#develop - Free IDE for C#, VB.NET , Boo Projects

[Quad Master]

#develop (short for SharpDevelop) is a free IDE for C#, VB.NET and Boo projects on Microsoft’s .NET platform. It is open-source, and you can download both sourcecode and executables.In addition, you can find the latest information and changes on #develop, as well as get in touch with the team in the forum.

Looks exactly like Visual Studio .NET IDE

Features

• Forms designer for C#, VB.NET and Boo
  
• Code completion for C#, VB.NET and Boo (including Ctrl+Space support)
  
• Integrated NUnit support plus code coverage (NCover)
  
• Integrated debugger
  
• Code Analysis with FxCop
  
• Refactoring support
  
• Multi-framework support (.NET 1.1 and 2.0, Mono, Compact Framework)
  
• XML Editing (source and tree view) with XPath search
  
• Parser-based code converter (C# to VB.NET / Boo and more)
  
• Compile C#, VB.NET & Boo code in the IDE out-of-the-box
  
• Code AutoInsert (Alt+Ins)
  
• Xml documentation preview
  
• Setup projects supported with Windows Installer XML (WiX)
  
• Subversion integration
  
• Open source, LGPL licensed

And here are some more…

• User interface translated to many languages
  
• 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
  
• Folding
  
• Bookmark your code
  
• Code template support
  
• Component Inspector
  
• Feature-rich Find & Replace dialogs (including incremental search)
  
• Easily extensible with external tools
  
• Easily extensible with Plug-Ins
  
• Re-host SharpDevelop with SDA
  
• … and much more

If you like to see the features in action, then take our Feature Tour.

Home Page : Link

Download : Link

 

[Avtar]

Okay, so it's open source. Joy for the world, let's kill Bill Gates and prove that open source is the new shit.

So?



I don't mean to be rude or anything, but I used SharpDevelop for a few days before realizing that it was much better just using Microsoft's Visual Studio Express Edition which is now free by the way. So yeah, it's aimed at students to use, and it's free and it rocks. They released the 2008 edition in late November I think, so it's better to just stick with Visual Studio.

Experiments knows no bounds, but if you have enough time to toy around with things, SharpDevelop is all for you. And if you seriously want to build some applications and get going, get Visual Studio.