OT: on IDEs and code writing on steroids

[Yigal Chripun]

BCS wrote:
>> one other thing, this thread discusses also the VS project files. This
>> is completely irrelevant. those XML files are VS specific and their
>> complexity is MS' problem. Nothing prevents a developer from using
>> different build tools like make, rake or scons with their C# sources
>> since VS comes with a command line compiler. the issue is not the
>> build tool but rather the compilation model itself.
> 
> I think you are in error here as the c# files don't contain enough 
> information for the compiler to know where to resolve symbols. You might 
> be able to get away with throwing every single .cs/.dll/whatever file in 
> the project at the compiler all at once. (Now if you want to talk about 
> archaic!) Aside from that, how can it find meta-data for your types?
> 
  you're mistaken since there are build tools that support C#. I think I 
saw this in Scons last time I looked.