Download MonoDevelop 2.0

MonoDevelop is an idea that comes from SharpDevelop. MonoDevelop is developed for a Gnome environment on Linux and allows you to program in C# and other .Net languages. Of course it features code completion and a class viewer that allows you to view all classes with their methods and properties in your project. In addition, you can use various add-ins to extend the functionalities of this ide. The developers have released version 2.0 with the following announcement:

MonoDevelop 2.0 Released

The MonoDevelop team is proud to announce the release of MonoDevelop 2.0. MonoDevelop is a GNOME IDE primarily designed for C# and other .NET languages. MonoDevelop enables developers to quickly write desktop and ASP.NET Web applications on Linux. MonoDevelop makes it easy for developers to port .NET applications created with Visual Studio to Linux and to maintain a single code base for all platforms.

This new version of MonoDevelop comes with plenty of new features. Here’s a summary:

• Project management
  • Native support for the MSBuild format, with support for multiple target frameworks, and a new project model which allows managing several solutions at the same time.
  • Per-project/solution policies.
  • Vala support.
• workbench
  • Support for multi-selection in the solution path.
  • Path/document switcher.
  • Go to File dialog with support for acronym matching.
  • New assembly browser.
• web development
  • Better support for code completion.
  • Path bar and document outline.
• Source code editing
  • Improved code completion, with C# 3 support.
  • New managed text editor with support for code folding, split view, color schemes and incremental search bar.
  • vimode support.
  • Document outline path for c# files.
  • Improved XML editing experience.
• Integrated debugger
  • Integration of MDB (for debugging Mono applications) and GDB (for debugging native applications).
  • Improvements in most of the existing features, including Version Control integration, the GTK# visual designer, and many others.