Mono Tools for Visual Studio 1.0 has officially been released.

Support for developing and debugging Mono applications from within Microsoft Visual Studio has been a feature requested from the .NET developer community since very early in the project.s history. While our own MonoDevelop continues to grow in features in adoption, we also understand that developers working in Visual Studio today are in no rush to leave behind their current IDE and favorite Visual Studio add-ins.

Mono Tools integrates several key pieces of functionality directly into Visual Studio.s menu system:

• Analyze for Mono Migration - Scan open projects for compatibility with Mono while developing, and navigate directly to issues from the Error List within Visual Studio
• Run on Mono on Windows - Test against Mono on Windows to isolate issues arising from differences between Mono and .NET.
• Run on Mono on Linux - Deploy and run your application on Mono on Linux with minimal effort.
• Debug on Mono on Linux - Remotely debug your application running on the target platform

In addition to these features that improve the day-to-day experience of developing with Mono, this release incorporates a few additional features to aid in deployment of .NET applications on Mono.

• Package for Linux - Visually create a RPM installer packages for SUSE and openSUSE Linux for your .NET application
• Create a SUSE Linux Appliance - Use SUSE Studio to bundle your application into a Linux appliance for simplified distribution to your users.

To see the full functionality of the add-in, check out the full tutorial of taking an ASP.NET application through each feature from Analyze to Appliance.

You can Download a free, fully-functional 30-day trial of Mono Tools for Visual Studio, as well as fully preconfigured VMware or Virtual PC images, from the Mono Tools for Visual Studio download page.

To purchase Mono Tools for Visual Studio, visit our store

MonoTouch - Mono for iPhone is now available. This is a commercial product, to buy it, visit the MonoTouch Store.

A refresh of the Mono 2.4.2.3 Framework Installer for Mac has been released. The only change in this release is a new version of GTK+ that resolves a number of known issues in MonoDevelop, including redraw bugs, control-click functionality, and Mac keybindings for standard GTK+ widgets. The GTK+ build uses a branch of GTK+ 2.17.9 maintained by Christian Hergert, sponsored by Unity.

You can find it on the downloads section.

We are doing a preview/beta release of MonoTouch (Mono for the iPhone) this week (August 5th/August 6th) and are looking for developers that might be interested in trying out the API, the IDE plugin and the development pipeline.

If you are interested in participating, please fill out the form.

You can browse the source code for the sample widget catalog built using the MonoTouch.UIKit .NET binding to Cocoa's UIKit.

This release fixes issues with precompiled websites.

See the release notes for more details.

Due to an oversight on our part, Mono 2.4.2 did not actually bundle ASP.NET MVC. This mistake has been corrected. Mono 2.4.2.1 is a release that merely includes the prepackaged source for ASP.NET MVC.

Today Microsoft announced that they were going to apply the Community Promise patent licensing to the ECMA C# and ECMA CLI standards.

Mono 2.4.2 has been released, this is a maintenance release for Mono 2.4 and contains over 150 bug fixes. It can be downloaded from our downloads page.

This version is the first version to integrate Microsoft's open source ASP.NET MVC stack.

Check the release notes for more details.

Mono Tools for Visual Studio have been released to a limited number of developers for a closed preview cycle.

This first release of the Mono tools integrates four major pieces of new functionality into Visual Studio:

• Scan for Mono Compatibility (MoMA integration) - The integrated Mono Migration Analyzer (MoMA) can scan open projects for incompatibilities and guide you to directly to them, making it easy to find and work through issues as you develop.
• Run on Mono on Windows - Testing against Mono on Windows can help isolate issues arising from differences between Mono and .NET.
• Run on Mono on Linux - Testing against Mono on Linux helps work through issues that could be caused by differences in Windows and Linux.
• Debug on Mono on Linux - Often, the best way to work through an issue will be to debug the application on the target environment. Debug on Mono on Linux brings this functionality to Visual Studio developers by enabling remote debugging of Mono applications running on Linux.

If you are interested in joining the program during the next wave of invitations, please visit the Mono Tools for Visual Studio website, and follow the "Sign Up!" link.

Novell has released a new product based on Mono 2.4, the SUSE Linux Enterprise Mono Extension, which provides commercial support for running .NET applications on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

This includes hosting your ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX and ASP.NET MVC applications on an Apache web server allowing your .NET code to run side-by-side with other Web stack and open source technologies.

The Enterprise Mono Extension provides access to both commercial and open source databases including Microsoft's SQL server, Oracle, PostgresSQL, MySQL, Sqlite and VistaDB.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise Mono Extension is available for x86 and x86-64 platforms as well as the IBM s390x mainframe.

More details can be found on Novell's Mono product page

Telerik is one of the most famous provider of controls for .NET. We have been working for the past few months with Telerik to make sure that their RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX product worked out of the box with Mono:

Today Telerik announced the availability of their product officially for Mono-based customers on Linux systems. From their press release:

Telerik, the leading vendor of development tools and components for the Microsoft .NET platform announced that RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX fully supports the Mono runtime environment, an open source .NET framework sponsored by Novell, tailored for development of Linux applications. The Telerik AJAX UI components is the first major commercial user interface (UI) suite to go cross-platform and allows developers to build rich .NET applications in a Linux environment.

“This has been a long-awaited feature, which we have been quietly working on for quite some time. Over the past few months, we have been actively testing the compatibility of our RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX offering with Mono", said Hristo Kosev, Telerik CTO. "We are extremely happy that our joint work with Novell will allow customers to build compelling high-performance ASP.NET AJAX-based applications and run them on Linux using Mono 2.4.”

The decision to work with Novell to extend the capabilities of RadControls over other platforms is in direct response to customer feedback and interest in Mono. Telerik and Novell are optimistic about the effect their partnership will have on the industry and the benefits it will bring to .NET developers.

Telerik is a major player in the control space in the .NET world and many developers turn to them for ready to use controls for their applications. Developers that were previously using Telerik products can now host their products on Linux servers.

Special thanks go to Marek Habersack in the Mono team who worked tirelessly to fix Mono's ASP.NET stack. Working with the Telerik folks was a pleasure. Telerik helped us by providing us access to their source code, their test suite and their QA team that made sure that their thousands of tests ran equally well on Mono as they did on Microsoft's .NET.

You can try the Telerik controls running on Mono at http://mono.telerik.com/.

Today we announced the release of both the Mono 2.4 platform and the MonoDevelop 2.0.

Mono's 2.4 grand release has finally arrived.

See our detailed release notes covering both the 2.4 launch and the changes since Mono 2.2.

Or you can go directly and download Mono 2.4 for your platform.

Mono's 2.2 grand release has finally arrived.

See our detailed release notes covering both the 2.2 launch and the changes since Mono 2.0.

Or you can go directly and download Mono 2.2 for your platform.

The Gtk# GUI toolkit version 2.12.6 is now available for .NET on Windows and can be downloaded from http://mono-project.com/Downloads.

With the new installers, it is possible to run on Windows/.NET applications created with Gtk# on Linux and MacOS X.