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