The MonoDevelop team is proud to announce the release of MonoDevelop 1.0 beta 1 (0.16). This is the first in a series of beta releases that will lead to MonoDevelop 1.0, hopefully around the end of the year.

MonoDevelop is a GNOME IDE primarily designed for C# and other .NET languages. This release contains lots of improvements, new features and bug fixes.

The release highlights include:
* Support for C/C++ projects.
* A new Database Add-in.
* Text editor improvements, including on-the-fly error underlining and XML comment tag support.
* Plenty of bug fixes and other improvements.