I had thought about an extension to the VS IDE but that requires people downloading Visual Studio or the Express edition (not even sure if the express edition would come with JScript etc)
Actually did a bit of research there as well, it's something i may look into ( i have used the custom project extensions before) so that could be applied to plsc files. The one thing driving me towards using Visual Studio (Web Express) is the built in intellisense for JScript which is hard to implement myself.
Main concerns about using Visual Studio are:
- Opening a directory as a project for installed scripts
- The large size of Express Editions and the hastle for everyone
- Integrating a custom designer for the XML files (never seen this done with an extension to VS. Feel free to point me to one)!
One thing i suppose is that if i had a Visual Studio extension built to begin with i could take my time to develop my own IDE more afterwards
*update 2
upon digging deep into creating VS extensions i can safely say it is more work than updating and completing my own IDE which is a big shame because i love VS's interface
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