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1) What's New

This is a stopgap release in between milestones. We have improved VB.NET code completion, fixed a lot of forms designer bugs, made the VS.NET solution import/export more robust and replaced the original C# compiler options dialog with a property grid for easier future extension.

There is one major change in this release though: the main IDE is now no longer using the Magic Library, we have switched to Weifen Luo's DockManager Control (http://www.freewebs.com/weifenluo/DockManager.htm). Please report any problems that you experience with the docking of the pads and views inside the IDE.... read more

1) What's New
2) Known Issues
3) Changes
4) Where to Download
5) Where to Report Bugs

1) What's New

The big news for this release is the forms designer and code completion for VB.NET. As you can tell from the time delta between the last version and this release it took us longer than initially expected. To no small part these features were made possible by the relentless work of Markus Palme on the VB.NET parser. Note that there are still some code completion scenarios that might not work help us improve code completion by sending samples that do not work.... read more

1) What's New
2) Changes
3) Where to Download
4) Where to Report Bugs

1) What's New

This release has seen a complete rewrite of the text editor (it is now much faster), which also should be now much easier reuseable as a control in other applications. Also new by (very) popular request is the Tools / Options / Text Editor - Highlighting panel. It allows you to modify the syntax highlighting that is used inside #develop. Give it a try! Improvements you also should check out are the configuration of the external tools as well as the work that went into the Assembly Scout. Work on the parser for VB.NET is also progressing, we are confident that initial versions of code completion and forms designers for VB.NET will tip up soon. ... read more

1) What's New
2) Changes
3) Where to Download
4) Where to Report Bugs

1) What's New

This release focuses on the elimination of a number of critical bugs mostly related to issues concerning the compatibility between Magic Library and .NET 1.1. This means that some things had to be temporarily disabled and that others have significantly improved. A number of 'favorite gripes' have also been adressed. Overall, stability and performance have improved and a number of add-in tools has been added.... read more

1) What's New
2) Changes
3) Where to Download
4) Where to Report Bugs

1) What's New

At the end of this year's #develop summer camp, we bring you this new release of #develop it has been a long wait. We have focused on improving the forms designer: a more stable roundtripping has been implemented, the forms designer now sports a functioning menu designer, components can be selected in a new dropdown in the property grid, resetting properties of controls to default values via a context menu has been added, the toolbox is configurable with custom controls, user controls can be reloaded automatically - additionally, many more smaller changes and bug fixes have been incorporated. ... read more

1) What's New

For this release, we have focused on making #develop work on both .NET 1.0 and 1.1. Please note that the install application for this and upcoming releases will be .NET 1.1 only - if you want to run #develop on .NET 1.0, you have to download the source
code and compile yourself. No major new features except for the exception dialog box (we hope you don't see it too often), our current focus is on making #develop portable to other CLR's and platforms (more on this in the next section).... read more

1) Bugs Fixed
2) Where to Download
3) SharpDevelop the Book

1) Bugs Fixed

This interim release fixes issues that were reported in our Bug Reporting forum:

* Works on Windows 98 again (FileSystemWatcher is optional)
* Keys which are reached via AltGr work now ("@-Bug")
* Toolbox fixed when multiple forms are open
* Localized help files work (ms-help URI issue)
* Core compiles on Mono... read more

1) What's New in #develop .94
2) Changes
3) Where to Download
4) Where to Report Bugs
5) SharpDevelop the Book
6) Mono Porting of SharpDevelop

1) What's New in #develop .94

The year 2003 starts with a feature-loaded new version of SharpDevelop, the open-source IDE for .NET. For starters, the forms designer[1] has been reworked and now supports events and custom controls. New kids on the block are the Ctrl+W (Code AutoInsert[2]) and Ctrl+Q (XML Quick Doc[3]) features (in general, we recommend that you take the Feature Tour[4]!). There are also news on the help front: we are proud to announce to be able to integrate the .NET Framework SDK help and DirectX 9 (if installed) help into the Help Scout. In an attempt to kick-start Mono porting[5], the SharpDevelop core has been split out into a separate assembly.... read more

1) What's New in #develop .93
2) Changes
3) Where to Download
4) Where to Report Bugs

1) What's New in #develop .93

This release has seen many smaller improvements, such as fixes to the forms designer, text area, etc. Areas that were reworked heavily are the RegEx toolkit and the Object Browser (Assembly Scout). Both can be found in the Tools menu, and we encourage you to check them out! Special thanks fly out to our translators, and we are proud to now be able to support #develop in Chinese Traditional and Simplified. Also in the news: we are working on a VB.NET parser, which means there will be code completion for VB.NET in the future. ... read more

1) What's New in #develop .92
2) Changes
3) Where to Download
4) Where to Report Bugs

1) What's New in #develop .92

The focus of this release was to improve various areas of #develop, as you can see detailed in the change log, ranging from the forms designer to language backend bindings. One major change is that the #cvs project has been discontinued - it was originally intended to be our administration client for CVS, but because we switched to Subversion internally, we are not going to continue working on #cvs (if someone is interested to take over the project, please contact us).... read more

1) What's New in #develop .91
2) Changes
3) Where to Download
4) Where to Report Bugs
5) How Can I Help?

1) What's New in #develop .91

We have focused on three areas in this release: new/improved Search & Replace functionality, better code completion, more features in the Forms Designer. The standard Search & Replace was refactored, wildcard search and find in files was added. With regards to code completion, we improved the type resolver. And the Forms Designer is showing a lot of progress too: the Format menu sports alignment, sizing, spacing and ordering operations. Cut, Copy and Paste do work for controls as well as context menu for the same. Finally, you can see the first iteration of roundtripping from source code to form design (a screenshot is featured on the homepage).... read more

1) What's New in #develop .90
2) Changes
3) Where to Download
4) Where to Report Bugs
5) How Can I Help?
6) Special Mention of the Build

1) What's New in #develop .90

Upon popular request and personal motivation, we shortened the release cycle to bring you full production-grade code completion even faster. Aside from this major improvement, we made the Forms Designer more functional: it now auto-generates C# and VB.NET code, supports invisible controls and is generally more stable and
feature complete. Our support for far-east languages has increased with IME, and COM integration with a COM references panel.... read more

1) What's New in #develop .89
2) Changes
3) Where to Download
4) Where to Report Bugs
5) How Can I Help?

1) What's New in #develop .89

This release completes a major restructuring of the infrastructure and source code tree. Projects support backend bindings that are not targeting compilers, the object browser has much more functionality than before, folding was re-integrated and a new XML formatting strategy added (for details, see the Changes section). Our feature preview this time: a Windows Forms Designer. Take a look at the tech note and source code - if you have time to spare, help us make it a great open source implementation of a forms designer!... read more

After a longer than usual wait, we are very excited to bring you a new version of #develop. Some major features were added or vastly improved:

* Code Completion for C#
* Class Scout for C#
* #Unit (much improved Unit Testing framework)
* Regular Expression search
* New Add References dialog
* Support for Unix and MacIntosh file saving

Don't forget to take the feature tour!

http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/Tour/default.asp... read more

SharpDevelop - a C# IDE:

Finally we got .80 out of the door. It has many UI improvements (new options dialog boxes, new project dialog boxes, etc). We added DOC.NET support, a Toolbar for text drag & drop support, project deployment, and more. Please see http://icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/Changes.asp for more information.

Today, we have release Beta .75. It comes with usual load of bug fixes (#1 reason to download it), as well as a slew of new features: code completion, CVS support, NUnit-compatible testing framework and more. Fore more details, please see http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/Changes.asp

We have released Language Pack 1 for Beta 0.70. Please see the download area.

6/20/2001 - We have finally released a new version of SharpDevelop, Beta .70, which is compatible with .NET Beta 2. It has many new and improved features (http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/features.asp), and runs much more stable than previous Betas.