Novell Inc. releases Mono Tools for developers drawing on Visual Studio 2.0

A leading infrastructure software provider Novell Inc has released Mono Tools meant for Visual Studio 2.0 – the latest adaptation of open-source tool for developers for using Visual Studio for designing, coding as well as sustaining multi-platform applications. The recently released Mono Tools 2.0 incorporated the latest Mac OS X support. The Mono Tools 2.0 is actually an incorporated element for the integrated development environment (IDE) of Visual Studio 2.0 that helps in building .NET applications for UNIX, Linux and Mac OS X. In addition, Mono Tools also facilitates lessening the period and expenses for developing multi-platform applications, thereby, allowing independent software vendors (ISCs), corporate developers as well as development services providers to increase their market prospects faster and offering them development choices. Moreover, Mono Tools 2.0 allows .NET developers to control their present skill sets as well as a wide-ranging .NET ecosystem of libraries, code, and tools to build or port applications to UNIX, Linux or Mac OS X. Quoting a statement released by Novell regarding the new technology, an online report says the key new attribute of Mono Tools 2.0 is backing for Mac OS X. Novell Manager in-charge of Mono product, Joseph Hill, said that all the features of Mono Tools for building, installing and debugging applications on Linux have presently been made available to developers aiming at Mac OS X from in the IDE directly. According to Hill, Mono Tools 1.0 was focused on developing applications on Linux, especially SUSE Linux. Now, with the release of Mono Tools 2.0, they have been able to provide the developed what they have been wanting, particularly support for Mac OS X. Therefore, Mono Tools 2.0 now endorses development as well as debugging on Mac OS X, he added. Hill further said that the latest Mono Tools meant for Visual Studio 2.0 also supports Mono on Windows. This technology provides the easiest configuration which a .NET developer working on Mono can grasp quickly. The new adaptation of Mono can also be installed faster by compacting resources and installing merely the files that have altered, which significantly decreases the time used between developing and testing. Hence, it helps in lessening the waiting time considerably for a developer between writing and validating a solution. The other attributes incorporated in Mono Tools 2.0 comprise a debugger engine that allows developers to debug applications operating on the newest version of Mono on PowerPC and 390x. Presently, the Mono Tools 2.0 is available in three versions – Professional Edition ($99), Enterprise Edition ($249) and the Ultimate Edition ($2,499). A one-year subscription update for products comes free with all these versions.