TextPad and C#/.NET

[shaqmeister]

Can I ask, are many people here using TextPad to write programs in C#? I'm currently exploring the language (coming from a background in C/C++, Java, etc.) and am experimenting with setting up tools to work with MSBuild rather than Csc, which effectively means working with Visual Studio .csproj files. It's early days, but I'm beginning to look at creating tools to generate projects that can be worked with in TextPad, but which will also then be available to directly use in Visual Studio (including the free Express edition). I suppose I'm just wanting to check out what the interest is in C# in this forum, and whether such tools might be useful.

I'm currently able to create and work with Studio projects in TextPad, using clip libraries to create and edit the various project files. I can then build these using a tool set up with ...

Command: C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\MSBuild.exe (on my machine)
Parameters: $BaseName.csproj
Inital Folder: $FileDir

... and can even link projects using the schema of the .csproj file, and add StyleCop (http://blogs.msdn.com/sourceanalysis/pa ... ation.aspx, a great tool!) integration, and things like that. At the moment I'm testing a library for parsing the project files which could then be used to generate new projects and modify existing ones. (I would then need to think about a GUI for all this.)

Anyway, I guess my question is ... what's anybody else doing with TextPad and C#/.NET?