http://community.sharpdevelop.net/forums/3.aspxThis forum is used by SharpDevelop Team Members to announce releases of new versions.enCommunityServer 2007.1 SP2 (Build: 31113.47)http://community.sharpdevelop.net/forums/thread/20958.aspxTue, 19 Feb 2008 21:29:37 GMT1b90d1c1-04e6-45b0-b51d-b665527d49b9:20958ChristophWille0http://community.sharpdevelop.net/forums/thread/20958.aspxhttp://community.sharpdevelop.net/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=3&PostID=20958<b>1) Release Information</b><br /> <p>Welcome to the first Beta of SharpDevelop 3.0 targeting .NET Framework 3.5! As this introduction implies, setup requires .NET 3.5 installed on your machine:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=333325FD-AE52-4E35-B531-508D977D32A6&amp;displaylang=en">http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=333325FD-AE52-4E35-B531-508D977D32A6&amp;displaylang=en</a></p> <p>Recommended but not required is the installation of the related SDK (additional tools, samples, documentation, ...):</p> <p><a href="http://community.sharpdevelop.net/forums/t/7337.aspx">http://community.sharpdevelop.net/forums/t/7337.aspx</a></p> <p>Although the requirement for installed framework changed, multi-targeting frameworks is still supported!</p> <p>SharpDevelop 3.0 comes with a lot of changes, the breaking changes in comparison to version 2.2 are detailed in the next section. So what’s new?</p> <p>* Parallel build support for multi-core machines</p> <p><a href="http://laputa.sharpdevelop.net/CompilingInSharpDevelopJustGot30Faster.aspx">http://laputa.sharpdevelop.net/CompilingInSharpDevelopJustGot30Faster.aspx</a></p> <p><a href="http://laputa.sharpdevelop.net/AndNowCompilingInSharpDevelopIs40Faster.aspx">http://laputa.sharpdevelop.net/AndNowCompilingInSharpDevelopIs40Faster.aspx</a></p> <p>* IronPython language support has been added</p> <p><a href="http://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/mattward/archive/2007/11/18/IronPythonAddInInternals.aspx">http://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/mattward/archive/2007/11/18/IronPythonAddInInternals.aspx</a></p> <p>* F# language support has been added (F# must be installed separately)</p> <p>* C# 3.0 code completion is implemented (NOTE: VB9 is *not* as of Beta 1)</p> <p>* The debugger infrastructure has been rewritten, more features to come in Beta 2</p> <p>* Performance and stability work (i.e. VB &lt;-&gt; C# conversion)</p> <p><b>2) Important Feature Changes</b></p> <p>NDoc has been replaced with Sandcastle</p> <p><a href="http://laputa.sharpdevelop.net/NDocReplacedWithSandcastleHelpFileBuilderSHFB.aspx">http://laputa.sharpdevelop.net/NDocReplacedWithSandcastleHelpFileBuilderSHFB.aspx</a></p> <p>NCover has been replaced with PartCover</p> <p><a href="http://laputa.sharpdevelop.net/CodeCoverageAddinUsesPartCover22InsteadOfNCoverInSharpDevelop3.aspx">http://laputa.sharpdevelop.net/CodeCoverageAddinUsesPartCover22InsteadOfNCoverInSharpDevelop3.aspx</a></p> <p>WiX 3.0 has been integrated</p> <p><a href="http://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/mattward/archive/2008/01/02/Wix3Integration.aspx">http://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/mattward/archive/2008/01/02/Wix3Integration.aspx</a></p> <p>Mono and NAnt support no longer shipping in setup (still supported though)</p> <p><a href="http://laputa.sharpdevelop.net/SharpDevelop3WhereDidMonoAndNAntSupportGo.aspx">http://laputa.sharpdevelop.net/SharpDevelop3WhereDidMonoAndNAntSupportGo.aspx</a></p> <p><b>3) Joining the Team</b></p> <p>We are a small team and additional developers are always welcomed. Currently, we are looking for help in various areas:</p> <p>The WPF Designer</p> <p><a href="http://laputa.sharpdevelop.net/HelpWantedWPFDesignerTasks.aspx">http://laputa.sharpdevelop.net/HelpWantedWPFDesignerTasks.aspx</a></p> <p>Class Designer and Workflow Designer</p> <p><a href="http://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/itaibh/archive/2007/08/23/help-needed.aspx">http://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/itaibh/archive/2007/08/23/help-needed.aspx</a></p> <p><a href="http://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/russellwilkins/archive/2007/08/25/workflow-foundation-plugin-update.aspx">http://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/russellwilkins/archive/2007/08/25/workflow-foundation-plugin-update.aspx</a></p> <p>To get a general idea of the roadmap for 3.0, please see</p> <p><a href="http://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/RoadmapVersion3x.ashx">http://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/RoadmapVersion3x.ashx</a></p> <p><a href="http://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/JoiningTheTeam.ashx">http://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/JoiningTheTeam.ashx</a></p> <p><b>4) Downloads</b> </p> <p>SharpDevelop 3.0 Beta 1 is available on SourceForge: </p> <p><a href="https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=17610&amp;package_id=263439&amp;release_id=577467">https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=17610&amp;package_id=263439&amp;release_id=577467</a></p> <p>Please note that to take full advantage of SharpDevelop 3.0 features, you must install the following software too: </p> <p>FxCop (Code Analysis) </p> <p><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/fxcop/archive/2007/10/10/fxcop-1-36-beta-released.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/fxcop/archive/2007/10/10/fxcop-1-36-beta-released.aspx</a></p> <p>TortoiseSVN (Source Control) </p> <p><a href="http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/">http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/</a></p> <p>F# (Programming Language, 1.9.3.14 tested with Beta 1)</p> <p><a href="http://research.microsoft.com/fsharp/release.aspx">http://research.microsoft.com/fsharp/release.aspx</a></p><span></span><b>5) Support</b> <p>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): </p> <p><a href="http://community.sharpdevelop.net/forums/">http://community.sharpdevelop.net/forums/</a><br /></p>