Perl plugin for MS Visual Studio

jfroebe has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi,

I've been asked whether there is a free or inexpensive plugin for Microsoft's Visual Studio that would handle Perl (perl 5.6 or higher). I did a quick google and could only find the $295 Visual Perl from Active State. The reason for the request is that the person develops in VB.net and C#. He would like to keep the same IDE if at all possible.. but not to the point of dishing out $295 out of his own pocket for a plugin. Now, I'm not entirely sure if he is only referring to the GUI IDE part or if he is talking more along the lines of perl.net.

Does anyone know of a plugin for VS that would make it more perl friendly?

Jason L. Froebe

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Re: Perl plugin for MS Visual Studio by bprew (Monk) on Dec 01, 2004 at 23:12 UTC
I have used VS with the trial perl plugin, and I don't know of any free plugins for VS that work for perl, but... I have used Eclipse (www.eclipse.org) previously with EPIC (http://e-p-i-c.sourceforge.net/), the perl plugin. That performs closely to VS with the AS plugin, but since you're using Eclipse, you've got better support for alternative source code control systems (ie CVS, Subversion, etc) and, IMHO, better keybinding capabilities. I myself am an avid emacs user, but that's another religious war altogether. -- Ben "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart."	[reply]
Re: Perl plugin for MS Visual Studio by Anonymous Monk on Dec 02, 2004 at 13:19 UTC
http://open-perl-ide.sourceforge.net/ is close enough to VisualStudio and its free.	[reply]