SharpDevelop is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for
.NET Framework applications. It supports the development of
applications written in C#, Visual Basic.NET and Boo. It is open
source and written in C#. It provides all of the features required
from a modern Windows IDE, such as code completion, project
templates, an integrated debugger and a forms designer. It has good
compatibility with Visual Studio Express and Visual Studio 2005 by using
the same project and solution file format.
Here is a quick tour showing you the main features of
SharpDevelop.
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