SharpDevelop (aka #develop) 3.0 RTM’s

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

SharpDevelop (aka #develop) 3.0 RTM’s

SharpDevelop Community - SharpDevelop 3.0 Final

“Eigthteen months after the last SharpDevelop 2.x release, we are proud to announce the availability of SharpDevelop 3.0 Final! Without further ado, we’d like to point you to the features you will find in SharpDevelop 3.0:

Feature List

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Downloads
SharpDevelop 3.0 Final:http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/Download/#SharpDevelop30

Please note that to take full advantage of SharpDevelop 3.0 features, you must install the following software too:

FxCop (Code Analysis)

Microsoft StyleCop

TortoiseSVN (Source Control)

F# (September 2008 CTP)

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#develop - You get...

“Supported Programming Languages

C# (Code Completion, Windows Forms Designer)

VB.NET (Code Completion, Windows Forms Designer)

Boo (Code Completion, Windows Forms Designer)

IronPython

F#

Developer Productivity

Refactoring

Parallel build support for multi-core machines

Multi-framework targetting (.NET 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5)

Code Autoinsert

Starts from a USB memory stick (Link)

Read-only project support

Quality Tools

Integrated Debugger

Code Analysis (FxCop)

Unit Testing (NUnit)

Code Coverage (PartCover)

Integrated Subversion support (TortoiseSVN)

StyleCop addin (Link)

And More...

Setup projects (WiX)

Parser-based code converter (Online Code Converter)

XML "code completion"

Documentation generation (Sandcastle, SHFB)

Reflector addin (Link)

Easy addin extensibility mechanism

SharpDevelop for Applications (SDA) allows you to host SharpDevelop in your applications (Link)

Text editor is rehostable to add a programmer's editor to your applications (including code completion!)

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The Open Source Development Environment for .NET

“#develop (short for SharpDevelop) is a free IDE for C#, VB.NET and Boo projects on Microsoft's .NET platform. It is open-source, and you can download both sourcecode and executables from this site…

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The “other cola”… err… I mean… the “other .Net IDE” gets a major new rev.

#develop is an important project, one that benefits every .Net developer. While we don’t need a million .Net IDE’s we DO need more than just Visual Studio, if nothing else to keep MS on their toes and to provide a viable choice. Choice is good…

(via The #develop teamblog - SharpDevelop 3.0 Final)