derStandard.at: What do you have in store for the next major release?

Miguel de Icaza: In terms of the API, we will make the core and ASP.NET be 2.0 implementations. Other pieces like 2.0 Windows.Forms will be part of a future release.

There are three major developments outside of the API tracking:

* The Mono Debugger.
* The Stetic GUI designer.
* The MonoDevelop IDE reaching 1.0

One interesting bit is that all of those technologies will be tied in the 1.0 release of MonoDevelop.

For some people, the lack of a debugger has been a big turnoff and we hope to finally fix this problem.

That lack of a debugger has been critical. This makes me unbelievably happy! I write many tools in C# on Linux using Monodevelop but I'd use it more if they fixed these things:

-GUI Designer that produces Windows.Forms code! I know you can do it! I can take GUI projects from VS2005 and they compile and work just fine in Mono. Don't make me use this Stetic stuff! There is no need for it for simple GUIs and I don't want to force Windows people to download a GUI framework to look at my proof of concept.

-Better VS2005 Solution/Project support! I've never had even the most basic VS2005 solution/project import properly. Ever. And what saving a project as a VS solutions/project? So often I take code home from the office, drink some redbull, hack some code, and then take it back to work. And basically forget going from Monodev -> VS. I have to rebuild the project/solutions by hand. This needs to get fixed!

-Inline web development - I don't need a designer, but creating websites for using mod_mono and Apache inside of Monodev would kick major ass.