Mainsoft

Grasshopper

Categories:	IDEs - IDE add-ins Interoperability
Latest version:	2.0 Technology Preview
Description:	Visual Studio .NET plug-in, developer edition of Visual MainWin for J2EE, which enables you to use C# or VB.NET to develop, debug and deploy Web applications and Web services that run on Windows, Linux and any Java-enabled platform. Grasshopper supports single-source code development, so you can develop an ASP.NET application that will compile and run on multiple platforms. 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. Features include: - MSIL to Java bytecode compilation - Visual Studio integration - Access to external Java components - Open source .NET Framework: sources are shared with Mono, and compiled to Java bytecode, using the Grasshopper binary compiler.
Added:	2005-06-23
Updated:	2006-09-24
Attributes:	[BuiltForDotNet] [BuilfForDotNet2] [AddIn] [FreeVersionAvailable] [Built for Mono]

Categories:	Interoperability
Description:	Enables developers to create applications for the J2EE platform using Visual Basic .NET or C# as well as ASP.NET and ADO.NET class libraries. Visual MainWin is a complete development solution for J2EE that includes: - A development environment integrated into Visual Studio .NET that can be used to develop, deploy and debug J2EE applications - A set of Java runtime libraries that enable applications developed in VB.NET and C# to run on a J2EE application server Visual MainWin introduces a patent-pending compiler that compiles Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) into standard Java Bytecode.
Added:	2004-02-18
Attributes:	[BuiltForDotNet] [AddIn]