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With all the talk about SharpDevelop, I decided to download it and try it. WOW, how familiar, 90% the same interface as V.S. 2003. And if you thing that if they didn't have to design an interface, they will have more time to focus on usefull things, then you're wrong. SharpDevelop adds nothing special over Visual Studio 2003 except changing a "project" to a "Combine", adding a wizard to help you setup the code completion wizard, and a "Clown fish" exception in the "about" form.

I would credit SharpDevelop for being more professional than usual Open Source IDEs starting with its descriptive name (unlike Anjuta) and the lack of happy penguins here and there. However, when Microsoft spends the time and money to design a good interface and think of new features like code completion and code folding, I like to be fair to them and use their product instead.