JohnCP Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 Hi all, Real dumb question: What's the difference between a text editor and an Integrated Development Environment (IDE)? Thanks, JP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbstractApproach Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 Hi all, Real dumb question: What's the difference between a text editor and an Integrated Development Environment (IDE)? Thanks, JPNot 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smiles Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 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 ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jesh Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sniffy Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 Yeah, like an IDE will correct or show errors in the document. It also has features such as what line you're on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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