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.