SharpDevelop vs. Visual C# Express Edition

[jspsh]

I'm thinking of learning C#, which IDE is the better of the two?

 

[mundane]

I can't vouch for SharpDevelop, I've never tried it. We used Visual C# Express Beta for a class, and it was adequate, although not without bugs. I'd saying for learning the language the latter was good - nothing too complicated.

 

[DJFuji]

Haven't really used either, to tell you the truth, but I do like using Visual Studio.NET 2003 for most of my development stuff. There are a few free add-ons that give it on-the-fly compiling too, like JBuilder 10 does.

 

[MDesigner]

I use SharpDevelop. For free, it's really awesome, but I do pretty simple things in C#. It's still in its infancy as far as I'm concerned, and is lacking a lot of features (like a proper menu designer). But it works pretty well. And it can be obtained for free (legally).