Mainsoft this week announced general availability of a plug-in to Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 IDE for the Mainsoft C++ application porting platform. The plug-in links the company's Visual MainWin for Unix and Linux, Version 5.1.1 to Visual Studio. Visual MainWin enables ISVs to port C++ applications to a multitude of platforms, including Solaris, IBM AIX and Linux variants from Red Hat and Suse. With the plug Mainsoft this week announced general availability of a plug-in to Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2005 IDE for the Mainsoft C++ application porting platform.The plug-in links the company’s Visual MainWin for Unix and Linux, Version 5.1.1 to Visual Studio. Visual MainWin enables ISVs to port C++ applications to a multitude of platforms, including Solaris, IBM AIX and Linux variants from Red Hat and Suse. With the plug-in, ISVs can use Microsoft’s development environment to develop functionalities for Visual C++ applications and deploy these applications on Windows, Linux and Unix. Version 5.1.1 offers a single code base to support both 32- and 64-bit requirements, new operating systems and compilers. Technology Industry