This video explains how you can write a SharpDevelop addin that provides a tab page "Preview" that displays .html files.

Tutorial2.wmv (3.25 MB, 07:25 m)

The video starts with opening the AddIn created in tutorial 1, so make sure you watch that first.

I hope these tutorials will help some developers getting started with AddIn development so SharpDevelop 2 will have a number of AddIns available.

This video explains how to create an AddIn for SharpDevelop 2.0:

Tutorial1.wmv (5.2 MB, 05:19 m)

It is the first part of a series that will demonstrate some example AddIns and how to create them. The next parts will be based on the AddIn we set up in here, so make sure you follow the steps!

A page in the wiki contains the full list of the tutorials published so far.

EDIT: Note that the repository URL has changed since the video has been recorded. The new address is svn://sharpdevelop.net/sharpdevelop/trunk

Make sure you check out the contributor blogs. Just recently, Matt blogged about Mono integration (here and here), targetting different framework versions, as well as NAnt integration in SharpDevelop 2.0.

Revision 549 adds support to use older versions of the C# compiler with SharpDevelop 2.0.

In the "Compiling" options page of the project, you can set the version you want to use. If you use anything else than "Default (.NET 2.0)", SharpDevelop will modify the project file to use a custom MsBuild target file from the SharpDevelop directory that allows you to specify a different compiler version and reference older versions of mscorlib and the System libraries.

If you want to use MsBuild.exe in the command line to compile your projects, you will now need to specify the directory where SharpDevelop is installed:

"MsBuild /property:SharpDevelopBinPath=C:\Programs\SharpDevelop\2.0\bin"

I have now added a backend binding for the language Boo to SharpDevelop 2.0.

Boo is a new object-oriented statically typed programming language for the .NET Framework with a Python-inspired syntax and a special focus on language and compiler extensibility.

The most important feature - compiling - is not yet supported because currently there is no MsBuild task for Boo. Code completion is already implemented using the parser of the Boo compiler with a custom resolver using SharpDevelop's type system. Because BooBinding is implementing SharpDevelop's parser and resolver interfaces, all the new features like tooltips, find references etc. work for Boo, too.

Code completion for Boo's type inference (a feature that C# 3.0 and VB 9 will get) is already implemented, at least for local variables. You can expect that code completion support will be extended during the next weeks and support for compiling Boo applications inside the IDE will be added.

A Boo forms designer might be coming, too.

When moving to the latest dasBlog version, we also set up a dedicated host for the team blog. This will make it easier for us to run the sites with different versions of ASP.NET.

Yesterday, we have released builds for the 1.1 series, as well as another standalone setup for the 2.0 alpha. The former can be downloaded from our download page, the latter is only available on our sf.net download page.

This video is a quick introduction to the new bookmarks, search & replace, go to, help system, classes pad and some refactoring inside SharpDevelop 2.0:

QuickTourOfCorsavy.wmv (4.67 MB)

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.