how to create simple IDE? - from Where to start ?

hello every one ...

i need some guidance .. i need to develop simple IDE which can hold my custom control & generate xml tags against it like vs.net does when we developing asp.net applications. i know its not that easy.. just need to know from where to start? what keywords to search ? any book out dere ?

what need to be learn to develop these kind of IDE?

i know how to develop custom controls .. need info about creating IDE .. is dere any free open source IDE out dere so that i can look at it ?

any resources & links would be highy appreciated

hoping for the reply soon

Kamran Sorathia

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# 1

http://www.eclipse.org

gwapo at 2007-9-9 >

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# 2

You are correct - building your own IDE is a lot of work. If anything currently on the market will fit your needs, I would definitely recommend using that first. (A MSDN Universal license looks pretty cheap compared to your hourly rate multiplied by the number of person-months/years you would need to develop one from scratch.) If you really need to do it, take a look at SharpDevelop:

http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sharpdevelop

You get full source and there's a book which discusses advanced Windows Forms techniques and building an IDE. What more could you ask for? :)

JamesKovacs at 2007-9-9 >

# 3

Or (not illegal, its free)

Download URL
http://www.apress.com/free/content/Dissecting_A_CSharp_Application.pdf

Source Code including some .chm files
http://support.apress.com/1861008171/sharpdevelop_wroxedition.zip

More details
http://www.apress.com/free/index.html

Tabas at 2007-9-9 >

# 4

try this:
http://www.divil.co.uk/net/articles/designers/hosting.asp

DNF at 2007-9-9 >