Mono Tools for Visual Studio allow cross-platform remote debugging

Ok, the Mono team has announced the release of their Mono Tools for Visual Studio which really picks up on your ability (as a Windows-based .Net developer) to target Linux and Mac for application deployment.

So, yeah: no thanks to Microsoft (well, not directly, anyway), Visual Studio is sort-of a cross-platform development tool now.

Not only do these tools allow you to target your .Net development to Mono (which runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and more), you can actually deploy to Linux and debug remotely from Visual Studio. The simplest way, of course, is to just debug it in a virtual machine with Linux on it … but it will work even on remote machines (which it finds via universal plug-an-play).

The Novell Mono team is also making a big deal about turning your shipping applications into shipping appliances using SUSE Studio, and they’ve enabled you to do it straight from Visual Studio — personally, I’m not even a little interested .

As a side note: if you’re thinking about wanting to do this, and deploy cross-platform, you need to be thinking about it ahead of time, because the Mono platform is still missing some pieces of the .Net Framework (most notably, WPF), and has a few components that are actually better than what’s available from Microsoft.

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