I've made some pretty cool changes to Monitored Actor that help expand it's capabilities. The main being the ability to override the UI. This lets you do cool things like create a web based actor monitor, or run the monitor window in the runtime environment. I also added Actor Labels to help you identify running actors.
Check out our Monitored Actor 2.0 article for more info!
If you're at NI week, be sure to checkout the presentation by Brandon Steele on Thursday (1:30 in room 16B). He'll be covering the Monitored Actor as well as some other tips for developers of large application (like MGI Solution Explorer, Class Method Browser and Actor Framework Message Maker)