Visual Studio for Linux

Last week, Mainsoft announced a product code-named "Grasshopper" and sold as Visual MainWin for J2EE Developer Edition, which is a plug-in for Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET development tool that allows Visual Studio developers to kick out Web applications for both Windows and Linux platforms.

Mainsoft has partnered with Project Mono, the open source implementation of Microsoft's C# compiler and its related Common Language Runtime (CLR) environment, which is being spearheaded by Novell. What Grasshopper does specifically is expose the ASP.NET and ADO.NET class libraries of Mono to Visual Studio.

The enhancements that Mainsoft and the Mono Project have made to make this possible will be incorporated into Grasshopper as well as the open source Mono code.