Feature List

Solution Pad

• Shows the file structure of the opened solution. Most of project operations can be done in this pad:
  • Project building
  • Management of project files and folders
  • Version control
  • Editing project references
  • Running custom tools
• Available display options: Show all files, show code-behind files.
• To display the solution pad, click on the View/Solution menu option.

Class Pad

• Shows namespaces, types and members defined in the solution.
• Available display options: Nested namespaces, group by access/member type, show public members only.
• To display the solution pad, click on the View/Classes menu option.

Files Pad

• Allows browsing the file system.
• Basic file and folder management commands.
• To display the solution pad, click on the View/Files menu option.

Error List Pad

• Supports message filtering by type.
• The context menu provides direct access to error documentation.
• To display the solution pad, click on the "View/Error List" menu option.

Task List Pad

• Support for user defined tasks.
• It shows tasks specified in source code using comment tags (FIXME, TODO, ...). Comment tags can be customized (Edit/Preferences/Task List).
• To display the solution pad, click on the "View/Task List" menu option.

Build Output

• Support for output window pinning (avoids overwriting of the output if the project is built again).

Application Output

• Support for output window pinning (avoids overwriting of the output if the project is run again).

Message Log Pad

• Log of internal MonoDevelop messages.

Welcome Page

• Recents list.
• Documentation links.
• Create/Open project commands.

Layouts

• Supports the definition of new layouts of workspace pads and toolbars (View/Layouts).
• Quick layout switch using a selector in the toolbar.

External tools

• The user can define custom tools to be shown in the Tools menu (Edit/Preferences/Tools/External Tools).
• Support for project variables such as project directory, current file name, etc.
• Prompt for arguments.

Configurable Key Bindings

• Support for configurable key bindings (Edit/Preferences/Key bindings).
• Emacs and Visual Studio key bindings schemes.
• User defined key bindings.
• Support for multi-state key bindings.

Building

• Support for 1.1, 2.0 and Moonlight Mono runtimes (Project/Options/General/Runtime Options).
• Support for multiple build configurations.
• Builds required project dependencies.
• Clean and Rebuild commands.
• Assembly signing.
• Command line tool for building: 'mdtool build'.

Run

• Option for running in internal or external console.

Export

• Export a project to a different folder using a different file format:
  • MonoDevelop native file format.
  • Visual Studio 2005.
• Command line tool for exporting projects: 'mdtool project-export'.

Custom commands

• Custom commands can be defined for projects and solutions
• Command hooks: after/before build, clean, execute
• Command replacement: build, clean, execute
• Custom commands: shown in the context menu of the solution pad.

Generic project

• Project type not bound to any language.
• Can be used together with Makefile Integation and Custom Commands.

Find / Replace

• Special search strategies: wildcards, regular expressions.
• Search flags: case sensitive, whole word.
• Search / Replace in files.
• Support for search results list pinning (allows keeping several search results lists at once).

Code Completion

• Code completion of namespaces, types and members.
• 'as' and 'new' completion.
• Method parameter Completion.
• C# compilation directives.

Source Code Tooltips

On-the-fly Error Underlining

Indent Strategies

• Auto indent
• Smart indent for C#

Standard Header

• Allows adding a header to all new files.
• Templates for common licences.

Code templates

• Bind keywords to code templates.
• Keywords can be expanded by pressing TAB in the text editor.
• Different sets of templates can be assigned to different file extensions.

Refactory Operations

• Rename class, field, method, property, event
• Implement interface (explicit or implicit)
• Implement overridable method, property, event

Source Code Navigation

• Go to base class
• Go to declaration of class or member
• Find references to class or member
• Find subclasses
• Quick search of file or type
• Quick navigation of build errors and search results using the Browse Next/Previous command.

Navigation History

• History of source code location.
• Easy navigation through the history.

GTK# Designer

Integrated visual designer for building GTK# interfaces.

• Allows targeting GTK# 2.4, 2.6 and 2.8.
• Supports visual design of custom widgets.
• Support for reusable widget libraries. Custom widgets are shown in the toolbox.
• Dynamic reloading of custom widgets. After compiling a change in a custom widget, all design windows where the widget is being used will be automatically updated.
• Widget library reference tracking. When new widgets are added to a design surface, the required assembly references will be added to the project.
• Visual editing of stock icon factory.
• Glade project import.

Toolbox

• One single toolbox for all designers (GTK#, ASP.NET, etc.)
• New items can be added by registering new assemblies.
• The toolbar is dynamically updated to show the items available for the active file and project.
• Two display modes: normal and compact (with no labels).
• Widget search

Property grid

• One single property grid for all designers (GTK#, ASP.NET, etc.)
• Allows editing project file properties.

Package Generation

• Sources package: MD and Visual Studio formats (zip or tarball).
• Binary package: Linux and Windows targets (zip or tarball).
• Tarball based on Autotools
• Tarball w/o Autotools (simple makefile with a basic configuration script and dependency checking).

Generation and deployment of support files

• .pc file for libraries.
• .desktop for applications.
• launch script.

Packaging Operations

• Packaging project: bundles together a set of packaging sources and targets.
• Create package command: allows creating a package of any of the supported types.
• Install command: installs a solution to the local file system.

Generate makefiles for a solution

• Two kinds of makefiles:
  • based on Autotools
  • w/o Autotools (simple makefile with a basic configuration script and dependency checking).
• Command line tool for generating makefiles: mdtool generate-makefiles.

Makefile Synchronization

• Allows synchronizing the list of files and references between a Makefile and a MonoDevelop project.
• Support for dependencies defined in Autotools files.
• Error and warning message parsing using regexes.

Web Projects

• Create web application for any supported language.
• Compile web application and view in browser using xsp.
• Project GAC references are synchronised to web.config.
• Add new ASP.NET files:
  • Page (.aspx) with/without CodeBehind class (partial if language supports it).
  • User control (.ascx) with/without CodeBehind class (partial if language supports it).
  • Web Service (.asmx) with/without CodeBehind class.
  • Web Handler (.ashx) with/without CodeBehind class.
  • Web.config (application or subdirectory depending where it's added).
  • Master page (.master) with/without CodeBehind class (partial if language supports it) for 2.0 runtime only.
  • Global.asax file with/without CodeBehind class.
• ASP.NET server controls added to aspx files have corresponding members automatically added to the CodeBehind class at compilation time (in the *.designer.* part if using partial classes).

Web References

• Browse for a web service and create web service proxies.
• Update web service proxies.

NUnit Library Project

NUnit Test Project

Tests pad

• Shows the list of tests defined in every project of the solution
• Automatically updated when the solution is compiled.
• Allows setting different configurations of filters based on categories
• Navigation to source code of test cases.

History panel

• Keeps an history of tests runs.
• Graphical view of successul runs and failures.
• Comparison of tests runs. List of regressions.
• Performance chart.

Test results pad

• Allows filtering for successful, failed and ignored tests.
• Filtering of test output.

Native support for Visual Studio 2005 projects

• The following project types can be opened and modified:
  • C#
  • Visual Basic .NET
  • ASP.NET

Import VS 2003 project

• Visual Studio 2003 projects can be imported and converted to the MonoDevelop or VS 2005 file formats.

Subversion

• Publish a project to a repository
• Checkout a project from a repository
• Add files or folders to version control
• Remove files or folders from version control
• Update, get changes from the repository
• Log: visual display of changes done on a file or directory
• Revert changes in a file or folder.
• Status tracking: shows a list of all changes done in a folder, and allows entering a commit message for every change.
• Commit changes: generates a consolided commit message from all documented changes.

ChangeLog integration

• Generation of ChangeLog entries from commit messages.
• Supports updating (or creating) multiple ChangeLog files in a single commit.
• Allows defining commit policies for every project. Commit policies specify the location of ChangeLog files:
  • One single ChangeLog at the root project directory.
  • One ChangeLog per first-level subdirectory.
  • One ChangeLog in every directory.
  • User defined.

For all languages supporting CodeDOM

• Empty project
• Library
• Web application
• Empty web application.
• NUnit library

C#

• GTK# project.
• Empty project
• Library
• Web application
• Empty web application.
• NUnit library

Visual Basic

• Console project
• Empty project
• Library
• Web application
• Empty web application.
• NUnit library

Boo

• Console project
• Empty project
• Library
• Web application
• Empty web application.
• NUnit library

Java (IKVM)

• Console project
• Empty project
• Library

C/C++

• Empty project
• Shared library
• Static library
• Console project

Other projects

• Translation project
• Generic project
• Blank solution

Project build tool

• mdtool build

Project conversion tool

• mdtool project-export

Makefile generator tool

• mdtool generate-makefiles

Add-in setup utility

• mdtool setup

Graphical add-in setup utility

• mdtool gsetup