According to Miguel de Icaz ( here and here ) and the Lluis Sanchez Gual post ( here and here ), MonoDevelop for Windows will be ready soon. Personally, I am very interested in using MonoDevelop under Windows to develop open source projects for ASP.NET MVC. Yes, it’s better to work in MonoDevelop under Linux, but for many reasons I can’t just stop using Windows (one of these reasons is IIS7 - today it is much better for ASP.NET than for XSP).
Question N1: Does anyone try to try something in ASP.NET MVC using MonoDevelop on Windows when it is released?
Question N2: Are there any advantages to using MonoDevelop on Windows, and not in Visual Web Developer Express 2008?
Question N3: Both IDEs (MonoDevelop and VWD Express) are free, but which are actually preferable / better for open source development and why (is it very interesting for me)?
Edition:
Yes, I am using the full Visual Studio 2008 Pro and the excellent IDE. But it cannot be used for open source development - I think this is absurd. I really paid for it, but I cannot expect this from users of my library. Therefore, can I choose only Mono Develop or VWD Express? (see Question N3 )
thanks