How can I use VIM to do .Net Development [closed]

Answer 1

Right now there's now something called OpenIDENet from ContinuousTests https://github.com/continuoustests/OpenIDE This along with AutoTestNet and EditorEngine provide a seamless Test Driven Development tooling for VIM.

EditorEngine gives AutoTest capabilities & commandline interactions to VIM ( ie. adding references, new projects to a solution etc. )

AutoTest does the heavy lifting by compiling on save; as it watches a directory. It also feeds back when tests fail.

The main page provides a video demonstration & howto for this tooling. Also on windows NuGet is now available to be used from the commandline too.

I must point out that I do not work for continuoustests or get any money or favor from them, it's just that they produce awesome software for developing with.

Answer 2

I'm not connected with the company in any way, but I've heard very good things about ViEmu. If the price were a little lower, I'd get it myself, because I love the editing power of Vim.

Answer 3

If you are on the latest versions of VS, then the solution files can be built with MSBuild, which is basically a NAnt equivalent.

Otherwise, call csc to compile the files yourself.

Answer 4

MSBuild is a very powerful analog to Ant.

Use msbuild project files to manage your .NET projects, and write a nmake file that calls msbuild.

Map your vi make command to nmake

You can just use :make to do a build

Answer 5

Here is a guide on Vim C# compiling.

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In response to the comments -

It sounds like your goal is to have a fully functional IDE that works cross platform for C# development, not necessarily to use VIM. If that's the case, you can use MonoDevelop on all platforms (including Windows, but that's a bit trickier), and since you're probably already using the mono compilers on your other platforms, this might be a nicer option.

Answer 6

I use nant as a build file (very simple and flexible) then call :set makerpg=nant\ compile.all

Then whenever you wan't to compile just type :mak

This can be extended with custom error formats etc.