SharpDevelop News

1) Release Information

Welcome to the first release of 2010 – a preview release of SharpDevelop 3.2! It comes with two big new features – with IronRuby we support a sixth programming language (in addition to C#, VB.NET, F#, Boo and IronPython), and we bring back a completely rewritten and vastly extended SharpDevelop Reports.

* IronRuby 1.0 RC1 support
http://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/mattward/archive/2009/12/30/IronRubyIntegrationUpdate.aspx
* SharpDevelop Reports (SDR)
http://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/sharpdevelopreports/archive/2010/01/13/getting-started-with-sdr.aspx
* Boo has been upgraded to 0.9.3.3457
* The Web-based code converter supports converting to IronPython and IronRuby
http://codeconverter.sharpdevelop.net/

2) Downloads

SharpDevelop 3.2 CTP:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sharpdevelop/files/SharpDevelop%203.x/3.2%20CTP/

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# (October 2009 CTP)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b55f0532-ac3c-4106-918c-5586a953a7da&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/