SharpDevelop 2.2 Release Announcement

1) Release Information

SharpDevelop 2.2 is a bug fix release. It is fully compatible with 2.1, which means that all addins built against v2.1 will continue to work unmodified in 2.2. Please note that setup overwrites existing 2.1 installations, however, will preserve users settings from the old installation.

To highlight a few important changes:

* Additional and improved templates
* Boo support updated to version 0.7.8
* NUnit support updated to version 2.4.1
* WiX support updated to version 2.0.5325
* Cecil updated to version 0.5
* SharpDevelop Reports 2.2 included
* SharpDbTools has been removed from the 2.x series

Because it caused confusion in the past we also clarified the license on our samples (part of the source download): they now come with explicit BSD headers. The same license was applied to the debugger addin, which kind of is a (rather big) example on using the debugging APIs:

http://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/dsrbecky/archive/2007/06/15/part-of-debugger-bsd-licensed.aspx

Our Web offerings were extended too, we now provide an online code formatter (eg C# to formatted HTML) – read more here:

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

2) SharpDevelop “Montferrer” Status

Work on the next feature release version of SharpDevelop has started already. Our focus will be support for .NET 3.x, including LINQ, Windows Workflow Foundation as well as Windows Presentation Foundation.

Daniel wrote a blog post on where WPF support stands today:

http://laputa.sharpdevelop.net/XAMLAndWPFSupportInSharpDevelop30.aspx

Please see the comments to this post for details on how to help. Speaking of help, we could use help in various areas:

http://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/RoadmapVersion3x.ashx

Of course, there is the wish list too if nothing on our official todo list caught your fancy:

http://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/Wishlist.ashx

Simply go to http://community.sharpdevelop.net/forums/23/ShowForum.aspx and let us know what you’d be interested in helping with. Join the team!

3) SharpDevelop Featured on .NET Rocks!

In May, an interview was recorded with Christoph Wille, the PM of SharpDevelop. Christoph gives some background of the project’s history, where it stands today, and what the future holds. More details and link to the show:

http://chrison.net/MeOnNETRocks.aspx

4) SharpZipLib 0.85.2 Release

John Reilly today released a new version for SharpZipLib:

http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SharpZipLib/Download.aspx

Release information and the change log can be found on the project’s Wiki page:

http://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/SharpZipLib_MainPage.ashx

5) Downloads

SharpDevelop 2.2 is available on our Downloads page:

http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/Download/#SharpDevelop22

Please note that to take full advantage of SharpDevelop 2.2 features, you must install the following software too:

NCover: http://ncover.org/site/ (Code Coverage)
FxCop: http://www.gotdotnet.com/Team/FxCop/ (Code Analysis)
TortoiseSVN: http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ (Source Control)

6) 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/