SharpDevelop - an alternative to VisualStudio?
Undoubtedly, for every developer there are favorite tools that he will not exchange for anything. Microsoft's Visual Studio for many is the de facto standard with its huge set of tools and various features. Recently I came across an analogue of Visual Studio - the development environment for .NET SharpDevelop ( SharpDevelop ). SharpDevelop is fully written in C # and is open source, supports C #, Visual Basic, Boo. It is possible to convert the source code of projects between these languages. A very interesting feature is the support of the Mono runtime environment for * Nix-systems ( Mono project ), although unfortunately there is no form designer for Gtk #.
A short list of SharpDevelop features:
* Syntax highlighting for C #, HTML, ASP, ASP.NET, VBScript, VB.NET, XML.
* Visual editor for WinForms forms (COM components are not supported).
* Integrated support for NUnit, MbUnit and NCover.
* Integrated support for the FxCop assembly analyzer.
* Integrated debugger (uses its own libraries).
* Integrated SVN support.
* Code converter between C #, VB.NET and Boo languages.
* Preview documentation obtained from documentary comments.
* Extensibility with external tools.
* Extensibility based on Add-Ins mechanism.
The current release of SharpDevelop is SharpDevelop 2.2. On December 15, SharpDevelop 3.0 Beta 3 was released. Personally, this environment captivated me with its compactness and speed. I can’t say that SharpDevelop is a Visual Studio call, but I can safely name an alternative. While I work in it and feel comfortable.
PS Here I found a screencast for SharpDevelop: Screencast
A short list of SharpDevelop features:
* Syntax highlighting for C #, HTML, ASP, ASP.NET, VBScript, VB.NET, XML.
* Visual editor for WinForms forms (COM components are not supported).
* Integrated support for NUnit, MbUnit and NCover.
* Integrated support for the FxCop assembly analyzer.
* Integrated debugger (uses its own libraries).
* Integrated SVN support.
* Code converter between C #, VB.NET and Boo languages.
* Preview documentation obtained from documentary comments.
* Extensibility with external tools.
* Extensibility based on Add-Ins mechanism.
The current release of SharpDevelop is SharpDevelop 2.2. On December 15, SharpDevelop 3.0 Beta 3 was released. Personally, this environment captivated me with its compactness and speed. I can’t say that SharpDevelop is a Visual Studio call, but I can safely name an alternative. While I work in it and feel comfortable.
PS Here I found a screencast for SharpDevelop: Screencast