I’m working in ASP.NET (C#) more and more these days on the new sites I’m building, and I have to admit, it’s an awesome way to develop. I hated (HATED!) it at first because the Micro$oft Visual Studio is such a pain to work in. It’s okay if you want just to drag controls around in a visual environment, but if you really want to get into the code-behind, there’s so much clicking, compiling, and flipping tabs to see if it worked. Web-development for me has always been a process of try-it/see-if-it-worked because I’m never doing something I know how to do…and I like it that way 
Anyhow, once I got working in Notepad2 with an ASCX file open in front of me, it all fell into place. I only crack open Visual Studio when I need to compile a DLL these days.
Anyhow, I was psyched to see people working on a good open-source IDE for .NET. Their features so far look pretty complete. I’m going to definitely going to try it out. Can’t be any worse than Visual Studio 
#develop (short for SharpDevelop) is a free IDE for C#, VB.NET and Boo projects on Microsoft’s .NET platform. It is open-source, and you can download both sourcecode and executables from this site.
