Using Java with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012

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I started as a C   programmer  and Visual studio has worked splendedly for me  However  I recently have wanted to branch out to C  and Java  Visual studio supports C  and I now have some experience with it  but it does not support Java  Does anyone have any tips for me to allow Visual Studio to be used with Java  I was thinking of trying to use the add-in wizard of the Visual Studio SDK to create an extention for Java support  but before I started diving in to something possibly quite complicated  I was wondering if anyone here had attempted this before and might have some advice for me for approaching this problem  After much searching the internet  I found no Java support for visual studio  and the few workarounds I found were quite sub par   To clarify   I want to write an add in for Visual studio 2012 that will allow it to work with Java prgramming  I want when I create a project file to have the option of making a  java file  and when I compile  I want it to compile using the javac compiler  I have it downloaded already    ADDITIONAL DETAILS   I am aware that there are already Java IDEs out there  such as eclipse  I just wanted to know if it was possible to get it working with visual studio  I greatly enjoy visual studio and have been using it for some time now  and I would love to be able to program in all the languages I know using the same interface   Yes  C  is a sort of beefed up Java  but there are some things I may need to do that need Java specifically  so I am going to need a way to write those  I can use eclipse or another IDE  but I would prefer visual studio if possible

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you can use visual studio for java  http   visualstudiogallery msdn microsoft com bc561769-36ff-4a40-9504-e266e8706f93

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Using Visual Studio IDE for porting Java to C    Currently I am using Visual Studio IDE environment for porting codes from Java to C   Why  Java has a huge libraries and C  enables the access to the UWP ecosystem   For supporting editing and debugging as well as examining Java Bytecode  disassembly   you could try     Java Language Support FYI  please read the issues to get an overview of the limitations and bugs   For supporting Android  Java C    development  you could try    Java Language Service for Android and Eclipse Android Project Import  FYI  this blog gets NetBeans and Eclipse IDE java developers excited  -

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Java Language Support extension provides basic features for the Java programming language  Current editing features include    Syntax highlighting and brace matching Outlining support for quickly collapsing classes and functions  Dropdown bars listing classes  enums  interfaces  fields  and methods within the current document   And if you wish to contribute then the project has been moved to its own GitHub repository

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If you want to get started with Java  you will be much happier with a Java IDE  IntelliJ Community Edition  Eclipse  and Netbeans are all free   I know IntelliJ can be set to use Visual Studio keyboard shortcuts  so even if you are a keyboard junkie like myself  you won t feel out of place in a Java IDE   The differences in IDEs are minimal  and the time you will save by using a Java IDE for Java development will be huge   Good luck

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IntegraStudio enables syntax coloring  building  debugging and finding definition and references  F12 and ALT-F12  for Java projects in Visual Studio

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theoretically it could be done by defining a custom build step to the VS project  And you can make a file template to create a new java file  don t know if you could have it throw things in the right package or not  so you may end up writing quite a bit of the stuff a java ide would throw in already  it s not impossible  but from experience  I ve used xcode on mac  vs in windows  eclipse  netbeans  code  blocks  and ended up compiling from command line for both java and c   a lot  it s easier just to learn the new ide   if you are insistent  i found this  http   improve dk compiling-java-in-visual-studio   i plan on following and trying to modify it to create a general template for java  if possible  meaning if i understand enough of what im doing  im goint to implement a custom wizard for java projects and files

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Java doesn t support the Net Framework  Java has its own Framework  Visual Studio used to support at one time J   and J   which were meant for Java developers who wanted to develop with the  Net  but since that has become extinct   Most people when they want to develop java  they just go ahead and start with Netbeans  Eclipse  or something equivalent  They don t go around asking on sites like this if they could develop Java stuff in Visual Studio   In my honest opinion  Java would not do very well in Visual Studio  Oracle and Microsoft are two separate entities and they need to remain that way  The only mix of Oracle and Microsoft I want to see is Java for Windows and Java development tools for Windows  I do not want to see Java in Visual Studio  It would get too confusing with C  lingering around the corner

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If you re proficient in C  and Visual Studio  you might try IKVM   It s not exactly what you were asking for  but will certainly help with bridging the gap by allowing you to call into Java libraries from C  and vise versa   You can use it in Visual Studio  but it also has first class support in MonoDevelop

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There is a visual studio plugin to support the java language  http   visualstudiogallery msdn microsoft com bc561769-36ff-4a40-9504-e266e8706f93

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