SharpDevelop 3.0 Release Candidate

1) Release Information

Welcome to the one and only release candidate for SharpDevelop 3.0! Your feedback in our forums is highly encouraged to help us decide what needs to be fixed for final release.

With our Beta 3 release we ran into versioning issues with the included IronPython assemblies. Therefore, we’d like to ask you to uninstall any previous builds of SharpDevelop 3.0 and do a clean install of the release candidate. Please do not upgrade an existing beta installation! Your existing settings will be preserved by uninstall / clean install.

Our main focus was on bugfixing, we only want to point out a few important changes:

* F# addin improved on “F# not installed”
* Performance improvements for code conversion
* Improved auto-detection of FxCop
* NRefactory fixes
* Update Mono.Cecil to revision 122476
* Updated to WiX 3.0.4917.0
* Update to Boo 0.9.0.3153

Past SharpDevelop 3.0 release announcements:

http://community.sharpdevelop.net/forums/t/8774.aspx (Beta 3)
http://community.sharpdevelop.net/forums/t/8231.aspx (Beta 2)
http://community.sharpdevelop.net/forums/t/7381.aspx (Beta 1)

2) Downloads

SharpDevelop 3.0 Release Candidate:

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# (September 2008 CTP)

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/