Visual Studio C++ natively running on Linux?

[mattengland]

I realize this question may reflect my extreme ignorance wrt to Visual Studio, but I hope it doesn't hurt to ask:

Do any Linux-native ports of Visual Studio 2005 exist? I see this lone reference:

http://www.theserverside.net/news/th...hread_id=33023

...but I suspect nothing came of it (I also didn't read the thread that closely).

Regardless, does such a beast exist? I mostly want a visual debugger for C++ programs to track multiple threads and do some remote debugging, and I've been told that Visual Studio is the best thing I can find. I much prefer to live on Linux, however, (not to mention we prefer to run our production server apps in Linux, but they also run on Windows and our devs test there for convenience's sake) and would like to find a native-Linux flavor of it. Alas, I run Windows virtual machines in Linux (with VMware) just for these purposes (assuming VS is only Windows based).

For whatever it's worth: I just tried Eclipse-CDT-3.1.1, and I was not pleased with my visual-debugging experience in CDT. Hence I'm asking about VS.

Any other recommendations?

Matt