Brady Anderson has released the first version of his multicast
DNS responder written in C# for the Mono and .NET platforms.
This is the foundation for implementing rendezvous-like
functionality in your applications. [via Mono Project News]
This is an example of Open Source adding a critical
pieces of infrastructure to .NET that doesn't currently exist (in a
sense an embrace and extend). The community isn't waiting for a
.NET Frameworks implementation to clone, instead it has implemented
this using Mono, which by implication means availability under
Microsoft .NET.