Limitations of sharpDevelop

Question

I am looking in to using sharpDevelop to develop Windows (.NET) applications over using Visual Studio. I'm just wondering if there are any serious limitations to using SharpDevelop over VS? The price is certainly right and at first glance it seems like a pretty decent IDE. I'm just wondering if it is compatible with VS. I mean if I am collaborating with other developers that are using VS, can we seamlessly pass projects/solutions back and forth and work on them? Just wondering what people's opinions are.

Answer 1

Past year I start using SharpDevelop to develop a large application.

Based on my experience, I can say these are some advantages in using it:

1. It's faster than Visual Studio; if your project is pretty large, you have to spend less time waiting for the project to compile

2. It's free

One important disadvantage I've found is the lack of a good refactoring system, in Visual Studio I used Jetbrains Resharper for its great refactoring support.

Now I've returned to use Visual Studio, just for the facilities offered by Resharper.