# Vs 2005

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vs-2005/82665>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 30, 2005, 12:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vs-2005/82665 "2005-12-30T12:07:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![anonymouz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@anonymouz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anonymouz)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 12:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vs-2005/82665/1 "2005-12-30T12:07:19Z")

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Will Visual Studio 2005 work with Ruby, or does it not have plugins for  
the syntax?

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**Author:** ![anonymouz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@anonymouz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anonymouz)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 2:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vs-2005/82665/2 "2005-12-30T14:37:12Z")

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On 30/12/05, Gary A. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Will Visual Studio 2005 work with Ruby, or does it not have plugins for  
> the syntax?

You can edit Ruby files with any version of Visual Studio, but it  
doesn’t understand Ruby’s syntax. Probably won’t ever, but I have been  
surprised by Redmond before. Even if it does, it won’t really know how  
to “run” Ruby programs and certainly won’t have the debugging  
features. I don’t recommend VS for working with Ruby.

-austin

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**Author:** ![anonymouz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@anonymouz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anonymouz)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 7:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vs-2005/82665/3 "2005-12-30T19:40:19Z")

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Gary A. wrote:

> Will Visual Studio 2005 work with Ruby, or does it not have plugins for  
> the syntax?

I’m considering writing a VS2005 add-in that will let me write Ruby code  
with syntax highlighting, and let me run an .rb file with output going  
to a console window.

I haven’t had enough time with VS2005 to find out how feasible this is  
going to be. In VS2003 it would have been a major pain. I’m hoping  
they’ve made the text editor more reusable and that there’s some way to  
override, say, the class view, but I’m not holding my breath.

What I really want is a way to embed just the text-editor window from VS  
into my own app, because the text editing stuff is very good, but I  
don’t really want the rest of Visual Studio. So far I can’t figure out  
how to do that. (I’ve tried the Scite .Net control but it was buggy and  
I never got it to work correctly.)

If there’s actually anyone else who would be interested in using such an  
add-in for VS2005, let me know so that I can let you know if/when I get  
it finished.

Jeff

> **[Hey Daddio!](http://www.softiesonrails.com)**
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> Home of Hey Daddio Software

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**Author:** ![anonymouz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@anonymouz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/anonymouz)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 8:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vs-2005/82665/4 "2005-12-30T20:17:32Z")

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