.NET IDEs in Fedora

Overview

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

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

Eclipse is still young and not yet friendly for the former Windows developer. It is a good choice if you’re already an Eclipse IDE user.

Installing JetBrains Rider

• Apply for a license for Open Source projects or students and download Rider
• Or download the Early Access version

Installing Visual Studio Code

From Microsoft

Visual Studio Code is available:

• packaged as an RPM

  First, lets import the GPG key:

  $ sudo rpm --import https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc
  

  Then, we need to create a repo file /etc/yum.repos.d/vscode.repo with the following content:

  [code]
  name=Visual Studio Code
  baseurl=https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/vscode
  enabled=1
  gpgcheck=1
  gpgkey=https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc
  

  You need root permissions to create file in this location.

  After creating the repo file you can install the Visual Studio Code with:

  $ sudo dnf install code
  

• distributed as a Flatpak

  $ flatpak install com.visualstudio.code
  

After installing Visual Studio Code, to get full features of the editor, install the C# Extension from the Visual Studio Marketplace.

VSCodium

VSCodium are Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VSCode.

Installing MonoDevelop

$ sudo dnf install monodevelop

Installing Eclipse

First install Eclipse through Flatpak

$ flatpak install org.eclipse.Java

then install the aCute extension from the Eclipse Marketplace

References

• Installing VSCode as an RPM

Authors: Jarek Prokop, Jaroslav Prokop, Pavel Valena, Radka Janek, Tom Deseyn