Amnon82
10th June 2006, 00:02
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 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.
The features:
* Forms designer for C# and VB.NET
* Code completion for C# and VB.NET (including Ctrl+Space support)
* XML Editing
* Folding
* Code AutoInsert (Alt+Ins)
* C# to VB.NET converter, as well as VB.NET to C# converter
* Completely written in C#
* Compile C# and VB.NET in the IDE out-of-the-box
* Open source, GPL licensed
* ILAsm and C++ backends
* Integrated NUnit support
* Assembly Analyzer ("FxCop on steroids")
* Xml documentation preview
* User interface translated to many languages
* Everything templated: add new project or file types, or even compilers to SharpDevelop
And here are some more...
* Write C#, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, XML, HTML code
* Project or File-based development (Project Scout & File Scout)
* Rich project options
* Syntax highlighting for C#, HTML, ASP, ASP.NET, VBScript, VB.NET, XML
* Intelligent braces
* Bookmark your code
* Code template support
* Feature-rich Find & Replace dialogs
* Easily extensible with external tools
* Easily extensible with Plug-Ins
* ... and much more
Homepages:
Download stable builds (http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/Download/)
Download daily builds (http://build.sharpdevelop.net/BuildArtefacts/)
CSharp.Wiki (http://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/)
SharpDevelop Tuts (http://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/default.aspx/SharpDevelop.SharpDevelopTutorials1x)
CodeProject.com (http://www.codeproject.com/)
Free EBook:
http://static.icsharpcode.net/Layout/Common/InsideSharpDevelop.png
Dissecting a C# Application (3.8 MB PDF file) (http://www.apress.com/free/content/Dissecting_A_CSharp_Application.pdf)
The source code to accompany this title (5.9MB Zip file) (http://support.apress.com/1861008171/sharpdevelop_wroxedition.zip)
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 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.
The features:
* Forms designer for C# and VB.NET
* Code completion for C# and VB.NET (including Ctrl+Space support)
* XML Editing
* Folding
* Code AutoInsert (Alt+Ins)
* C# to VB.NET converter, as well as VB.NET to C# converter
* Completely written in C#
* Compile C# and VB.NET in the IDE out-of-the-box
* Open source, GPL licensed
* ILAsm and C++ backends
* Integrated NUnit support
* Assembly Analyzer ("FxCop on steroids")
* Xml documentation preview
* User interface translated to many languages
* Everything templated: add new project or file types, or even compilers to SharpDevelop
And here are some more...
* Write C#, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, XML, HTML code
* Project or File-based development (Project Scout & File Scout)
* Rich project options
* Syntax highlighting for C#, HTML, ASP, ASP.NET, VBScript, VB.NET, XML
* Intelligent braces
* Bookmark your code
* Code template support
* Feature-rich Find & Replace dialogs
* Easily extensible with external tools
* Easily extensible with Plug-Ins
* ... and much more
Homepages:
Download stable builds (http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/Download/)
Download daily builds (http://build.sharpdevelop.net/BuildArtefacts/)
CSharp.Wiki (http://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/)
SharpDevelop Tuts (http://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/default.aspx/SharpDevelop.SharpDevelopTutorials1x)
CodeProject.com (http://www.codeproject.com/)
Free EBook:
http://static.icsharpcode.net/Layout/Common/InsideSharpDevelop.png
Dissecting a C# Application (3.8 MB PDF file) (http://www.apress.com/free/content/Dissecting_A_CSharp_Application.pdf)
The source code to accompany this title (5.9MB Zip file) (http://support.apress.com/1861008171/sharpdevelop_wroxedition.zip)