SharpDevelop News

1) Release Information

SharpDevelop 4.0 is getting close to release with today’s availability of the release candidate (RC). Please download and use it in production settings. Do let us know of even the smallest issues you encounter via the forums - including detailed reproduction steps will help us produce a fix faster!

The final release of SharpDevelop 4.0 is planned before Christmas.

2) Downloads

SharpDevelop 4.0 Release Candidate:
http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/Download/#SharpDevelop4x

SharpDevelop 4.0 is built against .NET Framework 4.0 Full – you must install it first.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0a391abd-25c1-4fc0-919f-b21f31ab88b7&displaylang=en

Please note that .NET 3.5 SP1 [2] is required too, and the Windows SDK [3] is strongly recommended.
[2] http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ab99342f-5d1a-413d-8319-81da479ab0d7&displaylang=en
[3] http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6b6c21d2-2006-4afa-9702-529fa782d63b&displaylang=en

SharpDevelop can take advantage of the following software if you install it:

Microsoft StyleCop
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/sourceanalysis

TortoiseSVN (Source Control)
http://tortoisesvn.net/

Microsoft F#
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=effc5bc4-c3df-4172-ad1c-bc62935861c5

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/