Visual Studio 2005 is just beautiful. I'm currently writing ast_mono, which has 2 C projects (that build on Linux), and 1 C# project (that builds with Whidbey). Everything gets deployed on Linux. However, I have my entire dev process available right from VS. The C projects are Makefile projects, and allow a command-line to be specified. Enter Plink, and I'm set. Plink is an Win32 command line SSH client. I just pass in the commands (cd /usr/src/ast_mono/runtime; make clean; make install;) and away it goes. In fact, VS detects when there's an error and shows the errors (from GCC) in the VS task pane.

Only two things I want: file/line info from GCC into VS. GCC outputs errors differently than VS is expecting and thus I can't go right to the file/line of the error. And debugging. I've got no idea how to do cross-platform debugging, let alone with VS integration. I highly doubt this is even possible.

Meanwhile, I'm enjoying my single-step build/deploy process very much.