Microsoft Visual Studio Alternatives and Similar Software

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Eclipse
Open Source by Eclipse Foundation, Inc. |
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Eclipse is an extensible development platform with runtimes and application frameworks for building, deploying and managing software across the entire software lifecycle. Many people know Eclipse as a Java...

Development php, programming, ide, java, python, perl
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NetBeans
Open Source by Netbeans Open Source Community |
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A free, open-source Integrated Development Environment for software developers. You get all the tools you need to create professional desktop, enterprise, web, and mobile applications with the Java language,...

Development development, php, ide, java, ruby, cpp, groovy
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Aptana Studio
Open Source by Aptana |
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Aptana Studio is a complete web development environment that combines powerful authoring tools with a collection of online hosting and collaboration services that help you and your team do more. Includes...

Development, Office & Productivity collaboration, php, web-development, css, ftp-support +1 more, application-builder
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QT Creator
Open Source by digia |
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Qt Creator is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) tailored to the needs of Qt developers. It includes: * An advanced C++ code editor * Integrated GUI layout and forms...

Development programming, developer-tools, ide, developer +10 more, code-editor, debugger, suite, environment, development-suite, programmer, gui-designer, multi-platform, gui-builder, code-management
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Code::Blocks
Open Source by Code::Blocks Team |
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Code::Blocks is a free C++ IDE built to meet the most demanding needs of its users. It is designed to be very extensible and fully configurable. An IDE with all the features a developer need, having a...

Development portable http://wiki.codeblocks.org/index.php?title=FAQ-Settings#Q:_How_do_I_make_Code::Blocks_portable.3F, development, programming, ide, c-plus-plus +7 more, mingw, gcc, gdb, ide-for-c, dev-c, wxsmith, ms-vc
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Komodo Edit
Open Source by ActiveState |
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Komodo Edit is a fast, smart, free and open-source code editor. Switching your trusty code editor is hard, but give Komodo Edit (or its big brother Komodo IDE) a try: it'll be worth your while. Windows,...

Development text-editor, code-editor, html-editor, php-editor +4 more, macros, python-editor, javascript-editor, perl-editor
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Xcode
Free by Apple |
- Mac
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Xcode is Apple's premiere development environment for Mac OS X. In addition to being packaged on the DVD with every copy of Mac OS X, the latest Xcode developer release is always available for free to ADC...

Development development, programming, developer-tools +10 more, development-suite, storyboard, objective-c, interface-builder, instruments, ios-sdk, mac-sdk, shark, dashcode, webobjects
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MonoDevelop
Open Source by Novell |
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MonoDevelop is a cross-platform IDE primarily designed for C# and other .NET languages. MonoDevelop enables developers to quickly write desktop and ASP.NET Web applications on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX....

Development development, web-development, dotnet +2 more, development-suite, .net-framework
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Visual Web Developer Express
Free by Microsoft |
- Windows
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A free stripped down version of Visual Studio aimed at web development in .net framework.

Development web-development, text-editor, ide, wysiwyg, dotnet +1 more, net-framework
Bloodshed Dev-C++

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This application has been discontinued. More info: The project was no longer noticeably active. Last version, 5 Beta 9.2 (4.9.9.2), was released on February 21th 2005. It is still downloadable, but a maintained version of Dev-C++ with updated code is developed by a programmer called Orwell: Orwell Dev-C++. You can find it here: http://alternativeto.net/software/orwell-dev-c-/
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SharpDevelop
Open Source by IC#Code |
- Windows
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#develop (short for SharpDevelop) is a free IDE for C#, VB.NET and Boo projects on Microsoft's .NET platform. It is open-source, and you can download both sourcecode and executables.

Development development, web-development, development-suite +2 more, net-framework, c-sharp
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Visual C# Express Edition
Free by Microsoft |
- Windows
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Visual C# Express Edition is a slimmed-down version of Visual Studio only supporting C#, but is better for beginners.

Development ide, visual-studio
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Lazarus
Open Source |
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Lazarus is a cross-platform IDE for the Free Pascal compiler. It tries to offer a Delphi-like programming experience through its own 'Visual Component Library' while also supporting other platforms...

Development programming, ide, pascal, delphi, languages.min.10
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KDevelop
Open Source |
- Mac
- Linux
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KDevelop is a free, open source IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, Max OS X and other Unix flavors. It is a feature-full, plugin extensible IDE for C/C++ and other...

Development development, programming, developer-tools, python +9 more, ide, java, ruby, software-development, perl, extensible, pascal, cplusplus, development-suite
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CodeLite
Open Source |
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CodeLite is a powerful open-source, cross platform IDE for the C/C++ programming languages.

Development development, programming, ide
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Zend Studio
Commercial by Zend |
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Zend Studio for Eclipse combines proven capabilities to create the world’s most powerful IDE for Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). Studio's powerful developer tools combined with Adobe Flex Builder and...

Development php, design, html, ftp, css, ruby, syntax
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Anjuta
Open Source by Johannes Schmid and others |
- Linux
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Anjuta is a versatile Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for C and C++ on GNU/Linux. It has been written for GTK/GNOME and features a number of advanced programming facilities including project...

Development development, programming, ide, java, python, gnome, gtk +3 more, development-suite, cplusplus, cpp
NVU

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This application has been discontinued. More info: Development stopped in 2005
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WebStorm
Commercial by JetBrains |
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JetBrains WebStorm is a commercial IDE for JavaScript, CSS & HTML built on JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA platform. WebStorm provides automatic code completion, on-the-fly code analysis, refactoring support...

Development web-development, javascript, html, ide, css +4 more, code-editor, html-editor, syntax-highlighting, coffeescript
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Rapidweaver
Commercial by RealMac Software |
- Mac
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A WYSIWYG web editor for mac. Intuitive program allows for the creation of complex websites in a short time with little to no coding experience required. Rapidweaver integrates with several web 2.0...

Development text-editor, web-development, ftp, sftp

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