I believe in developing on the platform that the application will run on, right now all of my code runs on Windows Servers so it makes sense to develop on Windo

I believe in developing on the platform that the application will run on, right now all of my code runs on Windows Servers so it makes sense to develop on Windows in a VM. In the last 6 months I have been investigating moving my application to Mono and running on Linux servers, when that happens I will use Mono and MonoDevelop exclusively for that project. Of course other client projects I will still use VMWare and Visual Studio since they will be deployed on Windows. The reason I didn't look at Mono earlier is that I had dedicated Windows boxes and didn't see a benefit in moving, now that I am on EC2 there is a price motivation to move. Running in a VM is not a big deal, most .NET developers I know do all their client development in a VM even if they are running Windows.