SharpDevelop 2 vs Microsoft Visual Studio Express

For those who are thinking about whether you'd like to choose between SharpDevelop 2 and Microsoft Visual Studio Express Edition, here is a comparison table between those two.

Hope it's useful :)

Taken from here

Feature	SharpDevelop 2.1	Visual Studio Express Editions
Code auto-completion	Yes	Yes
Code syntax highlighting	Yes	Yes
Windows Forms Designer	Yes	Yes
Web Forms Designer	No	Provided with Visual Web Developer
Code Coverage	Yes	No
Unit Testing	Yes	No
Languages Supported	C#, VB.NET, Boo	C#, C++, VB.NET, J#
Help documentation	No	Yes
Plug-in support	Yes	No explicit support for plug-ins however third party plug-ins can work with the Express edition.
Insert PInvoke Signatures	Yes	No
Testing Regular Expressions	Yes	No
Class View	Yes	Yes
Solution Explorer	Yes	Yes
Project and Solution File Format	MSBuild	MSBuild
Web references	Yes	Yes
Refactorings	Rename	Rename, Extract Method
Go to definition	Yes	Yes
Find References	Yes	Yes
Code generation	Yes. Not as powerful as Visual Studio's Code Snippet Manager.	Yes
Object Browser	Yes	Yes
Database Explorer	Yes. Lacking support for many database providers.	Yes
Publishing	No	Yes
Data Sources View	No	Yes
Add Data Source Wizard	No	Yes
Document Outline View	No	Yes
Resources	Local only	Local and project
ActiveX Toolbox Items	Partial - need to generate .NET interop library	Yes
Integrated debugger	Yes	Yes
Targeting different .NET frameworks	Yes	No
Code Completion for different .NET frameworks	Yes	No
Reporting	Yes	Yes through the report viewer plug-in
Task List	Yes	Yes
Error List	Yes	Yes
Database Designer Tools	No	Yes
Code conversion	Yes	No
Integrated NAnt support	Yes	No
Integrated WiX support	Yes	No
Integrated FxCop support	Yes	No
Navigation History	Yes	Yes
XPath Queries	Yes	No
Incremental Search	Yes	Yes
XML documentation preview and generation	Yes	No