#develop Fidalgo RC3

1) What's New

After a summer break, we are back and bring you Release Candidate 3. It contains numerous bug fixes across the board for example in the areas of VB.NET code completion or C# to VB.NET conversion (and vice versa). Newly added is a convenience feature: choose the configuration (Debug vs Release) in the toolbar. Also, lots of updates have happened to the translations thanks to translators!

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). 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.

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