Total Survey Responses: 889

How often do you use the MonoDevelop IDE?

Select one:

Very often, It is my main IDE	156	17,55%
I use it in some projects	269	30,26%
Very sporadic use	211	23,73%
I don't use it, but I plan to use it in the future	220	24,75%
I haven't used it in any project	27	3,04%

Which kind of projects do you plan to build with MonoDevelop?

Select all that apply:

GTK# desktop application	591	66,48%
Windows Forms desktop application	434	48,82%
Other desktop application	150	16,87%
ASP.NET web project	362	40,72%
Command line application	420	47,24%
Server or daemon	265	29,81%

Other responses:

• 3D apps and games (10)
• Libraries (6)
• Moonlight/Silverlight (5)
• WPF (3).

Which languages languages do you plan use with MonoDevelop?

Select all that apply:

C#	849	95,50%
Visual Basic .NET	102	11,47%
Boo	96	10,80%
Nemerle	24	2,70%
Java	67	7,54%
Python	128	14,40%
Ruby	74	8,32%
C/C++	204	22,95%

Other responses:

• PHP (7)
• Chrome (6)
• F# (5)
• D (3)

Which .NET runtime version will be required to run the projects you plan to work on?

Select all that apply:

.NET 1.1	170	19,12%
.NET 2.0	790	88,86%
.NET 3.0	333	37,46%
.NET 3.5	295	33,18%
Silverlight	216	24,30%

Other responses:

• Maemo (3)
• PDA (2)
• Symbian (1)
• Wii (1)

Select the target platform for the applications you are going to develop

Select all that apply:

Linux	862	96,96%
Mac OS X	185	20,81%
Microsoft Windows	671	75,48%
Sun Solaris	50	5,62%
BSD	67	7,54%

On which desktop environment are you running MonoDevelop?

Select one:

GNOME 2.8 or older	16	1,80%
GNOME 2.10	6	0,67%
GNOME 2.12	6	0,67%
GNOME 2.14	4	0,45%
GNOME 2.16	20	2,25%
GNOME 2.18	45	5,06%
GNOME 2.20	458	51,52%
GNOME (don't know the version)	82	9,22%
KDE 3.4 or older	2	0,22%
KDE 3.5	7	0,79%
KDE 3.5.1 – 3.5.3	2	0,22%
KDE 3.5.4 - 3.5.6	10	1,12%
KDE 3.5.7 or newer	98	11,02%
KDE (don't know the version)	10	1,12%
Other	53	5,96%

Other responses:

• Xfce (17)
• Mac OS X (9)
• Fluxbox (4)
• Elightenment (2)
• Ion (2)

Do you have problems using MonoDevelop? Tell us what are the main issues you are suffering

Select all that apply:

Stability problems	435	48,93%
Performance problems	140	15,75%
Excessive memory use	126	14,17%
Installation problems	120	13,50%
Lack of documentation	176	19,80%

Other responses:

• Lack of debugger (54)
• Missing features (in general) (20)
• Bugs (13)
• Usability (10)
• Lack of Windows Forms designer (7)
• Lack of refactoring operations (6)
• Crashes (6)
• Lack of editor features (5)
• Not properly supported in my ystem/distro (5)
• Lack of better ASP.NET support (3)
• Problems with getting dependencies (3)

Are you interested in developing add-ins for MonoDevelop?

Select one:

Yes	289	32,51%
No	189	21,26%
N/A	411	46,23%

Which features you think are the MOST important for MonoDevelop to have or improve?

Responders had to specify a ranking of the most preferred features. The first column is the number of times the feature was included in the ranking, then the % of the same value. The last column is a weighed value of the feature, taking into account the position in the ranking (if the feature was selected as #1, it had a value of 1, in #2 a value of 0.9, #3 a value of 0.81, #4 0.73, #5 0.66, #6 0.59, and so on).

Tools: Debugger	736	82,79%	610,54
Visual Designers: GTK# visual designer	577	64,90%	378,89
Source Code Editing: Better support for intellisense	581	65,35%	359,55
Visual Designers: Windows Forms designer	547	61,53%	356,85
Source Code Editing: Source code refactoring tools	574	64,57%	345,46
Source Code Editing: Editor improvements (code folding, buffer splitting...)	562	63,22%	322,02
Visual Designers: ASP.NET Forms designer	488	54,89%	277,43
Tools: Package generation (installers, tarballs, RPMs, DEBs, etc)	496	55,79%	245,9
Visual Designers: Class diagram / UML modelling	480	53,99%	241,57
Project Import/Export: Improve support for Visual Studio projects	468	52,64%	236,68
Tools: Profiling tools	477	53,66%	232,14
Tools: Database management	464	52,19%	216,68
Tools: Code analysis tools (e.g. Gendarme)	447	50,28%	198,12
Porting MonoDevelop: Support the MonoDevelop IDE on Windows	449	50,51%	181,83
Tools: Documentation tools	414	46,57%	165,13
Tools: Internationalization tools	410	46,12%	160,38
Documentation: about the Mono platform and libraries	402	45,22%	152,77
Project Import/Export: Improve support for Makefile generation/integration	403	45,33%	151,33
Documentation: about how to extend MonoDevelop (add-in development)	376	42,29%	106,59
Documentation: about how to use MonoDevelop	356	40,04%	105,25
Community: Team work tools (task lists, bug reporting, calendars, etc.)	366	41,17%	104,65
Community: Tools for locating, downloading and sharing components and widgets	348	39,15%	96,24
Version Control Integration: Git	334	37,57%	90,16
Porting MonoDevelop: Support the MonoDevelop IDE on Mac OSX	329	37,01%	84,59
Customization of MonoDevelop: Customization of the IDE menus and toolbars	336	37,80%	83,7
Customization of MonoDevelop: Automation of the IDE with scripting (macros).	317	35,66%	67,04
Version Control Integration: Bazaar	296	33,30%	65,72
Version Control Integration: Mercurial	287	32,28%	48,53