Free Alternative to visual Studio.net c#
Visual Studio.net developers who are looking for a good and cheaper open source alternative that delivers the same look and feel of visual studio.net.

#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 source code and executables.











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Product Features
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.

• Creating Windows Applications
• Visually Designing Forms
• Code Completion
• Code Generation
• Refactoring
• XML Comments
• Code Navigation
• Debugging
• Converting Code between Languages
• Unit Testing
• Code Coverage
• Editing XML
• Targeting Different Frameworks
• Creating Boo Applications

Additional Product 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 want to read more about the product and its latest releases then visit this link

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