Hello! I don't use ASM very much, mostly becuase I don't know it very well. But a friend of mine uses it a lot, so I figured I would help him and the FASM community by developing a new IDE for FASM.

Since I don't know FASM very well, I am writing this in Visual Basic .NET 2005. *Hears BOOs*. I find it an easy program to use when developing a large project like this.

Anyway, here are the features so far:

Tabbed Multiple Document Interface
XML Project Format
Slick icons
Options dialog
Syntax highlighting
Dockable panels
Project Explorer
Compiler Output panel
Integrated web browser
Welcome page w/Forum RSS feed (i have contact the forum admin about adding a mod for the forum that would make this feature functional)

The screenshot that I have attached shows the code editor window, the project explorer (on the left), the small compile output window button (it's collapsed at the moment), and the web browser which is opened to the FASM forum website.

The web browser is very useful. Using the dockable panels feature, you can drag the browser window to almost anywhere in the program. You can even make it collapse into a small button for later use. It provides a very easy way to read and use code snippets directly from the forums, without switching between windows on the taskbar.

I don't have a download link at the moment. This is more of an announcement. The program isn't fully functional yet, but I figured it was far enough along that I could show you what it all looks like.

For me personally it's not so important the implementation tool. If it looks good and it works well then I'll be happy to use it and im sure the same will go for a lot of people.

I have just heard a lot of people (not here) say that VB.NET sucks. But I personally love it. Anyway, here's a rundown of new features:

Collapsable ToDo list
Unlimited Web Browser windows
Navigation toolbar in Web Browsers
Integrated Music Player (by request of my friend)
A Recent Projects list on the welcome page
Code Snippet manager
and some more settings in the options dialog

Some of those are functioning very well at the moment. I have to find a better way to play music and the code snippet manager doesn't save anything very well. But, the web browser features are fully functional. I'm having some problems with the project file format. XML isn't working for me at the moment, so I'm going to find a different method of storing settings and file paths.

Do you have picture of it with some file open with syntax highlighting?

The synatx definition isn't quite finished yet, but I'll see what I can do.

EDIT: Here you go. I attached the new screenshot. Like I said above, I'm no good with ASM. So I just used some random things to show off the colors and such. The styles WILL change. This is a very early version of the definitions. Also, in the new screen, you can see the little checkmark icon next to the Compiler Output panel. That's the ToDo panel. There's also a Web Browser button on the toolbar now.

LOL same reason many people are anti-microsoft.They think its cool

@DataHunter2009: which editor component dou use?

Tommy: I use the editor component from SharpDevelop. It was the only good (and free) one that I could find. It's released under the GPL.

Some new updates:
I'm reworking the project system. I finally got XML to work correctly (almost). Also, thanks to a very extensive Kate syntax definition by Bogdan, FASM Studio now has a complete FASM syntax highlighter. I also updated some of the coloring.

While you are at it, make it freely adjustable, even from .ini would do it.

I was going to, but I'm not familiar with XML, so I'm not exactly sure how to load values into a XML file from an ini. The syntax highlighter loads everything from a xshd file (XML Syntax Highlighter Defintion). You can edit the colors from within the file directly, but I would rather have it as an option in the Editor Options dialog. This project manager is very frustrating, also. I can't find a good way to organize folders and files. I think I'm going to have to get an XML expert to come in and do some of that.

Looks good. Are coding it in SharpDevelop? (I was thinking about trying this IDE)

I'm using Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition. If you want to get into .NET programming, you should really download it. It's completely free now.

By the way, I had to remove the project manager. It was getting way to complex and produced too many errors. Maybe I'll put it back in a future version.

Unfortunately, I need SP2 to be able to use the Express Edition. My WinXP is SP1.
It looks pretty good, because I can download Platform SDK and develop for Win32API with C++ also.
The short path to get into .NET is Sharp Develop (Installed and tested it here. Works great and can even import VS.NET solutions)
But I'll try to install SP2, and get the Express Edition.

I installed SP2!!
Now I can use the Express editions!
I'll download Visual C++ Express and Platform SDK, looks really good! I want to see what Micro$oft is offering for free!

I'll now install Visual C++ Express and the platform SDK to code in pure Win32API and C++!

DataHunter2009: Is VB Express complete? Does it can do Win32 programs or just .NET?

VB Express is only for .NET. But I never found that to be a big problem.

When creating a .NET application, what files do you need to include in the package you distribute?
And how you make sure that the person has the framework?

...without resource editor

Not such a big problem, there's.

http://www.radasm.com/projects/ResEd.zip

PellesC toolset includes an IDE with a very nice resource editor. For C coding I would prefer pellesc to visual c++. I like the visual c++ IDE but i don't like that it's coded in .net which makes it so slow it's a pain to use sometimes.

I'm sorry, but it seems like we are all getting off topic here.

OzzY: You only need to include the EXE file that was created in your Release folder. To check if someone has the correct framework version, you need to create an installer with this functionality.

Anyway, I'm working on a Beta release of FASM Studio. It should be done by Thursday at the latest. Also, I'm planning on adding a plugin framework. It would be much easier than just hardcoding a new "plugin" (such as the media player) in a new release.

Your project looks really nice!
Keep up the good work and let us know about the progress!

Feature sugestion: You can download SharpDevelop and import your VS 2005 project, and from there you can target both .NET and Mono. Targeting Mono you can make your IDE available for Linux!

Just for curiosity: Where do you get nice icons to use in the application? I allways missed a good place to download cool icons to use in my projects...