With the latest Appeon product announcement ... "We would like to inform you that SnapDevelop is no longer under active development. It will remain available as a free download at https://file.appeon.com/download/devmagic/SnapDevelopEN-25.0.0.1560-Offline.zip in its current state until at least March 2027. No new features, enhancements, or future versions are planned", you might be wondering how to transparently support C# development in concert with your PB projects
With PowerBuilder 2025 product you might be using either the PowerServer and/or .NET DataStore projects. The logical step forward for the long term would be to use another IDE (e.g. like Microsoft's Visual Studio as one example). If you are using PB 2022 R3 or PB 2025, you can also use another .NET IDE right now for your existing PowerServer or .NET DataStore project types!
In this article, I would like to show you how easy it is to seamlessly move over to using Visual Studio from SnapDevelop. I have already reconfigured my PB 2025 GA and R2 versions to use the Visual Studio IDE and I would like to share with you how I did that. Currently, the PB IDE and the PowerServer / .NET DataStore projects will display the SnapDevelop C# interface in the PB IDE, as follows: