#develop Fidalgo RC2

1) What's New
2) Translators Wanted
3) Where to Download
4) Access to the Latest Code
5) Where to Report Bugs

1) What's New

In SharpDevelop Fidalgo RC1, we introduced regressions via some of the memory and performance optimizations that we hope to have fixed in RC2, escpecially in the area of code completion. An additional area of improvements is the setup, which is now much smaller, registers file types and GAC assemblies for NUnit. Thanks to your plenty bug reports, we were able to fix a lot of small as well as showstopper bugs. Thus expect improvements in the VB.NET to C# (and vice versa) conversion, Find, code completion and many more areas.

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!

Regarding help wanted please take the time to read the next section.

2) Translators Wanted!

SharpDevelop might not ship in you mother tongue. We are always looking for additional translators (even for languages that are already part of #develop), currently especially looking for: French, Danish, Dutch (those were really, really close to be included)

If you want to help translating any existing or new language (except English and German), please contact Christoph (christophw at alphasierrapapa dot com) and he will set up a translation account for you and everyone will see more languages by time of Release Candidate 3!

Thanks to all of our existing translators for making #develop a true international effort!

3) Where to Download

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

IMPORTANT NOTE: You MUST manually remove the existing .icsharpcode folder before installing or starting #develop (if you had RC1 or older on your machine). The aforementioned folder can be found at the following location: C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data

4) 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://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/default.aspx/SharpDevelop.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.

5) 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