Novell announces Mono Tools for Visual Studio 2.0

WALTHAM, USA:  Novell has recently announced the availability of Mono Tools for Visual Studio 2.0 to facilitate the development of .NET applications for Linux, UNIX and Mac OS X within Microsoft Visual Studio.

Aimed at .NET developers, new module for Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE), Mono Tools help developers to utilize familiar Visual Studio environments to design, code and maintain multi-platform applications.

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Mono Tools for Visual Studio 2.0 includes:

*Support for Mac OS X: All of the features Mono Tools has provided for development, deployment and debugging of applications running on Linux are now fully available to developers targeting Mac OS X from directly within the IDE.

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 * Support for Mono on Windows: Providing the simplest configuration for quickly getting a .NET developer working with Mono, Mono Tools makes it easy to test, debug and isolate issues on Mono without the overhead of switching between operating systems.

* Faster time to deployment: By compressing resources and deploying only the files that have changed, time between building and testing is decreased multi-fold, greatly reducing the time a developer has to wait between writing and verifying a solution.

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"With this next generation of Mono Tools for Visual Studio, Novell continues to offer developers the best experience in Visual Studio for targeting Linux," said Miguel de Icaza, Mono project founder and Developer Platform vice president at Novell.

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"Having the ability to work within a familiar operating system, leveraging existing skill-sets and tools, enables our customers and partners to streamline the development process to take applications to new markets in a more timely, cost effective manner," he added.

Additional features available in Mono Tools 2.0 include a new debugger engine that enables developers to debug applications running on the latest versions of Mono on non-x86 hardware architectures.