SharpDevelop News

1) Release Information

Due to a problem in Windows Installer, upgrades from SharpDevelop 3.0 to SharpDevelop 3.1 are not possible. You need to uninstall SharpDevelop 3.0 before installing 3.1 (SD2-1565).

What’s new in this release:
* Improved Python Windows Forms Designer and Code Conversion
* Debugging of Python application
* Basic support for profiling Unit Tests
* Small UI enhancements (e.g. "Open in explorer" context menu command for directories in project browser)
* Bugfixes
* Update Mono.Cecil revision 134535, NUnit 2.5.1, WiX 3.0 (3.0.5419), IronPython 2.0.2, F# May 2009 CTP

2) Downloads

SharpDevelop 3.1 RC 1:
http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/Download/#SharpDevelopBetas

Please note that to take full advantage of SharpDevelop 3.x 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# (May 2009 CTP)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7bb32f32-9fac-4f34-ad56-b0bda130cf00&displaylang=en

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/