SharpDevelop

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SharpDevelop
<tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"> Screenshot of SharpDevelop</td></tr><tr><th>Developer:</th><td>ICSharpCode Team</td></tr><tr><th>Latest release:</th><td>2.1.0.2017 / November 4, 2006</td></tr><tr><th>OS:</th><td>Microsoft Windows</td></tr>
Use:	IDE <tr><th>License:</th><td>LGPL</td></tr>
Website:	www.sharpdevelop.com

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SharpDevelop is a free and open source IDE for the C#, Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) and Boo 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. For Boo, the parser from the Boo compiler is used, but resolving the type of expressions and type inference is done with custom code that supports lazy evaluation of the types. SharpDevelop 1.1 can import projects written with Visual Studio, SharpDevelop 2.0 can open and edit them directly. It also can translate whole projects from VB.NET to C# and vice-versa. SharpDevelop 1.1 cannot however be used to create asp.net web projects, which Visual Studio can, or rather it has the option in the file menu but it has not been completed yet. The company is currently looking for coders to help support this feature

SharpDevelop 2.0 has an integrated debugger. It uses its own debugging library that talks to the Microsoft .NET runtime using COM interop.

While SharpDevelop 2.0 uses the same MSBuild project files as Visual Studio, it is still able to use other .NET compilers such as older framework versions (1.0, 1.1) or the Mono compiler.

[edit] SharpDevelop features (advertised)

A Windows Forms designer for C#, VB.NET and Boo
Code completion for C#, VB.NET and Boo (including Ctrl+Space support)
Integrated debugger
Declaration tooltips, debugger tooltips
"Go to definition", "Find references", "Rename"-refactoring
Function folding
Code AutoInsert
A C#↔VB.NET->Boo converter
Completely written in C#
Compile C#, VB.NET, Boo in the IDE out-of-the-box
ILAsm and C++ backends
Integrated NUnit and MbUnit 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 braces
Bookmarking
Code template support
Easily extensible with external tools
Easily extensible with addins