During my Webcast, I showed three screenshots of Corsavy (our v2.0 running atop v2.0 of .NET), because there is nothing that can be called "alpha" yet.

The Class Browser and Project Scout

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The Bookmark Pad

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The new Search & Replace dialog

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Because the question When will it be available? cropped up during the Webcast, here is my answer: our plans are to release an alpha close to Beta 2 of .NET 2.0. This means a time window of 1 to 2 months after the Beta becomes widely available (there might be some unforeseen problems, and we definitely do not want to underdeliver).

The repository for #ziplib has moved too; its new home is now:

svn://sharpdevelop.net/sharpziplib/trunk

In the wake of the repository move, we released an interim to get rid of the now already rightly infamous SD-297 bug (ObjectDisposedException). You can find it on our download page.

The Subversion repository for #develop Fidalgo has moved, the new repository URL is:

svn://sharpdevelop.net/fidalgo/trunk

The SVN protocol is definitely much faster than WebDAV / Apache.

Together with Uwe Baumann, I will be doing a one hour Webcast (German language) on #develop. The date is set for 17th of January, 4pm CET. You can learn more on the MSDN page .NET-Entwicklung zum Nulltarif mit SharpDevelop. Hope to see a few of our German-speaking users!

Why I wrote #USBLib and why I don't work on #Develop instead? The answer is as simple as obvious: Chamaeleons. I'm getting two Furcifer Pardalis (Pantherchamaeleons) and I want to give them summer/winter cycles. Therefore I needed a control unit ... in my case an old PC does this job. I used the SIS-PM from Gembird (http://www.gembird.com/) a programmable USB power switch (In germany you can get it from pearl). If you're more interrested in chamaelons (but you need to speak german :)) you can visit my page at ambanja.homelinux.org. There you can download the control software too.

After a long enough wait, the first edition of the book is available as a free ebook from the publishing rights holder Apress.

You can find details about the book, links to the download including source code and a list of errata on our book page:

http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/insidesharpdevelop.aspx

Mike did it again - scratching an itch he programmed a .NET wrapper library for usblib. Now you have #usblib at your disposal, a USB library for low-level access to USB ports, working under Win32 / .NET and Linux / Mono.

Our bugtracker now runs on the latest version of Gemini. Sorted out are a few browser issues, caching problems, and we now have full Unicode support in the bug tracker. Of course not to forget full HTML reporting via FreeTextBox. Neat.

#ziplib has been moved from the #develop source tree into a new, separate repository. This is intended to remove restrictions from #ziplib's source tree (ie 'always stable'), because #develop depended on #ziplib - something that doesn't work quite well when two projects are on different release schedules.

The new repository is located at http://svn.sharpwt.net/SharpZipLib/, the usual checkout guidelines apply.