#develop (short for SharpDevelop) is a free IDE for .NET programming languages.
Website: http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/Default.aspx
Forums: http://community.sharpdevelop.net/forums/
Nightly builds: http://build.sharpdevelop.net/BuildArtefacts

Copyright 2012 AlphaSierraPapa for the SharpDevelop team
License: SharpDevelop is distributed under the LGPL.

The #develop project started on September 11th, 2000. The project was initiated
by Mike Kr�ger. In the course of the project, several contributors joined in.
If you want to contribute see http://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/JoiningTheTeam.ashx.

Overview
#develop (short for SharpDevelop) is a free Integrated Development Environment
(IDE) for C#, VB.NET, Boo, IronPython, IronRuby and F# projects on Microsoft's
.NET platform. It is written (almost) entirely in C#, and comes with features 
you would expect in an IDE plus a few more.

How To Compile
SharpDevelop can be compiled using the supplied .bat files, or in SharpDevelop itself.

System Requirements (running SharpDevelop)
 - Windows XP SP2 or higher.
 - .NET 4 prerequisites (might be already installed, e.g. by Windows Update):
   - Windows Installer 3.1: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=889482FC-5F56-4A38-B838-DE776FD4138C&displaylang=en
   - Windows Imaging Component: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8E011506-6307-445B-B950-215DEF45DDD8&displaylang=en#filelist
 - .NET 4.0 Full (Extended, the "Client" portion is not sufficient)
 - Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Runtime (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=A5C84275-3B97-4AB7-A40D-3802B2AF5FC2&displaylang=en)
 
Extended Requirements (building SharpDevelop)
 - .NET 3.5 SP1
 - Windows SDK 7.1
 - Windows SDK 7.0 (optional; C++ compiler needed for profiler)
 - Windows PowerShell
 - if you have cloned the SD git repository: git must be available on your PATH
 
Libraries and integrated tools:
	AvalonDock: New BSD License (BSD) (thanks to Adolfo Marinucci) 
	GraphSharp
	IQToolkit
	Irony
	ITextSharp
	log4net
	Mono T4
	Mono.Cecil: MIT License (thanks to Jb Evain) 
	SharpSvn
	SQLite
	WPFToolkit

Integrated Tools (shipping with SharpDevelop):
	Boo
	IronPython
	IronRuby
	NuGet
	NUnit
	PartCover
	Wix

Reusable Libraries (developed as part of SharpDevelop):
	AvalonEdit
	Debugger.Core
	ICSharpCode.Core
	ICSharpCode.Decompiler
	NRefactory
	SharpTreeView
	WPF Designer

SharpDevelop Contributors:
	Mike Kr�ger (Project Founder)
	Daniel Grunwald (Technical Lead)
	Matt Ward
	David Srbecky (Debugger)
	Siegfried Pammer
	Peter Forstmeier (SharpDevelop Reports)
	
	(for a full list see http://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/Contributors.ashx)