#develop .94 released Vastly improved developer experience

1) What's New in #develop .94
2) Changes
3) Where to Download
4) Where to Report Bugs
5) SharpDevelop the Book
6) Mono Porting of SharpDevelop

1) What's New in #develop .94

The year 2003 starts with a feature-loaded new version of SharpDevelop, the open-source IDE for .NET. For starters, the forms designer[1] has been reworked and now supports events and custom controls. New kids on the block are the Ctrl+W (Code AutoInsert[2]) and Ctrl+Q (XML Quick Doc[3]) features (in general, we recommend that you take the Feature Tour[4]!). There are also news on the help front: we are proud to announce to be able to integrate the .NET Framework SDK help and DirectX 9 (if installed) help into the Help Scout. In an attempt to kick-start Mono porting[5], the SharpDevelop core has been split out into a separate assembly.

In other news, the SharpDevelop team brings you the book Dissecting a C# Application: Inside SharpDevelop[6]. This books helps you and us: you learn about SharpDevelop - we get financial support for our project.

[1] http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/Tour/094/FormsDesigner.aspx
[2] http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/Tour/094/CodeAutoInsert.aspx
[3] http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/Tour/094/XmlDocumentation.aspx
[4] http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/Tour/094/Default.aspx
[5] see section 6, Mono Porting of SharpDevelop
[6] see section 5, SharpDevelop the Book

2) Changes

* Added Code AutoInsert feature (Ctrl+W)
* Events can be added via the forms designer
* .NET Framework SDK help can be integrated (Markus Palme)
* Custom controls option for the #develop forms designer (Denis Erchoff)
* Added Xml Documentation preview feature (Ctrl+Q)
* Included initial version of a VS.NET solution importer
* The #develop core has been split out into a separate assembly
* Basic HTML Editor implemented
* #Refactory and #ZipLib included in the #develop project
* Updates to #Unit
* Project templates expanded to support creating of full-featured combines
* New Start Page has been added
* Added Projects and Combines option panel
* Expanded the toolbar with new icons and design

3) Where to Download

http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/download/

4) Where to Report Bugs

http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/BugReporting.aspx

5) SharpDevelop the Book

The SharpDevelop team brings you the book Dissecting a C# Application: Inside SharpDevelop. This books helps you and us: you learn about SharpDevelop - we get financial support for our project. We would like to thank Wrox Press for allowing us to publish a few chapter online in PDF format, you can find those on the following page together with more information about the book:

http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/InsideSharpDevelop.aspx

6) Mono Porting of SharpDevelop

Now that #develop is nearing version 1.0, we decided that it is time to start a formal discussion of the effort to port #develop over to Linux. To this end, we set up a mailing list with the support of the friendly people at the Mono project. If you are interested in actively working on the port, feel free to join the list:

http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/sd-mono-port

The starting point is that we first of all need to port the core and get it running under Linux. When you look at the sources of #develop 0.94, you will see that we took steps towards a full modularization of the project to facilitate the porting effort (and make things more maintainable). So if you are interested in an IDE working across platforms, sign up!

The #develop Team