Editing SharpDevelop (section)

== History ==
On 11 September 2000 Mike Kruger launched the project, while testing the first public release of .NET Framework 1.0. At that time there was no C#/.NET IDE publicly available. So he decided to write a code editor to run the compiler.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/christophwille/archive/2010/09/11/happy-anniversary-10-years-of-sharpdevelop.aspx|title=Happy Anniversary - 10 Years of SharpDevelop|website=Community.SharpDevelop.net|first=Christoph|last=Wille}}</ref>  Early in its development, the project was split for [[Mono (software)|Mono]] and Gtk# development into the [[MonoDevelop]] project, which is maintained as a cross-platform IDE, and after [[Microsoft]]'s acquisition of [[Xamarin]], has become the basis of [[Visual Studio for Mac]].

{{As of|2013|post=,}} SharpDevelop had been downloaded at least 8 million times worldwide,<ref>[http://sourceforge.net/projects/sharpdevelop/files/stats/timeline?dates=2001-01-04+to+2013-12-30 "SharpDevelop Download Stats 2001-01-04 to 2013-12-30"]. SourceForge. (8.1M downloads). Retrieved December 30, 2013.</ref><ref>[http://sharpdevelop.codeplex.com/stats "SharpDevelop (Stats for the project lifetime)"]. CodePlex. (40K downloads). Retrieved December 30, 2013.</ref> The SharpDevelop [[codebase]] was documented in the book ''Dissecting a C# Application: Inside SharpDevelop'' (2003) written by the core development team and published by [[Wrox Press]].<ref name="Holm, Kruger, Spudia" />

On 18 September 2017, Daniel Grunwald of the ICSharpCode team announced the project is "dead" for reasons related to the fast pace of changes to C# and .NET, including [[.NET Core]], and suggested SharpDevelop users switch to either [[MonoDevelop]] or [[Visual Studio Code]] IDEs, each being recommended as a suitable [[open source]] replacement that is the target of regular updates and other maintenance.<ref>[https://github.com/icsharpcode/SharpDevelop/issues/799 "Is the project dead?"] Is the project dead?</ref>