Today, we switched from Snitz Forum to Community Server. The main reason for this switch was performance-related: the original forum has outgrown its backend database. We tried to postpone - or put off - that necessary step for long.

One reason was that I originally planned to migrate the data from Snitz to CS, but that turned out to be a rather nasty process (the schemas are way too different, not to speak of user profiles and password storage). So it was decided to leave the old forum up and running in read-only mode, and have all new posts in the new forum.

Matt Ward just recently added support for MSBuild files to the XML Editor inside #develop:

MSBuildCompletion.wmv (2.82 MB)

You can try this feature yourself by downloading the hot off the press #develop Corsavy alpha. Read the announcement I posted in our new forum.

The video about the integrated debugger in #develop 2.0 whetted your appetite? You want to take the current bits for a spin? So here you go, but be warned: the bits you are going to grab are neither stabilized nor heavily tested.

First, read up on repository access in our Wiki:

Using the repository

The checkout command needs to be modified as follows:

svn co svn://sharpdevelop.net/corsavy/trunk SharpDevelop

The bits in the repository currently compile against the .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 2, which can be downloaded freely here. At a minimum, you need the Runtime. SDK is recommended though.

A few more notes: please use the mailing lists for reporting problems etc. Which ones to use are described in the aforementioned Wiki article. These haven't changed from Fidalgo to Corsavy. Please be sure to not only include the error message, but also the steps to reproduce as well as files pertinent to make is reproducible.

Next week we plan to release an alpha binary for those of you who don't want or cannot access our Subversion repository.

This video is a short demonstration of the debugger that is integrated with Corsavy, the version 2.0 of #develop, targetting .NET 2.0. The debugger is being implemented by David Srbecky, and you can read about the debugger in the Wiki. However, you came here for the video, so here you go:

DebuggerInCorsavy.wmv (5.01 MB)

David did a great job to get this beast up and running, and you can expect more features to be added in the near future.

This release does not come with any major new features, this release mostly focuses on stability and we do hope that we finally nailed down the "Can't shutdown" bug in #develop. If you still experience this problem, please visit this thread in our forum. Download

Yesterday's post already hinted at this weekend's event in Bad Ischl, Austria: #d^3. The #develop developer days are a get together for core developers, this year's participants are (in no specific order) Mike, Andrea, Markus, Peter, Christian, Bernhard and myself. Main goal: getting some work done on Corsavy, our version 2.0 #develop.

Here are some photos:

Mike Krüger to the left, Peter (#report) standing in the middle, Markus (VB.NET and lots of other stuff) sitting to the right.

This time, we start from the right: Bernd (Senior Word Wrangler) starting SuSE on his laptop, Andrea (working on the lexer) sitting next to him.

While sitting at #d^3 (#develop developer days) here in Bad Ischl, we dug up the photo that was on the homepage of icsharpcode.net a long time ago:

No big news, but a little detail that makes the console addin more useful: I've added selection support. You can now select text and copy it to the clipboard.

In this video, I show how to use the new Web References feature (contributed just recently by Matt Ward) in #develop 1.1:

WebReferences.wmv (1.89 MB)