SharpDevelop

SharpDevelop is a free and open source Integrated development environment for the C Sharp programming language and Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) programming languages.

It is typically used by those who prefer not to use Microsoft s Visual Studio .NET. There is a port to Mono/GTK# called MonoDevelop which runs on other operating systems.

For code completion SharpDevelop uses its own parsers for C# and VB.NET. They were generated using a grammar description and a modified version of the Coco/R compiler generator of the University of Linz. The source code contains this generator. SharpDevelop can import projects written with the Visual Studio. It also can translate whole projects from VB.NET to C# and vice-versa.

=SharpDevelop features (advertised)=

A Windows Forms designer for C# and VB.NET

Code completion for C# and VB.NET (including Ctrl+Space support)

Function folding

Code AutoInsert

A C#↔VB.NET converter

Completely written in C#

Compile C#, VB.NET in the IDE out-of-the-box

ILAsm and C plus plus backends

Integrated NUnit support

Assembly Analyzer ( FxCop on steroids )

XML documentation preview

Everything templated: add new project or file types, or even compilers to SharpDevelop

Write C#, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, XML, HTML code

Rich project options

Syntax highlighting for C#, HTML, ASP, ASP.NET, VBScript, VB.NET, XML

Intelligent bracket#Curly_brackets_or_braces_.7B_.7Ds

Bookmarking

Code template support

Easily extensible with external tools

Easily extensible with addins

=Documentation=

*[http://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/default.aspx/SharpDevelop.SharpDevelopTutorials1x SharpDevelopTutorials1x] *[http://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/default.aspx/SharpDevelop.QuickFeatureList1x QuickFeatureList1x] A quick review of the features *[http://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/default.aspx/SharpDevelop.KeyboardShortcuts1x KeyboardShortcut1x] a list of keyboard shortcuts *[http://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/default.aspx/SharpDevelop.FrequentlyAskedQuestions1x FAQ1x] *[http://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/default.aspx/SharpDevelop.FeatureVideos Feature videos] *[http://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/default.aspx/SharpDevelop.BugList1x Bug list]

=Roadmap=

*[http://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/default.aspx/SharpDevelop.SharpDevelop1xRoadmap SharpDevelop1xRoadmap] Road map for #develop Fidalgo (and more). Those versions are based on .NET 1.1 *[http://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/default.aspx/SharpDevelop.SharpDevelop2xRoadmap SharpDevelop2xRoadmap] Roadmap for the future version of #develop. Based on .NET 2.0

=Available addins=

A list of available addins can be found in the [http://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/default.aspx/SharpDevelop.ThirdPartyAddIns SharpDevelop wiki]

=External links=

*[http://www.sharpdevelop.com/OpenSource/SD/ SharpDevelop homepage] *[http://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/ SharpDevelop wiki] *[http://sourceforge.net/projects/sharpdevelop SharpDevelop on Sourceforge]