MonoDevelop 2.0 Released (oh and Mono 2.4 too… )

Mono Project - Mono 2.4 and MonoDevelop 2.0 have been released

“Today we announced the release of both the Mono 2.4 platform and the MonoDevelop 2.0.” [GD: Post Leached in Full]

MonoDevelop - MonoDevelop 2.0 Released

“The MonoDevelop team is proud to announce the release of MonoDevelop 2.0.

MonoDevelop is a GNOME IDE primarily designed for C# and other .NET languages. MonoDevelop enables developers to quickly write desktop and ASP.NET Web applications on Linux. MonoDevelop makes it easy for developers to port .NET applications created with Visual Studio to Linux and to maintain a single code base for all platforms.

New Features

Summary

This new version of MonoDevelop comes with plenty of new features. Here is a summary:

• Project management
  • Native support for the MSBuild format, with support for multiple target frameworks, and a new project model which allows managing several solutions at the same time.
  • Per-project/solution policies.
  • Vala support.
• Workbench
  • Support for multi-selection in the solution pad.
  • Pad/document switcher.
  • Go to File dialog with support for acronym matching.
  • New assembly browser.
• Web development
  • Better support for code completion.
  • Path bar and document outline.
• Source code editing
  • Improved code completion, with C# 3 support.
  • New managed text editor with support for code folding, split view, colour schemes and incremental search bar.
  • vi modes support.
  • Document outline pad for c# files.
  • Improved Xml editing experience.
• Integrated debugger
  • Integration of MDB (for debugging Mono applications) and GDB (for debugging native applications).
• Improvements in most of the existing features, including Version Control integration, the GTK# visual designer, and many others.

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Mono Project - Release Notes Mono 2.4

“Mono 2.4 is a portable and open source implementation of the .NET framework for Unix, Windows, MacOS and other operating systems.

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Major Highlights

This is a released focus on stability and performance and it is also the foundation for Novell's own long-term support Mono-based product.

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This is a case where getting Mono is good!  :)

 

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