Thank you for choosing SharpDevelop as your development environment for .NET.
SharpDevelop is a state of the art development environment, written from scratch
using nothing but .NET itself - even the C# source code is available to you,
allowing you to see the possibilities offered by .NET.
Features at a glance:
- Code completion
- Code auto-generation
- C#, VB.NET, Boo, Gtk#, Glade#, console, Windows Forms project and file templates.
- Forms Designer for C#, VB.NET and Boo.
- Integrated debugger
- Code coverage
- Integrated NAnt support
- XML editor
- Unit testing
- Web references
- PInvoke signatures
- Class browser
- Code refactoring
- XML documentation preview
- Language conversion (C# to VB.NET, C# to Boo, and vice versa)
- Bookmarks
- Project browser
- File browser
- Regular expressions toolkit
- Targeting the .NET Frameworks 1.1, 1.0
- Supports the Mono Framework 1.1, 2.0 and Mono C# compilers
- Uses the same project and solution file format as Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio Express.
- Extensible through plug-ins
Please note that SharpDevelop is a work in progress. Visit
our Web site regularly to learn about updates, suggest features, contribute
code and inform us about problems you have encountered.
Thank you, the SharpDevelop Team.