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6 <a href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> announced the
7 launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an open source
8 implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
10 Mono includes: <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
11 C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">runtime</a> for the
12 Common Language Infrastructure (also referred as the CLR) and a
13 set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>. The
14 runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your
17 Mono has implementations of both <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a>
18 and <a href="asp-net">ASP.NET</a> as part of its distribution.
20 You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
21 this project. If you have questions about the project, please
22 read our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
23 Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact us.</a>
25 You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
26 source</a> for our work so far. Grab a <a
27 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our current work, or <a
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32 href="mailing-lists.html">subscribe</a> to our mono-list
33 and mono-announce-list. There is also a <a
34 href="http://www.gotmono.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl">forum</a> at <a
35 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono</a>.
37 You can contact the team at: <a
38 href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">mono-list@ximian.com</a>
40 In order to follow the process of the project and to learn more
41 about the team members we have created the <a
42 href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/index.html">Mono Weekly News letter</a>.
43 Which archives can be found <a
44 href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/archives.html">here</a>.
45 We have a <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk# Wiki</a>
46 and a <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono Wiki</a>
53 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
58 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
61 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
79 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM<br>
85 <td><b><a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a></b></td>
86 <td>Webforms working<br></td>
90 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
93 All assemblies compile.
101 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
106 <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshots</a>
114 <b><center>In the news</center></b>
119 <img src="images/netmagazine.png">
122 <a href="http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2003_TE/magazine/columns/trends/default.asp">May 31st, 2003</a>: CLI integration.
127 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
130 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">May 22nd, 2003</a>: Mono 1.0 plans.
135 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
138 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">Mar 14th, 2003</a>: Whither Mono?
143 <img src="images/b2.png">
146 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">Dec, 2002</a>: The Penguin takes flight.
154 @item Jul 4th, 2003: Coverage Analysis
156 Zoltan's Coverage analysis tool has been checked into CVS.
157 With this tool it is now possible to find which class library
158 code paths are missing regression tests. The module is
159 `monocov'. Details are <a
160 href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz/">here</a>
163 @item Jun 26th: Mono 0.25 has been released.
165 We have released Mono 0.25. A list of the new features is
166 available <a href="archive/mono-0.25.html">here</a>.
168 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
169 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
171 @item Jun 17th, 2003: Web Services client; Profiling hooks
173 Lluis and Gonzalo have checked into CVS the support for web
174 services in the Mono runtime. This allows Mono to work as a
175 web services client. We still require a WSDL compiler to
176 compile the initial stub, but Erik has the beginning of a WSDL
177 compiler ready and Atsushi has continued work on his
178 experimental Xml Schema to C# class generator.
180 As part of this, the Mono Http runtime has been rewritten to
181 increase reliability, scalability and conformance to the
182 specs. Also our io-layer has been extended to not have
183 arbitrary limits. This was done as part of our collaboration
186 Paolo has commited the new pluggable profiling API to the Mono
187 runtime: now the profiler is built as a module, and a new code
188 coverage analysis has been checked in (and Zoltan already
189 added improvements to it).
191 Mark's Mozilla bindings continue to improve, and we will shortly
192 migrate the Mono documentation browser to use Mozilla, to take
193 advantage of the tutorial's use of CSS.
195 Jackson's work on the IL assembler and Ben on running
196 regression tests have provided us with a very needed tool in
197 the Mono toolkit. One of the last missing pieces on the SDK.
199 On the crypto world, we got Sebastien's certificate viewer
200 checked into CVS and the crypto code keeps advancing by leaps
203 Alexandre and Aleksey Work continues on Windows.Forms on top
204 of Wine and Gtk# (the former for full compatibility, the later
205 for ease-of-authoring).
207 Cesar checked in the beginning of the semantic analysis code
208 for his JScript compiler, and will be working on it full time.
210 @item Jun 11th, 2003: SourceGear and Ximian announce partnership
212 Ximian, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and server
213 solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption, today announced
214 that SourceGear Corporation will use Mono\x{2122} Project
215 technology to offer cross-platform versions of its
216 products. In addition, the companies have entered into a
217 development partnership under which Ximian® will provide
218 custom Mono development to enable delivery of SourceGear
219 products later this year. As a result, SourceGear will offer
220 both UNIX and Linux clients for its SourceGear Vault source
221 code management tool, enabling broader use of its solutions in
222 mixed-platform development organizations.
224 <a href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=sourcegear">Read more...</a>
226 Some technical details are available <a
227 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-June/014334.html">here</a>.
229 @item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches.
232 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-winforms-list/2003-May/000284.html">announced</a>
233 the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a library
234 that can be used dynamically from Mono. This work simplifies
235 the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer necessary
236 have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub program.
237 The patches are available <a
238 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/mono/">here</a>.
240 Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the <a
241 href="download.html">download page</a>.
243 @item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono
245 Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the <a
246 href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse IDE</a> running on top
247 of Mono+<a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a>.
249 A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found <a
250 href="images/ikvm-screenshot.png">here</a>
252 @item May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships
254 We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code
255 generation engine. A list of the new features is available <a
256 href="archive/mono-0.24.html">here</a>.
258 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
259 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
260 We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.
262 @item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
264 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released
265 their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso
266 3.0</a> database system. Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux.
267 On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and
268 ASP.NET. Congratulations to OpenLink for their release.
270 Virtuoso can be downloaded <a
271 href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a>
272 and a demo is available <a
273 href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>.
275 OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
278 Jon Udell wrote a small <a
279 href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a>
281 @item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.
283 Atsushi has created a <a
284 href="http://www24.brinkster.com/ginga/RelaxngValidatingReader/">RelaxNG</a>
285 validating XML reader.
287 There is activity on the <a
288 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono forums</a> and the <a
289 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/">Gtk# Wiki</a>
291 @item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out; Team pages.
293 The first book to cover Mono is out. This book is currently
294 only available in German, you can find it <a
295 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a>
297 We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a>
298 where we include a list of some of the people who have made
299 Mono possible. If you have CVS access, please update the page
300 to include your information.
302 @item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
304 The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
306 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a>
308 Zoltan has commited his <a
309 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed
310 allocation</a> patches to CVS as well.
312 @item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
314 Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
315 <a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool. Screenshots are <a
316 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
318 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>
320 Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
321 module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the <a
322 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>
324 The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
325 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>. Screenshots are
326 <a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>.
328 @item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
330 <a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
331 openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
333 @item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
335 <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue">
338 <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
339 What do you think about Mono?
341 Is your company involved with the development and
342 deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an
343 important part of your company's business application
344 strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
345 project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
346 and the use of Linux in business critical
349 If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
350 would like to talk with you. If interested, please
352 href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
358 @item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
360 Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
361 that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It
362 is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
363 Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
365 @item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
367 A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
368 notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. This is mostly a
369 bug fix release. No new features.
371 @item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
373 Mono 0.22 has been released. See the <a
374 href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix
377 A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
378 has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
380 Martin also announced a <a
381 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
382 release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
384 @item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
386 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
387 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
388 contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
391 Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug
392 fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
393 and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
394 and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the
395 point of running the <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual
398 @item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
400 A new mailing list for <a
401 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
402 Development</a> has been created.
404 @item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
406 Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
407 The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
409 Windows binary is available <a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">here</a>
411 @item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
413 Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
414 href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
415 Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
417 Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
418 handles ASP.NET. The code is available at <a
419 href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
421 Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
422 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
423 tests</a>. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
425 Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
426 momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
428 @item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
430 Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the <a
431 href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
432 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
433 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
434 and performance improvements.
437 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
439 <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
440 binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a
441 href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
443 @item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
445 With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
446 looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
447 of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
449 Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have
450 checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
451 how to complete this process <a
452 href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a
453 href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
454 for further discussion.
456 @item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates.
458 Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
459 Gnome. A screenshot can be seen <a
460 href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available
461 on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
462 straight binding to the C API.
465 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
466 an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
469 We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
470 JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
472 @item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
474 Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
475 as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
476 Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
477 advantage of Unix facilities.
479 A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
481 Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
482 If you want to contribute please read <a
483 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
486 Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
487 improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
488 has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
489 source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
490 (compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed
491 work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
492 generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
494 @item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
496 <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
497 Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
498 announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
500 @item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
503 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
504 release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
506 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
508 @item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
510 Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
511 World Expo. A description is <a
512 href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
515 href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
516 release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
517 shipping that uses Mono.
519 @item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
521 Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
522 href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
523 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
524 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
525 and performance improvements.
527 We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
528 screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
529 there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
530 progress on the documentation browser.
532 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
533 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
535 @item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
537 After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
538 released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
539 debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
540 unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
541 applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
544 Details of the release are available in <a
545 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
547 The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
548 The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
549 by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
550 applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
553 @item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
555 Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
557 MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
558 distribution, and MCS works with it.
560 Zoltan has managed to get <a
561 href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
562 for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
565 @item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
567 Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
568 href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
569 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
571 @item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
573 A new issue of the <a
574 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
575 Weekly News</a> has been published.
577 Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
578 that Sebastien has put together.
580 @item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
582 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
583 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
584 improved this to use implicit names as well.
586 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
587 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
588 per-thread basis now.
590 Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
591 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
592 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
593 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
594 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
596 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
597 statements on the grammar.
599 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
600 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
602 @item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
604 <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
605 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
606 their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
609 <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
610 href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
611 availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
613 Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
614 href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
615 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
616 of their product, also using Mono.
618 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
621 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
622 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
623 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
624 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
626 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
627 and its available from our <a
628 href="download.html">download</a> page.
630 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
632 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
634 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
635 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
636 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
638 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
639 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
640 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
641 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
642 asp.net has been released as well.
644 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
646 This release also includes a new exception handling system
647 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
648 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
650 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
652 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
653 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
654 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
655 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
658 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
659 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
660 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
662 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
665 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
668 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
669 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
670 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
671 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
673 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
674 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
675 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
676 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
677 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
678 server on Unix using Mono.
680 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
681 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
682 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
683 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
685 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
686 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
687 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
688 new test application that people can use to test their
689 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
690 you can participate in the <a
691 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
694 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
695 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
697 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
700 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
701 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
703 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
704 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
705 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
706 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
708 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
710 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
711 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
713 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
714 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
716 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
717 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
718 new technology are <a
719 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
720 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
722 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
723 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
724 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
726 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
727 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
730 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
731 see Windows screenshots for it <a
732 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
733 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
735 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
738 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
739 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
741 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
742 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
743 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
745 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
747 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
748 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
751 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
753 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
754 in Open Office file format.
756 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
758 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
759 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
761 Tim Coleman posted an <a
762 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
763 on the improvements in the System.Data
765 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
766 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
768 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
770 Tim's SqlClient is <a
771 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
772 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
773 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
774 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
776 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
778 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
779 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
780 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
781 been working on the Security classes.
783 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
784 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
785 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
786 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
788 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
789 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
791 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
794 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
795 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
797 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
799 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
802 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
803 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
804 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
805 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
806 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
807 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
809 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
810 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
811 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
812 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
813 list</a> mailing list.
815 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
816 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
817 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
818 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
819 data adapter is also coming soon.
821 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
823 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
824 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
825 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
826 are not supported by the .NET framework.
828 Last week we created a new <a
829 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
830 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
832 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
833 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
836 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
838 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
839 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
840 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
841 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
842 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
843 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
844 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
845 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
846 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
847 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
849 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
850 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
851 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
852 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
853 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
854 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
855 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
856 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
859 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
861 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
862 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
863 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
865 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
866 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
868 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
869 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
870 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
871 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
872 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
873 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
874 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
876 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
877 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
878 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
879 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
880 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
883 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
884 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
885 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
886 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
887 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
888 Documentation Tools</a>.
890 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
892 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
893 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
894 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
895 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
897 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
898 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
899 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
900 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
901 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
902 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
903 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
904 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
905 configuration file `machine.config'.
907 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
909 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
911 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
912 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
913 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
916 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
917 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
918 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
919 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
920 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
922 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
924 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
925 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
927 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
928 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
929 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
930 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
931 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
932 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
935 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
937 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
938 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
939 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
941 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
942 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
943 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
944 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
947 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
949 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
950 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
953 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
955 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
956 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
957 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
960 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
961 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
962 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
963 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
964 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
965 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
968 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
970 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
971 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
972 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
973 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
974 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
975 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
977 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
978 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
979 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
981 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
982 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
983 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
984 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
985 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
986 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
987 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
988 on making a good UI in the future.
990 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
991 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
992 This is the substrate for implementing the
993 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
995 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
996 classes implementation.
998 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
999 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
1000 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
1001 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
1002 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
1005 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
1008 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
1009 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
1010 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
1011 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
1012 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
1013 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
1014 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
1015 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
1017 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
1020 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
1021 announced an Apache module that hosts
1022 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
1023 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
1026 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
1028 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
1029 released a fresh version of <a
1030 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
1031 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
1033 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
1035 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1036 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1037 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
1039 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
1041 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
1042 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
1043 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
1046 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
1047 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
1050 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
1052 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
1054 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
1055 on par with the PPC port.
1057 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
1058 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
1059 code for the remoting infrastructure.
1061 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
1062 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
1065 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
1067 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
1068 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
1069 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
1070 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
1072 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
1073 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
1074 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
1075 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
1077 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
1078 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
1079 for structure marshaling.
1081 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
1082 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
1083 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
1084 to integrate with Patrik's code.
1086 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
1087 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
1088 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
1090 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
1093 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
1095 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
1096 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
1097 a successful free software project.
1099 The first, deserved, entry goes to
1100 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
1101 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
1102 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
1103 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
1107 Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see the olds news.