SharpDevelop 3.0 Beta 2

1) Release Information

The following changes were incorporated in Beta 1:

http://community.sharpdevelop.net/forums/t/7381.aspx

Following is a list of changes from Beta 1 to Beta 2 (more information is available on our team blogs site http://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/\):

* SharpDevelop on a Memory Stick
http://laputa.sharpdevelop.net/SharpDevelopOnAMemoryStick.aspx

* New Windows Forms Designer Localization Model
http://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/christianhornung/archive/2008/07/31/new-windows-forms-designer-localization-model-available.aspx

* StyleCop Addin
http://laputa.sharpdevelop.net/StyleCopAddin.aspx

* Reflector Addin
http://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/christianhornung/archive/2008/07/27/reflector-addin-released.aspx

* Read-Only Project Support

* SharpRefactoring Addin

* Debugger improvements: Stability, Console Pad, Attach to process – and more!

* Updates to included software packages

Update to WiX 3.0.4415
Update to IronPython 2.0 beta 4
Update to SHFB 1.7
Update NUnit to 2.4.8
Update Boo to 0.8.2

* Features that were removed

Unfinished Addins: SettingsEditor, WorkflowDesigner, SharpServerTools

2) Downloads

SharpDevelop 3.0 Beta 2:

http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/Download/#SharpDevelop30

Please note that to take full advantage of SharpDevelop 3.0 features, you must install the following software too:

FxCop (Code Analysis)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9aeaa970-f281-4fb0-aba1-d59d7ed09772&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft StyleCop

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/sourceanalysis

TortoiseSVN (Source Control)

http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/

F# (Programming Language, 1.9.3.14 tested with Beta 2)

http://research.microsoft.com/fsharp/release.aspx

3) 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/