Making an IDE

[levyuk]

[RESOLVED] Making an IDE

Guys/girls does anybody know where to start if you were going to make an IDE. I want to try and make a HTML editor with the ability to drag parts from a menu, just like in Visual studio. Does anybody know where to start on this?

Thanks

 

[jmcilhinney]

It's just an app using form's like any other. You would need to use a RichTextBox for the document, and there is plenty of drag-and-drop support built into .NET. It's too big a question to answer simply though. You need to do some reading on drag-and-drop I think. You'll also need to develop a grammar if you want to provide syntax highlighting.