SharpDevelop - The Open Source Development Environment for .NET
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#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 from this site.
The features we like most…
* 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
Sources: www.sharpdevelop.net/
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