This is a big day for Miguel de Icaza and the Mono team with the announcement of the release of Mono Tools for Visual Studio. This release has features for deploying to Linux from Visual Studio, remotely debugging code on Linux from Visual Studio, a tool called for evaluating your code for migration issues moving between .NET and Mono, and moving from shipping applications to shipping appliances — complete virtual machines with the application already installed and ready to go. More details and links…

Other coolness from Mono. If you happened to miss the September 2009 announcement, MonoTouch is now available as a commercial product that lets you create iPhone and iPod Touch applications written in C# and .NET. Scott Hansleman discussed MonoTouch, among other things, with Mono project manager Joseph Hill on Hanselminutes podcast #181, well worth checking out.