ZDNet: Grasshopper Hops Code from Visual Studio .Net to Linux--For Free | Linux Today

ZDNet: Grasshopper Hops Code from Visual Studio .Net to Linux–For Free

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 24, 2005

“Mainsoft launched a free Visual Studio .Net plug-in called
Grasshopper and a developer community forum for creating Web
applications and Web services that run on Linux, Windows and Java
platforms. Formally titled Visual MainWin for J2EE Developer
Edition, Grasshopper benefits from two years of collaboration by
Mainsoft and the Mono team on Mono’s ASP.NET, ADO.NET, XML, Visual
Basic and .NET class libraries class libraries–about 3.5 million
lines of code, according to Mono leader Miguel de Icaza…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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