the core part of the bachelor thesis which I am writing right now is a plugin for a C# IDE that offers a few refactorings (it comes to more than simple refactorings but I want to keep it simple for the moment).
I've always been working with Visual Studio so far. However, I've heard that their AST access is rather uncomfortable. Alternatives are MonoDevelop and SharpDevelop. Another way to work with Visual Studios AST would be to access it via a custom ReSharper Plugin.
Does anyone of you have experience in writing Plugins for any of those target applications? What do you think? I appreciate every advice and disadvice.
Thanks, TH