I was setting up Monodevelop on my laptop just now and noticed something rather interesting:

[ebuild R ] dev-util/monodevelop-0.15 USE=”aspnet aspnetedit firefox java seamonkey subversion -boo”

There’s ASP.NET in the USE flags now. Therefore, I can make the following assumptions:

Mono supports the development of ASP.NET on a Linux box. Therefore Mono supports the ASP.NET language. Therefore writing websites in ASP.NET can now be used in Linux (to an extent).

My biggest complaint with my webhost was they were running Linux boxes. Obviously there’s plenty of upsides to this, but the biggest drawback was I wanted .NET support. I can’t code PHP worth crap, but I can make a decent ASP.NET page.

Looks like my dream just came true. Looks like I really can start developing some decent pages on my current host.

~Jaker

Update: After doing some research, it looks like I can’t install mono on my webserver. Well, I could, but then there’s a very good chance my account would be suspended because I was running a persistent process. And since I’m on good terms with my hosting company (since November 2005!), I don’t think I want to change any of that.

Time for a different plan!