So Miguel just let slip on Slashdot that they're working on some very fancy features for Mono and ASP.NET / MVC.

I agree that Visual Studio is a very nice tool.

Luckily the code that you produce with Visual Studio will run on Mono (no recompilations necessary) including code that uses ASP.NET MVC. And with the new support for ASP.NET precompiled sites in Mono (available in Mono 2.4) you do not even need to copy the source code to your target server.

Click "Publish" in visual studio, enter the location for your shared directory, and you have a fully working ASP.NET MVC app running on Linux, without leaving Windows.

We are working on various integration points for Visual Studio that will give developers even more: debugging from Visual Studio remote applications deployed on Linux systems and producing packages ready-for-distribution on Linux. [Miguel on Slashdot]

I doubt that this was a secret to begin with, but it is the first I've heard of this and it excites me greatly. I mean, come on, debugging a Mono hosted ASP.NET application remotely using Visual Studio? It doesn't get better than this!

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