SharpDevelop 4.0 RC2

1) Release Information

Instead of releasing a final 4.0 build before Christmas, we decided to add another release candidate. The reason is that we did quite a bit of performance work, especially in the text editor – and we simply want to verify that it is faster, and more importantly, that we did not introduce any bugs in the course of the optimizations.

Please download and provide us with feedback!

2) Downloads

SharpDevelop 4.0 RC2:
http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/Download/#SharpDevelop4x

SharpDevelop 4.0 is built against .NET Framework 4.0 Full – you must install it first.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0a391abd-25c1-4fc0-919f-b21f31ab88b7&displaylang=en

Please note that .NET 3.5 SP1 [2] is required too, and the Windows SDK [3] is strongly recommended.

[2] http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ab99342f-5d1a-413d-8319-81da479ab0d7&displaylang=en
[3] http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6b6c21d2-2006-4afa-9702-529fa782d63b&displaylang=en

SharpDevelop can take advantage of the following software if you install it:

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

TortoiseSVN (Source Control)
http://tortoisesvn.net/

Microsoft F#
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=effc5bc4-c3df-4172-ad1c-bc62935861c5

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/