#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 2014 AlphaSierraPapa for the SharpDevelop team.
SharpDevelop is distributed under the MIT license.

The #develop project started on September 11th, 2000. The project was initiated
by Mike Krüger. In the course of the project, several contributors joined in.
If you want to contribute see <https://github.com/icsharpcode/SharpDevelop/wiki/Joining-the-Team>.

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 Vista or higher.
 - .NET 4.5
 - 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
 - .NET 4.5 SDK (part of Windows SDK 8.0)
 - Windows SDK 7.1 (?? not sure if this still is necessary...)
 - 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) - http://avalondock.codeplex.com/
	GraphSharp
	IQToolkit
	Irony
	ITextSharp
	log4net
	Mono T4
	Mono.Cecil: MIT License (thanks to Jb Evain) - https://github.com/jbevain/cecil
	SharpSvn
	SQLite
	WPFToolkit

Integrated Tools (shipping with SharpDevelop):
	IronPython
	IronRuby
	NuGet
	NUnit
	OpenCover - https://github.com/OpenCover/opencover
	WiX

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

SharpDevelop Contributors:
	Mike Krüger (Project Founder)
	Daniel Grunwald (Technical Lead)
	Andreas Weizel
	Matt Ward
	David Srbecky (Debugger)
	Siegfried Pammer
	Peter Forstmeier (SharpDevelop Reports)	
	
	(for a full list see https://github.com/icsharpcode/SharpDevelop/wiki/Contributors)