Survey Results 2007

How often do you use the MonoDevelop IDE?

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Which kind of projects do you plan to build with MonoDevelop?

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Other responses:

• 3D apps and games (10)
• Libraries (6)
• Moonlight/Silverlight (5)
• WPF (3).

Which languages languages do you plan use with MonoDevelop?

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Other responses:

• PHP (7)
• Chrome (6)
• F# (5)
• D (3)

Which .NET runtime version will be required to run the projects you plan to work on?

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Other responses:

• Maemo (3)
• PDA (2)
• Symbian (1)
• Wii (1)

Select the target platform for the applications you are going to develop:

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On which desktop environment are you running MonoDevelop?

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Other responses:

• Xfce (17)
• Mac OS X (9)
• Fluxbox (4)
• Elightenment (2)
• Ion (2)

Do you have problems using MonoDevelop? Tell us what are the main issues you are suffering

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Other responses:

• Lack of debugger (54)
• Missing features (in general) (20)
• Bugs (13)
• Usability (10)
• Lack of Windows Forms designer (7)
• Lack of refactoring operations (6)
• Crashes (6)
• Lack of editor features (5)
• Not properly supported in my ystem/distro (5)
• Lack of better ASP.NET support (3)
• Problems with getting dependencies (3)

Are you interested in developing add-ins for MonoDevelop?

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Which features you think are the MOST important for MonoDevelop to have or improve?

Responders had to specify a ranking of the most preferred features. The first column is the number of times the feature was included in the ranking, then the % of the same value. The last column is a weighed value of the feature, taking into account the position in the ranking (if the feature was selected as #1, it had a value of 1, in #2 a value of 0.9, #3 a value of 0.81, #4 0.73, #5 0.66, #6 0.59, and so on).