So....what do I do?

[Brian Beuken]

Ah, yeah, the Linux option from the newer Visual Studio seems to work fine.

My dev from the book has been on Ubuntu to Pi using Eclipse which works fine. It does take some effort to get it set-up though.

Yeah its improved a lot since I first checked it out, and aside from some occasional unexplained (so far) hangs, it is doing everything it has to do rather well. It can be a bit of a pain to set up for multiple boards,and multi configs get very confusing, but most people won't have that issue. So my initial reluctance to reccomend it has been overcome.
You should post more on how you work with Eclipse, the more we remvoe the mystery of the IDE, the more we can get people actually building code.