Big news today for cross-platform developers: Microsoft has open-sourced .NET. This is a major event…and great news for RhinoCommon plugin developers. Read more about it from Miguel de Icaza, Scott Hanselman, and from Microsoft itself.
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Also, the community edition of Visual Studio 2015 (functionally equivalent to the Pro version) will be free for single developers and small organisations.
Guys - will you support this IDE with Rhino (5/6)?
My guess is that is will probably ‘just work’ for .NET development. People are developing .NET plug-ins/components right now using the express edition.
As far as C++ development, we’ll only be able to tell once they’ve actually released this version. You will definitely not be able to develop for C++ projects on Rhino 5 since Rhino 5 is tied to MFC in VS2010. Rhino 6 will be built using VS2015 Pro once it is released, so this may be a possibility. We’ll just have to wait and see what “functionally equivalent” really means.
That’s a big, big, change!
And better for Rhino!
Very good to know.