SharpDevelop News

1) Release Information

This is our last release candidate for SharpDevelop 3.1, and we expect the final release to follow soon. Please note there is one breaking change included in RC 2 – the way projects are created by default. Make sure to read this blog post:

http://laputa.sharpdevelop.net/SharpDevelopNowCreatesProjectsAs32bitByDefault.aspx

From the Tips & Tricks department – if you haven’t looked at the profiler, test-drive it using its unit test profiling feature:

http://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/siegfried_pammer/archive/2009/09/02/profiling-unit-tests-made-easy.aspx

Finally, Python support has been improved again for this version. Note however that project resources support for the forms designer will not ship in SharpDevelop 3.1.

2) Downloads

SharpDevelop 3.1 RC 2:
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/