SharpDevelop2 2.1 Beta 2

1) Release Information

Welcome to the second beta for version 2.1 of SharpDevelop. Thanks to our annual #d^3 (#develop developer days) meeting, this release contains a lot of cleanup, bug fixes and forward-looking changes. For example, you as a developer can now reuse our visual components that live in the widgets assembly, or take advantage of the code completion feature that is now available in the standalone text editor component too.

With respect to “Which components can I reuse in my application?” please see our SharpDevelop presentation (PDF download available) hosted on our team blog:

http://laputa.sharpdevelop.net/SharpDevelopPresentation.aspx

In general, we advise you to subscribe the team and contributor blogs to receive news and updates early:

http://laputa.sharpdevelop.net/SyndicationService.asmx/GetRss
http://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/MainFeed.aspx

As usual, please report bugs in our Beta forum:

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

Known bugs are listed in our publicly accessible bug tracker:

http://bugtracker.sharpdevelop.net/Issues.aspx?pi=4&m=1

2) Features

Section 3 of the Beta 1 announcement contains the Beta 1 feature list:

http://community.sharpdevelop.net/forums/thread/11710.aspx

New in this Beta 2 release are:

* Resource Toolkit http://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/christianhornung/archive/2006/10/04/ResourceToolkit-addin.aspx
* Code completion for rehosted text editor control http://laputa.sharpdevelop.net/CompletionDemo.aspx
* SharpReport Standalone http://laputa.sharpdevelop.net/SharpReportStandalone.aspx

3) Downloads

SharpDevelop2 2.1 Beta 2 is available on our Downloads page:

http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/Download/#SharpDevelop221

Please note that to take full advantage of SharpDevelop2 2.1 features, you must install the following software too (otherwise, code analysis and code coverage support will be disabled):

NCover: http://ncover.org/site/
FxCop: http://www.gotdotnet.com/Team/FxCop/
TortoiseSVN: http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/

Daily builds of SharpDevelop2 2.1 are available on our build server at

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/