SharpDevelop

SharpDevelop was designed as a free and lightweight alternative to Microsoft Visual Studio, and contains an equivalent feature for almost every essential Visual Studio Express feature and features very similar to those found in Borland Kylix and Delphi, including advanced project management, code editing, application compiling and debugging functionality.[http://visualbasic.about.com/od/usingvbnet/l/aa122602a.htm "A Free 'Visual Studio' for VB.NET"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111016135738/http://visualbasic.about.com/od/usingvbnet/l/aa122602a.htm |date=2011-10-16 }}. About.com, Visual Basic. More specifically, the IDE includes a GUI designer, code/design views, syntax highlighting, auto completion menus (similar to IntelliSense) the ability to compile and debug form/console .NET Framework applications, a "New Project" wizard, toolbars, menus, panels and a docking system,{{Rp|7}}Ward, Matt (July 5, 2006). [http://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/mattward/articles/FeatureTour.aspx "Feature Tour"]. SharpDevelop.net community.Ward, Matt (July 12, 2006). [http://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/mattward/articles/VisualStudioExpressComparison.aspx "Visual Studio Express and SharpDevelop Compared"]. SharpDevelop.net community. and built-in code refactoring tools,[http://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/mattward/articles/FeatureTourRefactoring.aspx "Refactoring"], SharpDevelop Feature Tour.[http://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/mattward/articles/FeatureTourCodeGeneration.aspx "Code Generation"]. SharpDevelop Feature Tour. and it has an integrated debugger that allows for stepping, viewing values of objects in memory, and breakpoints.[http://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/mattward/articles/FeatureTourDebugging.aspx "Debugging"]. SharpDevelop Feature Tour.

To allow for easy project migration, SharpDevelop works natively with Visual Studio project and code files. It is able to compile applications for .NET Framework version 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5.1 and the .NET Compact Framework 2.0 and 3.5.[http://www.codeproject.com/KB/windows/WiMoSansVS.aspx "Windows Mobile Development Without Visual Studio"]. The Code Project.

SharpDevelop's Graphic User Interface Designers work with the C#, VB.NET, Boo, and the IronPython and IronRuby languages, using the following GUI technologies:

• Windows Forms[http://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/mattward/articles/FeatureTourVisuallyDesigningForms.aspx "Visually Designing Forms"]. SharpDevelop Feature Tour.
• Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
• Entity Framework

SharpDevelop was written entirely in C# and consists of about 20 components that integrate to form the application. The source-code editor component, known as AvalonEdit,[http://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/AvalonEdit.ashx "AvalonEdit"]. SharpDevelop wiki. can be used by other applications.{{cite web |url=http://www.codeproject.com/KB/edit/AvalonEdit.aspx |title=Using AvalonEdit (WPF Text Editor) |website=The Code Project |date=5 October 2009 }}

It also includes functionality for:

• External COM and ActiveX components
• Code analysis (FxCop)[http://www.codeproject.com/KB/macros/sharpdev_community_annota.aspx "SharpDevelop in the Real World: Code Annotations"]. The Code Project.
• Unit testing (NUnit)[http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/34658/SharpDevelop-NUnit-and-Visual-Studio-Express "SharpDevelop, NUnit, and Visual Studio Express"]. The Code Project.
• Code coverage (PartCover)
• Profiler
• Subversion (TortoiseSVN)
• Git
• Mercurial
• StyleCop add-in
• Documentation generation (Sandcastle, SHFB)
• Plugins[http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/ICSharpCodeCore.aspx "Building Applications with the SharpDevelop Core"]. The Code Project.[http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/LineCounterSDAddIn.aspx "Line Counter - Writing a SharpDevelop Add-In"]. The Code Project.

On 11 September 2000 Mike Kruger launched the project, while testing the first public release of .NET Framework 1.0. At that time there was no C#/.NET IDE publicly available. So he decided to write a code editor to run the compiler.{{cite web|url=http://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/christophwille/archive/2010/09/11/happy-anniversary-10-years-of-sharpdevelop.aspx|title=Happy Anniversary - 10 Years of SharpDevelop|website=Community.SharpDevelop.net|first=Christoph|last=Wille}} Early in its development, the project was split for Mono and Gtk# development into the MonoDevelop project, which is maintained as a cross-platform IDE, and after Microsoft's acquisition of Xamarin, has become the basis of Visual Studio for Mac.

{{As of|2013|post=,}} SharpDevelop had been downloaded at least 8 million times worldwide,[http://sourceforge.net/projects/sharpdevelop/files/stats/timeline?dates=2001-01-04+to+2013-12-30 "SharpDevelop Download Stats 2001-01-04 to 2013-12-30"]. SourceForge. (8.1M downloads). Retrieved December 30, 2013.[http://sharpdevelop.codeplex.com/stats "SharpDevelop (Stats for the project lifetime)"]. CodePlex. (40K downloads). Retrieved December 30, 2013. The SharpDevelop codebase was documented in the book Dissecting a C# Application: Inside SharpDevelop (2003) written by the core development team and published by Wrox Press.

On 18 September 2017, Daniel Grunwald of the ICSharpCode team announced the project is "dead" for reasons related to the fast pace of changes to C# and .NET, including .NET Core, and suggested SharpDevelop users switch to either MonoDevelop or Visual Studio Code IDEs, each being recommended as a suitable open source replacement that is the target of regular updates and other maintenance.[https://github.com/icsharpcode/SharpDevelop/issues/799 "Is the project dead?"] Is the project dead?

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Pickering, Robert (2009). [https://books.google.com/books?id=UObTv4SB_5UC&dq=SharpDevelop&pg=PA11 Beginning F#], Apress. p. 11.

Troelsen, Andrew (2010). [https://books.google.com/books?id=rgloOPCa3zoC&dq=SharpDevelop&pg=PA50 Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4.0 Platform, (5th Edition)]. Apress. p. 50.

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