#develop (short for SharpDevelop) is a free IDE for .NET programming languages. Website: http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/Default.aspx Forums: http://community.sharpdevelop.net/forums/ Nightly builds: http://build.sharpdevelop.net/BuildArtefacts Copyright 2012 AlphaSierraPapa for the SharpDevelop team License: SharpDevelop is distributed under the LGPL. The #develop project started on September 11th, 2000. The project was initiated by Mike Krüger. In the course of the project, several contributors joined in. If you want to contribute see http://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/JoiningTheTeam.ashx. Overview #develop (short for SharpDevelop) is a free Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for C#, VB.NET, Boo, IronPython, IronRuby and F# projects on Microsoft's .NET platform. It is written (almost) entirely in C#, and comes with features you would expect in an IDE plus a few more. How To Compile SharpDevelop can be compiled using the supplied .bat files, or in SharpDevelop itself. System Requirements (running SharpDevelop) - Windows XP SP2 or higher. - .NET 4 prerequisites (might be already installed, e.g. by Windows Update): - Windows Installer 3.1: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=889482FC-5F56-4A38-B838-DE776FD4138C&displaylang=en - Windows Imaging Component: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8E011506-6307-445B-B950-215DEF45DDD8&displaylang=en#filelist - .NET 4.0 Full (Extended, the "Client" portion is not sufficient) - Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Runtime (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=A5C84275-3B97-4AB7-A40D-3802B2AF5FC2&displaylang=en) Extended Requirements (building SharpDevelop) - .NET 3.5 SP1 - Windows SDK 7.1 - Windows SDK 7.0 (optional; C++ compiler needed for profiler) - Windows PowerShell - if you have cloned the SD git repository: git must be available on your PATH Libraries and integrated tools: AvalonDock: New BSD License (BSD) (thanks to Adolfo Marinucci) GraphSharp IQToolkit Irony ITextSharp log4net Mono T4 Mono.Cecil: MIT License (thanks to Jb Evain) SharpSvn SQLite WPFToolkit Integrated Tools (shipping with SharpDevelop): Boo IronPython IronRuby NuGet NUnit PartCover Wix Reusable Libraries (developed as part of SharpDevelop): AvalonEdit Debugger.Core ICSharpCode.Core ICSharpCode.Decompiler NRefactory SharpTreeView WPF Designer SharpDevelop Contributors: Mike Krüger (Project Founder) Daniel Grunwald (Technical Lead) Matt Ward David Srbecky (Debugger) Siegfried Pammer Peter Forstmeier (SharpDevelop Reports) (for a full list see http://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/Contributors.ashx)