy for Netbeans users to be able to pick up Visual Studio and be doing useful work in a matter of minutes, and to have learnt many of the advanced features in a matter of days; and vice versa.
Visual Studio is perhaps a little slicker in operation than Netbeans, and lets developers perform simple tasks more productively than Netbeans. However, for anything other than the simplest of programming tasks, Netbeans and Visual Studio are seem essentially equivalent overall, with both being easy to use.
FarApart wrote:
one has to be better, while Netbeans is Open Source, it beats .NET
Posted 05 Dec 2006 at 3:17 am ¶
simon wrote:
Why does being Open Source make it better?
Posted 05 Dec 2006 at 8:33 am ¶
Mark wrote:
NEW COMMENT>>>>lol
you guys where done in 2006
netbeans supports many frameworks.
VS 2008 supports only .net framework.
many out of the box products are have netbeans plugin.
99 out of 100 times you find some cool lib free for .net.
Posted 11 Feb 2008 at 8:36 pm ¶
PRASSHHANT wrote:
Netbeans is available for all platforms, OS’s. Runs on older versions of Windows like 2000. And yes NetBeans is FREE! Now Netbeans 6.1 is much ahead in terms of productivity, performance, ease of development etc. So it doesnt seem to lag behind VS.NET in any way.
Posted 30 Apr 2008 at 4:17 am ¶
Himanshu wrote:
Thats Enough Guys!!!
Do you ppl know what you can do with Visual Studio??
Visual Studio 2008 Supports Linq to SQL, 1000s of Latest Ajax Library, Rocking Silverlight, Amazing Jquery.
Enhanced Data base connectivity - Advanced Ado.net, Linq Datasource, XML Data source etc..
Posted 15 Dec 2008 at 7:47 pm ¶
simon wrote:
Yes. I know exactly what you can do with VS 2005 and VC 2008.
To add to add to your list, how about “Incorrectly setting bits (by design!) in executables that leads to non DEP-compliant processes being shutdown by the OS due to access violations.”
All IDEs have pluses and minuses…
Posted 16 Dec 2008 at 11:30 pm ¶