It is quite a shame that VS2010 itself is not providing any IDE support for IronPython and makes us look at Java based IDEs like Netbeans/Eclipse.
But still, for me nothing to complain as I picked IronPython only as my scripting language choice and can’t say that IDE-wise it is doing worse than Powershell for example.
Same valid for debugging – I believe Powershell and IronPython are both coming on par with debugging.
Here is the best post I have ever found on different IDEs options is from “IronPython in Action” guys: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ironpython/tools-and-ides.shtml
And now back to SharpDevelop:
Just short recapitulation of my experience so far:
You can set breakpoint and it will stop on it, you can read more on setting debugging features here: http://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/mattward/archive/2009/05/30/DebuggingIronPythonCode.aspx
Intellisense works perfectly for .NET members but not for python syntax/members/variables. It would be great to have at least powershell gui kind of functionality where it shows all the members available in the separate window (with help on click).
When I tried to use 2.6.1 version of IronPython (the one for vs2010rc1), debugging stopped working with:
Can not start process. The debugger's protocol is incompatible with the debuggee. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8013134B)
Again, this is an open source project, so the best one can do seeing bugs or missing features is not complain BUT to contribute!! :):).
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