Text Editor and IDE?

[JohnCP]

Hi all, Real dumb question: What's the difference between a text editor and an Integrated Development Environment (IDE)? Thanks, JP

[AbstractApproach]

Hi all, Real dumb question: What's the difference between a text editor and an Integrated Development Environment (IDE)? Thanks, JP

Not much. In general, an IDE is a text editor with features geared towards programmers, ranging from simple context coloring of code to complete development, project managment, source control, build/compile tools, and others.Notepad is a text editor. Visual Studio, Eclipse, and Dreamweavers are IDE's.

[smiles]

e.g , when you write your post and want your text be bold , you can write <b>..........st.........</b> ( that likes Text editor ) or another way highlight your sentence and click the B symbol that you see in the bar above textarea ( that likes IDE )

[jesh]

e.g , when you write your post and want your text be bold , you can write <b>..........st.........</b> ( that likes Text editor ) or another way highlight your sentence and click the B symbol that you see in the bar above textarea ( that likes IDE )

Also, with an IDE (e.g. VisualStudio), I can type Re<TAB>.Red<TAB>("http://www.mysite.com"); rather than Response.Redirect("http://www.mysite.com"); because the IDE lists a dropdown menu of possible classes, members, etc. that match what I am typing. You can't get that with a plain text-editor.

[Sniffy]

Yeah, like an IDE will correct or show errors in the document. It also has features such as what line you're on.