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Visual Studio Mono add-on brings .NET apps to Linux, Mac OS X


By David Worthington
November 12, 2009 — 
A new Visual Studio add-on from Novell's Mono project will help developers port .NET applications to Linux and Mac OS X.

Mono Tools for Visual Studio became available this week. It enables developers to deploy and test applications within Visual Studio and isolate incompatibilities between Mono and .NET, and it can package applications for openSUSE and SUSE Linux.

"It has been a pain point for [.NET] developers wanting to do cross-platform development," said Mono product manager Joseph Hill. Program managers will also have a clearer idea of what additional effort will be required to target other platforms, he added.

Mono is a Linux-based implementation of the Common Language Infrastructure, an open specification developed by Microsoft and published under Ecma-335.

Another one of the team's goals is to target Linux appliance building, Hill added. "Windows doesn't do appliances really well."

The Mono team will be adding integration with additional Linux distributions in the future, said project founder Miguel de Icaza.

Mono Tools for Visual Studio works with Visual Studio 2008. The team is working toward having a beta release for Visual Studio 2010 around January, Hill said.

It is available under an individual license for US$99, an enterprise (one developer per organization) license for $245, and a five-developer pack with a commercial license to redistribute Mono for $2,499.


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