Using CodeRun browser-based IDE to create ASP.NET Web Applications
Today I'm in another town where I didn't get my laptop with me. Anyway, I've found a computer but I have nothing installed on it, in order to run some code snippets. However, I already knew about CodeRun, the web-browser IDE for web applications development that lets you build, run and debug your asp.net applications. Moreover, CodeRun lets you upload or download code files, which makes it easy if you build web application containing many other files, to download the complete application packed in zip.
You can run the CodeRun IDE by simply typing the following url: http://www.coderun.com/ide/
It lets you create any type of ASP.NET project
then, the default files that the IDE generates in the right Code (Solution) explorer are
So, you see that you can easily modify the ASPX and the CS (code-behind).
As I said previously, it contains the main features to download/upload, build, run and debug the code.
The buttons are placed in the top area of the CodeRun IDE
Also, here is print screen with the default generated ASPX code file
CodeRun IDE also contains the Output, Stack and Watch windows in the bottom area of the IDE
So, as you can see, this could be very handy when you want to test some code snippets, but you don't have your whole environment in the machine you are working currently.
Languages / platform features the CodeRun IDE supports
| Language/Platform | Syntax Coloring | Code Completion | Compilation | Server Side Debugging | Hyperlink code sharing | Single Click Deployment |
| C#/ASP.NET | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| C#/WPF | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| C#/Silverlight | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| PHP | Yes | No | N/A | No | Yes | Yes |
| JavaScript | Yes | No | N/A | No | Yes | Yes |
| HTML | Yes | No | N/A | No | Yes | Yes |
| CSS | Yes | No | N/A | No | Yes | Yes |
The CodeRun IDE is very nice, but it still misses the hundred of features that VWD.NET / VS.NET provides to us. If you have noticed already, there is no Toolbox ;). What is also nice, you don't need to be registered in CodeRun website in order to work with the IDE.
So, I recommend using this CodeRun IDE especially if you want to test something on a machine where you don't have VS.NET installed. However, It can be used for development of products, and of course, cannot be compared with the Microsoft Visual Studio.NET IDE tools.
Hope this is an useful info for you.
Kind Regards,
Hajan