I doubt you'll find any business or organization that has adopted .NET
development without Visual Studio.NET. The truth of it is that the
..NET Framework languages were designed side-by-side with the Visual
Studio.NET team and in some areas changes were even made to the
language to help build a more effective Visual Studio product. To
really harness and appriciate the RAD capabilities of .NET you need an
IDE that takes advantages of what's there, and right now Visual
Studio.NET is the only one that's doing that.
Having said that, if you are a beginner I think it's better to work
with the raw materials, use the command-line utilities to compile, use
your choice of text editor. Learning all this will accomplish two
things: 1. You'll have an understanding of what's going on under the
hood of VS.NET and 2. You'll have a much greater appriciation of what
the VS.NET IDE is doing for you.
sa***@logicians.com (Trevor) wrote in message news:<88**************************@posting.google. com>...
I am just learning c# and I have a book entitled "Programming c#"
O'Reilly. It strongly recommends Visual .Net.
Can anyone enlighten me on their experiences of SDK versus Visual
.Net?