SharpDevelop vs OpenPDN

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SharpDevelop		OpenPDN
	Project
5	Mentions	2
1,696	Stars	152
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
over 4 years ago	Latest Commit	over 9 years ago
C#	Language	C#
-	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

SharpDevelop

Posts with mentions or reviews of SharpDevelop. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-30.

SharpDevelop dark mode
1 project | /r/csharp | 24 Feb 2022

SharpDevelop is a dead project, https://github.com/icsharpcode/SharpDevelop/issues/799
Open source desktop applications list
13 projects | /r/csharp | 30 Dec 2021

SharpDevelop and MonoDevelop are both dead and focused for devs which gives them different priority than apps targeted at non-devs, but they show how to put together seriously complex apps, and they're the ancestor of the Visual Studio for Mac.
Alternate wpf treeview implementations
2 projects | /r/dotnet | 27 Oct 2021

You should try SharpTreeview. Haven’t had any issues with it for large treeviews
Can I make IDE using C#?
1 project | /r/learnprogramming | 3 Jun 2021

Yes
PoshGUI is no longer free
1 project | /r/PowerShell | 24 Mar 2021

I've also used this for its WPF editor https://github.com/icsharpcode/SharpDevelop but I dont know if it does WinForm

OpenPDN

Posts with mentions or reviews of OpenPDN. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-18.

Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Sep 2023
Open source desktop applications list
13 projects | /r/csharp | 30 Dec 2021

Paint.NET was open source, it's the most beautiful and responsive non-devs oriented .NET desktop app I have ever encountered.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing SharpDevelop and OpenPDN you can also consider the following projects:

MonoDevelop - MonoDevelop is a cross platform .NET IDE

cairoshell - Cairo is a customizable, intuitive desktop environment for Windows.

Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code

snoopwpf - Snoop - The WPF Spy Utility

Visual Studio Community - GitHub Extension for Visual Studio

ProtobufDecoder - A Google Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) payload decoder/analyzer

RoslynPad - A cross-platform C# editor based on Roslyn and AvalonEdit

ShareX - ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.

AvalonStudio - Cross platform IDE and Shell

Waf DotNetPad - The Waf DotNetPad is a simple and fast code editor that makes fun to program with C# or Visual Basic.

aseprite - Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool (Windows, macOS, Linux)