This is an update to the previous post on the venue where the Mono Meeting will be held.

We apologize for the inconvenience, we have updated the location of the event once again he Royal Sonesta Hotel in Boston.

The hotel is close to the Kendall T stop and is easily accessible.

Mainsoft, a long time contributor to the Mono project, today announced the release of the Grasshopper 2.0 technology preview, which introduces support for Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 IDE and the .NET Framework 2.0. The preview will enable C# developers to use the Visual Studio 2005 IDE, the new C# 2.0 features, and the new ASP.NET 2.0 controls to quickly develop Web applications that run on Tomcat and can be deployed on Linux and other Java-enabled platforms.

Noam has a detailed description here and downloads are availble here.

Grasshopper now uses Cecil for doing the CLI to JVM translation as well. Developers can also use the Grasshopper 2.0 Technology Preview to port the Microsoft Personal Web Site Starter Kit to run on Tomcat.

We finally have a location for the upcoming Mono Summit in Boston: The event will be held at Marriot Long Wharf Hotel in Boston, MA on October 23 and 24th.

This is located close to the Aquarium T stop in Boston.

If you are coming, please register in advance and if you wish to connect with other Mono summit attendees, you can list yourself in our our public Wiki.

My boss today suggested that we should have some kind of reception, am thinking we could have a "Welcome Meeting" on Sunday evening for those arriving to the city, and maybe some small soire on Monday and maybe some parting drinks for Tuesday. Anyways, if you got some awesome idea about what to do with 80-100 C# developers, drop me a line.

MonoDevelop 0.12 is now available.

This release main features are: an action-based menu and toolbar editor in the Gtk# designer plus a new contextual toolbar for editing; It is now also possible to use MonoDevelop to edit ASP.NET web pages from MonoDevelop.

Other features include: a Deployment system to generate packages and tarballs; support for the autotools toolchain (generate autoconf, automake templates); Support for multiple file name encodings and many bug fixes.

Complete release notes are here. Directions for the packages are in the Download page.

MonoDevelop 0.12 is now available.

This release main features are: an action-based menu and toolbar editor in the Gtk# designer plus a new contextual toolbar for editing; It is now also possible to use MonoDevelop to edit ASP.NET web pages from MonoDevelop.

Other features include: a Deployment system to generate packages and tarballs; suppotr for the autotools toolchain (generate autoconf, automake templates); Support for multiple file name encodings and many bug fixes.

Complete release notes are here. Directions for the packages are in the Download page.