This freely available Visual Studio .NET® plug-in from Mainsoft delivers ASP.NET and .NET server applications for Linux® and other Java™-enabled platforms. Use C# and Visual Basic.NET to code, develop, debug and deploy Web applications and Web services that run on Microsoft Windows®, Linux and other Java-enabled platforms. Grasshopper supports single source code development, so you can develop an application that will compile and run on both .NET and Java-enabled servers. Grasshopper bundles the Apache Tomcat application server and PostgreSQL database, so you get a complete cross-platform Visual Studio development environment for any platform running Apache Tomcat.

The Enterprise Edition enables C# and Visual Basic .NET developers to rapidly develop and maintain Web and server applications that run natively on J2EE servers, Windows or both. Developer and production support from Mainsoft are available exclusively in the Enterprise Edition, which supports application deployment on multi-CPU servers running fully-featured J2EE application servers, including WebSphere®, WebLogic®, and JBoss®.

The Grasshopper 2.0 Technology Preview introduces support for Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2005 IDE and the .NET Framework 2.0. Test drive the cross-platform development experience using the 2005 IDE, C# 2.0 features and the new ASP.NET controls.

We all know and love the Visual Studio .NET IDE, but did you know that you can use it to build Web and server applications that run on Linux? Discover how, in this article.

Use Visual Studio .NET to build an n-tier Web application, in this case a Web mail portal, and then migrate it to a Linux-based server in just 10 minutes!

Using Visual MainWin for J2EE, take this reference application from Microsoft and run it on Tomcat for J2EE under Linux in just a few minutes.

In this article you will learn how to use C# or VB.NET in your cross-platform applications to write and debug JMS messaging applications using the Visual Studio .NET development environment.