If you don't like SharpDevelop http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/, you can use eclipse: http://www.gotmono.com/docs/ide/eclipse.html.

I don't use Open Source stuff, but I've been following it for a decade now, and it's come a long way. I'd take Miguel (Mono) and Guido (Python) and Jim Hugunin (Jython and IronPython)over any Program Managers, Microsoft over otherwise, whom I've met, even though I admire most of them very much. Well, Microsoft did take Jim, but they thought it was just going to be a research program. The program managers of the Open Source products that survive tend to be very, very good. I also admire the business sense involved in the Open Source projects: Guido now works for Google (who in turn use Python for a lot of their products), but the survival of Python does not depend on Google, nor on any other corporate entity. It has survived, indeed thrived, on its merits. Wouldn't it be nice if that have been the case for VFP?

Hank Fay

>>I wouldn't exactly call Eclipse or Mono poor tools. But I agree on your other points.
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>>>I'll give you a hint....no business sense, poor tools, lack of leadership
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>Have you used Mono? I tried to write a small app in it... What a joke of a system. The editor was clunky, the system buggy, and only rudimentary support for .Net 1.1, no where close to 3.5. It'll be a decade before they're in a position to produce enterprise business apps.