DISCOVER THE POWER OF ALTERNET STUDIO FOR .NET DEVELOPERS
As software engineers, we use powerful integrated development environments like Visual Studio, Eclipse, XCode, and alike daily to develop software applications, from in-house tools to complex software packages.
Some well-known software packages, like Microsoft Office, Solid Works, Adobe Photoshop, and alike, provide the Software Development Kit (SDK), so developers or power users can program custom logic for these platforms. It could be simple macros in Microsoft Office that capture repetitive tasks in VBA scripts and replay them when needed or full-featured Adobe Photoshop graphic filters.
Regardless of how these SDKs are implemented, the underlying idea is the same: internal application APIs are made available to the writer of user-defined plugins or scenarios, along with a set of programming tools that allow these APIs to be utilized.
While some software packages require a complete software development platform, such as Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code, others come with their own tools, like Visual Basic for Applications for writing macros in Microsoft Office Word or Excel.
AlterNET Studio was created to provide .NET developers with access to the powerful tools of integrated development environments within their .NET applications while also providing SDK capabilities to users. AlterNET Studio consists of the following main components:
Scripter allows integrating C#, Visual Basic, Python, IronPython, and TypeScript/JavaScript scripting in your .NET applications and tools for debugging these scripts;
Code Editor supports all the features needed for efficient code editing, such as syntax highlighting, code completion, code folding, bookmarking, etc., and is specifically designed for C#, Visual Basic, TypeScript, JavaScript, and Python text editing.
Form Designer enables the creation of custom graphical interfaces that can hook up to the user-defined code.
With the introduction of AlterNET UI cross-platform UI Framework, AlterNET Studio will be made available on macOS and Linux.
In summary, AlterNET Studio is not an alternative to Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, or any other integrated development platform. Instead, it's designed to bring some of the software development environment tools into your own software applications. If you're a .NET developer looking to extend your applications with comprehensive development tools, AlterNET Studio is an excellent choice.
