#develop Fidalgo RC1

1) What's New

SharpDevelop Fidalgo (1.0) has now entered Release Candidate status with this RC1 release. As with Beta 1, no features have been added, only two existing ones have been improved to be more useful:

* Entire project conversion VB.NET to C# and vice versa
* Project import now works for ASP.NET projects

Other than that, we have worked on two major areas (and will continue to work on):

* Bug fixes (details see Subversion change log)
* Performance improvements (details see Subversion change log)

Also of note is the following:

* New setup: OS restrictions are enforced (Windows 2000+)

Please see the section Where to report bugs on how to report bugs any exceptions are considered showstoppers for future releases, so if you happen to trip on one, please try to be as specific as possible in your error report it will help us tremendously to fix bugs as quickly as possible!

2) Where to Download

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

IMPORTANT NOTE: you MUST manually remove the existing .icsharpcode folder before installing or starting Fidalgo RC1. The aforementioned folder can be found at the following location: C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data

3) Access to the Latest Code

If you want, you can download the most current source code from our repository. A HOWTO is available in our Wiki:

http://www.icsharpcode.net/heyhey/wiki/ow.asp?UsingTheRepository

It also contains links to our commit hook mailing list, as well as the mailing list where users of the Subversion codebase should report bugs to. Note that reporting bugs on released versions is discussed in the next bullet.

4) Where to Report Bugs

We do have an automatic error reporting dialog when #develop crashes with an unhandled exception. It will automatically take you to

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

where you can paste the error information. On non-exception bugs, go to the above location and provide us with .NET and OS version information.

In both cases, please do not forget to provide us with step by step instructions to reproduce the bug.

The forum is intended for reporting bugs, the team is tracking the bugs via our own bug tracker, which can be viewed (read-only) at the following URL:

http://bugtracker.sharpdevelop.net

Thank you for helping make #develop a more functional and stable product!

The #develop Team