X-develop 1.2 Build 1005 review

X-develop is a multi-language, cross-platform IDE from Omnicore

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial File size: 28727K Developer: Omnicore Software

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X-develop is a multi-language, cross-platform IDE from Omnicore. X-develop targets the .NET platform, the Mono platform, and the Java platform.

It offers advanced code analysis, project-wide on-the-fly error checking, refactoring, smart editing, fast code navigation capabilities, seamless version control system integration, and other productivity-boosting features for C#, Java, JavaServer Pages, J#, and Visual Basic.NET.

On-the-fly Error Checking

On-the-fly error checking of all files throughout the project
Instant display of errors caused by changes in other files
Suggestion of automatic fixes for errors

Coding Assistance

Code completion
Documentation popup display
Create setter and getter methods
Create constructor
Override method
Create stubs for not yet implemented interface methods
Customizable code formatting
Semantic code highlighting
Organize imports

Code Inspections

Find unused methods/fields/variables
Find assigment with no effect
Possible Fallthrough
Unnecessary cast
Unexpected empty statement
Identical if/else clause

Fast Navigation

Goto overriding/overridden method
Goto symbol/class by name
Find usages
Find inheritors of a type
Find overridden/overriding methods
Find method taking/returning a type

Refactoring

Rename class/method/field/variable
Move classes
Change method signature
Extract method
Inline method
Introduce variable
Inline variable

Debugging

.NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0 debugger
Mono debugger
Industry-leading back-in-time Java debugger
JSP debugging

GUI designer

Support for WindowsForms 1.0 & 2.0, GTK#, Swing and AWT
Creates resizable, resolution and font size independent GUIs

Version Control System Integration

Support for CVS, SubVersion, Visual SourceSafe, Bitkeeper and Perforce

Languages

Allready supports Java, C#, JSP, J# and VisualBasic.NET
Open API for custom languages
Cross-language refactoring

Java

Supported on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X
Supports development for JDK 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and 5.0
Full support for JDK 5.0 languages features (generics, enums, autoboxing,...)
Incremental background compilation
Compatibility compilation allows using JDK 5.0 languages features with JDK 1.4

JavaServerPages

Supports development of JSPs
Support Tomcat 4.1, 5.0 and 5.5

J#

Full support for J# 1.1 and J# 2.0 including generics
All productivity features are available for J#

C#

Full support for C#1.1 and C# 2.0 including generics
All productivity features are available for C#

Visual Basic.NET

Full support for VisualBasic.NET 2005 including generics
Most productivity features are available for Visual Basic.NET

Visual Studio.NET

Compatible with Visual Studio.NET 2005 and 2003 projects and solution files (.sln)
Full support for .NET version 1 and 2 on Windows
Uses MSBuild for compilation
Support for VS.NET 2005 project and item templates

Mono

Support for Mono

Limitations:
20-day evaluation trial

What's New in This Release:
This release contains many C#, VB.net, and Mono compatibility fixes.

What's New in This Release:
X-develop now supports debugging with Mono 1.1.12 on Linux x86.