SharpDevelop2 Beta 2 Available

1) Release Information

SharpDevelop2 has reached feature-freeze, which means that no new feature areas will be added – the feature set is locked down for release. The main focus now is on fixing issues, and this is where the team once again asks for your help – please report bugs, unexpected behavior, et cetera. To make our testers' lives easier, do include a step list on how to reproduce the problem as well as expected vs experienced behavior – that way, the bugs can be entered faster into our bug tracking system, which is world-accessible at the following URL:

http://bugtracker.sharpdevelop.net/ Project: Corsavy (SD2)

Check there first to see if the issue has already been reported, if not, please go to

http://community.sharpdevelop.net/forums/23/ShowForum.aspx

This forum is the main forum during the betas of SharpDevelop2.

2) What's New in Beta 2

Quite a lot of activity was recorded in the change log from Beta 1 to Beta 2. To pick out some highlights:

* SharpReport ported (including SharpQuery)
* Code Coverage support based on NCover
* PInvoke addin ported
* Support for Web references
* Right-to-left support
* Support for Mono's GAC, Gtk# and Glade# project templates
* Setup ngen's executables for better performance
* HtmlHelp preferences stored

Be sure to check out the developer blogs for more interesting information:

http://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/default.aspx
http://laputa.sharpdevelop.net/

3) Downloads

SharpDevelop2 Beta 2:

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

Daily builds of SharpDevelop2 (potentially broken):

<http://build.sharpdevelop.net/>

4) Support

Our primary means of support is via our Web-based forum (please do not email team members directly unless they advise you to do so in the forum):

<http://community.sharpdevelop.net/forums/>

There is also a dedicated forum for SharpDevelop2:

<http://community.sharpdevelop.net/forums/23/ShowForum.aspx>