Great editor for XML modding

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I'm sure many of you already know this, but for those who don't... the best free program for editing XML files is by far http://notepad-plus-plus.org/.  It has some really great features for editing XML... be sure to download the XML tools plugin for even more features.  It's essentially a free IDE.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Notepad ++ is excellent for XML modding. I don't know what I'd do without it!

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I use Visual studio express (c#), you can easily create xsc and then it saves you a lot of typing thanks to intellisense (maybe notepad has one, but I didn't find how to enable it)

Intellisense is a lot of time saver.

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Quoting vieuxchat, reply 2
I use Visual studio express (c#), you can easily create xsc and then it saves you a lot of typing thanks to intellisense (maybe notepad has one, but I didn't find how to enable it)

Intellisense is a lot of time saver.

Indeed. Express is free as well.

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Quoting Annatar11, reply 3

Quoting vieuxchat, reply 2I use Visual studio express (c#), you can easily create xsc and then it saves you a lot of typing thanks to intellisense (maybe notepad has one, but I didn't find how to enable it)

Intellisense is a lot of time saver.

Indeed. Express is free as well.

Yep, I'm no prgrammer, so I don't need a professionnal programming tool. C# express is more than enough for what I'm creating.

There's also C++ express, Visual basic express, etc. You can choose whatever language you like.

 

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Been using this for the last few days, I really like it so far. Thanks!

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Quoting vieuxchat, reply 2
I use Visual studio express (c#), you can easily create xsc and then it saves you a lot of typing thanks to intellisense (maybe notepad has one, but I didn't find how to enable it)


It's available as a plugin to install. Go to plugins, then plugin manager, and there's a plugin called CCompletion. Install that plugin, and you should be golden. Although I haven't tested it yet :P.

 

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

Notepad++ 5.8.1 release

 

i understand 7z and zip are same thing, saved in dif formats.   Besides the exe, which of these others do i need?

 

Thanks 

 

 

Reply #9 from Elemental Forums Top

BTW, for those of you who have used BOTH Notepad, and visual studio express (c#):

 

WHICH do you find easier to work with?  Notepad, or Visual Studio Express (c#)?  Does someone have a link for Visual...?

Thanks again...

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Quoting ElanaAhova, reply 9
BTW, for those of you who have used BOTH Notepad, and visual studio express (c#):

 

WHICH do you find easier to work with?  Notepad, or Visual Studio Express (c#)?  Does someone have a link for Visual...?

Thanks again...

Notepad++ is faster. Plain Visual Studio (2010) with no extentions is painfully slow at times on my gaming / development setup. You would only need one of those downloads. The EXE is the easiest to get setup. To find Visual Studio just google it. You will want the express (free) version, likely the 2008 edition because it is faster (2010 added unneeded eye candy that causes it to be slower than it should be).