• Jason Jeffory (4/4) Dec 31 2015 How can I open a dub generated project in VS with VD? Is there
• ZombineDev (8/12) Dec 31 2015 The Dub support in VisualD actually works backwards - you need to
• Jason Jeffory (4/16) Jan 01 2016 Cool! But once the project is created, what maintains the
• ZombineDev (16/35) Jan 01 2016 Dub is the only source of truth, so yes, you will need to
• Jason Jeffory (4/12) Jan 01 2016 What is your opinion between VS/VD and MonoD? I used MonoD a

Jason Jeffory <JasonJeffory doodle.com> writes:

How can I open a dub generated project in VS with VD?  Is there 
any support or do I have to create a side project and manage it 
separately, more or less? If so, it would be really cool if VD 
could understand dub projects!

ZombineDev <valid_email he.re> writes:

On Thursday, 31 December 2015 at 23:46:21 UTC, Jason Jeffory 
wrote:
 How can I open a dub generated project in VS with VD?  Is there 
 any support or do I have to create a side project and manage it 
 separately, more or less? If so, it would be really cool if VD 
 could understand dub projects!

The Dub support in VisualD actually works backwards - you need to 
use Dub to get VisualD project files:

cd my_project
dub generate visuald

The above command will produce a my_project.sln file that you can 
now open in Visual Studio.

Jason Jeffory <JasonJeffory doodle.com> writes:

On Friday, 1 January 2016 at 02:46:55 UTC, ZombineDev wrote:
 On Thursday, 31 December 2015 at 23:46:21 UTC, Jason Jeffory 
 wrote:
 How can I open a dub generated project in VS with VD?  Is 
 there any support or do I have to create a side project and 
 manage it separately, more or less? If so, it would be really 
 cool if VD could understand dub projects!

 The Dub support in VisualD actually works backwards - you need 
 to use Dub to get VisualD project files:

 cd my_project
 dub generate visuald

 The above command will produce a my_project.sln file that you 
 can now open in Visual Studio.

Cool! But once the project is created, what maintains the 
progress? If you add files through dub(a dependency), do you have 
to regenerate the project again?

ZombineDev <valid_email he.re> writes:

On Saturday, 2 January 2016 at 01:39:32 UTC, Jason Jeffory wrote:
 On Friday, 1 January 2016 at 02:46:55 UTC, ZombineDev wrote:
 On Thursday, 31 December 2015 at 23:46:21 UTC, Jason Jeffory 
 wrote:
 How can I open a dub generated project in VS with VD?  Is 
 there any support or do I have to create a side project and 
 manage it separately, more or less? If so, it would be really 
 cool if VD could understand dub projects!

 The Dub support in VisualD actually works backwards - you need 
 to use Dub to get VisualD project files:

 cd my_project
 dub generate visuald

 The above command will produce a my_project.sln file that you 
 can now open in Visual Studio.

 Cool! But once the project is created, what maintains the 
 progress? If you add files through dub(a dependency), do you 
 have to regenerate the project again?

Dub is the only source of truth, so yes, you will need to 
regenerate the project files if you add/remove/modify a 
dependency. However, if you are only adding/removing/modifying a 
file in your project, it may work fine.

Because this easily becomes tedious, I mainly use the D language 
binding (called Mono-D) for Xamarin Studio/MonoDevelop for 
development (on Windows and Linux) and debugging (only on Linux). 
I use VisualD only for debugging on Windows (i.e. relatively 
rare).
Mono-D has really good support for Dub - it natively underdtands 
dub.json files (so there's no need to use dub generate to create 
project files) and automatically updates it self if you change 
dub.json through the editor. The autocompletion mostly works well 
enough and the integration between dub and the solution explorer 
makes it very pleasant to use.

Jason Jeffory <JasonJeffory doodle.com> writes:

On Saturday, 2 January 2016 at 04:36:48 UTC, ZombineDev wrote:
 On Saturday, 2 January 2016 at 01:39:32 UTC, Jason Jeffory 
 wrote:
 [...]

 Dub is the only source of truth, so yes, you will need to 
 regenerate the project files if you add/remove/modify a 
 dependency. However, if you are only adding/removing/modifying 
 a file in your project, it may work fine.

 [...]

What is your opinion between VS/VD and MonoD? I used MonoD a 
little but it seemed a bit whimpy compared to VS... but it could 
be that I'm just used to VS.