Work on VisEmacsDotNet started

Posted on February 20th, 2004 by Jeff

Yesterday I began work on the Visual Studio.Net version of VisEmacs. Many of you have been asking me if and when a .NET version would be available and the answer is, well, I still don’t know. I am working on it, and have made pretty good progress so far. The Document Object Model for VS.NET has changed pretty dramatically; there’s quite a bit of code that has to be rewritten.

My intention for VEfVSDN (that looks horrible, doesn’t it? I think it needs a new name) is that it be a commercial product. How much would you pay for a slick addin that lets you use your favorite editor ? $100? $200? I’m thinking that it retail for under $50; exactly how much I haven’t decided yet.

So far, I have the debugging system working. It’s pretty neat, actually. With VS.NET, an addin can create it’s own pane in the output window, and can even give it a meaningful name, unlike before.

I also have the core preferences code written so that user preferences can be read from and written to the registry. I don’t speak ATL so I have to learn that as I go. My goal is to have VisEmacsDotNet be MFC free.

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