Re:Introducing Bing Code Search for C#
by mercurial on Tuesday February 18, 2014 @09:02AM
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> Integrated debugging (with edit+continue while debugging)
That's the main reason to use an IDE, in my mind, along with the ability to display the call sites of a function.
> integrated version control interface,
Never noticed any advantage compared to a shell with git or git-svn, personally.
> integrated build system
Depends what you mean by that. What's precious is the ability to detect errors before doing a build or testing anything. "Integrated build systems" in general I find often fall flat on their face when something outside of the IDE touches the files.
That's the main reason to use an IDE, in my mind, along with the ability to display the call sites of a function.
> integrated version control interface,
Never noticed any advantage compared to a shell with git or git-svn, personally.
> integrated build system
Depends what you mean by that. What's precious is the ability to detect errors before doing a build or testing anything. "Integrated build systems" in general I find often fall flat on their face when something outside of the IDE touches the files.