Today we are releasing MonoDevelop 2.4, which includes plenty of new features and improvements.

The release highlights are:

• Workbench usability improvements, which include a new Navigate to Symbol dialog, Solution and Class pad zooming, better pad layout, and many other look & feel improvements.
• Improvements in project management, with support for standalone assembly projects, and external console support for Windows and Mac.
• Extensive text editor improvements, including in-line search, better code completion with new completion modes, editing support in block selection mode, and new refactoring operations.
• In the debugger, support for pinned quick watches, debug value visualizers, improved expression evaluation and a new exceptions dialog.
• Better support tools, such as a new Hex Editor, integrated T4 Templating and more Code Metrics.
• For web developers: code completion for C# regions in ASP.NET pages, and support for WCF web references.
• Improvements in many other add-ins: NUnit, MonoTouch, Vala and Mac OSX support.

Binaries and source are available from the MonoDevelop Download page.

The team is on #mono, #monodev and #monodevelop on irc.gnome.org fielding any questions you might have.

We are extremely happy to announce Mono Tools for Visual Studio 2.0 Beta 1! (MonoTools)

Mono Tools for Visual Studio is a commercial add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 that enables developers to build, debug, and deploy .NET applications targeting Mono without leaving Visual Studio.

MonoTools 2.0 is a major upgrade from MonoTools 1.1, bringing many new features:

• The Mono soft debugger, for more reliable debugging
• Server profiles, for easier deployment options
• Compressed deployment for faster copying to server
• Full Run/Debug support for Linux, Mac, and Windows

Full details of these features can be found in the Mono Tools for Visual Studio 2.0 Release Notes.

You can Download the 2.0 Beta of Mono Tools for Visual Studio, as well as fully preconfigured Linux VMware or Virtual PC images, from the Mono Tools for Visual Studio download page.

To purchase Mono Tools for Visual Studio, visit our store

Mono Tools for Visual Studio 1.1 has officially been released, containing several of the most requested features, as well as many bugfixes.

Mono Tools for Visual Studio is a commercial add-in for Microsoft™ Visual Studio™ that enables developers to build, debug, and deploy .NET applications targeting Mono from within their preferred IDE.

Along with many bugfixes and small enhancements, the Mono Tools 1.1 update features the following improvements:

• Smarter Remote File Copying
• Automatically Detect Future Updates
• Preview of Visual Studio 2010 Support
• Easier Packaging of Precompiled Web Applications

More details regarding this release can be found in the Mono Tools for Visual Studio 1.1 Release Notes.

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

We have just released Mono 2.6.3, a bug fix release for the Mono 2.6.x series with more than 100 bugs fixed! The Mono 2.6.3 Release Notes include the full details on new features and bug fixes.

Mono 2.6.3 can be downloaded from our download page.