.NET Platforms

.NET Core and Mono are open-source .NET platforms. .NET applications are developed using the C#, F# and VB.NET programming languages.

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.NET IDEs in Fedora

IDE License .NET Core Mono Debugger Packaged in Fedora
Eclipse with aCute plugin EPL ✔ ✔    
Monodevelop LGPLv2   ✔ ✔ ✔
JetBrains Rider Proprietary, free for Education and OpenSource ✔ ✔ ✔  
Visual Studio Code with C# plugin Binary is Proprietary, Source Code is MIT, C# extension is Proprietary ✔   ✔  

Installing Eclipse

First install Eclipse through Flatpak

$ flatpak install org.eclipse.Java

then install the aCute extension from the Marketplace

Installing MonoDevelop

$ sudo dnf install monodevelop

Installing JetBrains Rider

Installing Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code is available:

  • as an RPM downloadable from their website.
  • as a Flatpak package installable like so: 
      $ flatpak install com.visualstudio.code

After installing Visual Studio Code you can install the C# Extension from the Marketplace.

Alternatively use the VSCodium for Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VSCode.

Summary

JetBrains Rider is the most complete C# IDE, however it is not open source.

VS Code and MonoDevelop work well for .NET Core and for Mono, respectively.

C# via Eclipse is still young and not very friendly for the former Windows developer, but it can be useful if you’re already an Eclipse IDE user.

Authors: Jaroslav Prokop, Radka Janek, Tom Deseyn