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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
28 href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=mono">browse
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 @item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches.
117 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-winforms-list/2003-May/000284.html">announced</a>
118 the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a library
119 that can be used dynamically from Mono. This work simplifies
120 the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer necessary
121 have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub program.
122 The patches are available <a
123 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/mono/">here</a>.
125 Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the <a
126 href="download.html">download page</a>.
128 @item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono
130 Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the <a
131 href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse IDE</a> running on top
132 of Mono+<a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a>.
134 A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found <a
135 href="images/ikvm-screenshot.png">here</a>
137 @item May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships
139 We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code
140 generation engine. A list of the new features is available <a
141 href="archive/mono-0.24.html">here</a>.
143 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
144 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
145 We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.
147 @item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
149 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released
150 their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso
151 3.0</a> database system. Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux.
152 On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and
153 ASP.NET. Congratulations to OpenLink for their release.
155 Virtuoso can be downloaded <a
156 href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a>
157 and a demo is available <a
158 href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>.
160 OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
163 Jon Udell wrote a small <a
164 href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a>
166 @item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.
168 Atsushi has created a <a
169 href="http://www24.brinkster.com/ginga/RelaxngValidatingReader/">RelaxNG</a>
170 validating XML reader.
172 There is activity on the <a
173 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono forums</a> and the <a
174 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/">Gtk# Wiki</a>
176 @item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out; Team pages.
178 The first book to cover Mono is out. This book is currently
179 only available in German, you can find it <a
180 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a>
182 We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a>
183 where we include a list of some of the people who have made
184 Mono possible. If you have CVS access, please update the page
185 to include your information.
187 @item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
189 The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
191 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a>
193 Zoltan has commited his <a
194 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed
195 allocation</a> patches to CVS as well.
197 @item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
199 Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
200 <a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool. Screenshots are <a
201 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
203 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>
205 Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
206 module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the <a
207 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>
209 The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
210 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>. Screenshots are
211 <a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>.
213 @item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
215 <a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
216 openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
218 @item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
220 <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue">
223 <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
224 What do you think about Mono?
226 Is your company involved with the development and
227 deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an
228 important part of your company's business application
229 strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
230 project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
231 and the use of Linux in business critical
234 If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
235 would like to talk with you. If interested, please
237 href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
243 @item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
245 Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
246 that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It
247 is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
248 Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
250 @item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
252 A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
253 notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. This is mostly a
254 bug fix release. No new features.
256 @item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
258 Mono 0.22 has been released. See the <a
259 href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix
262 A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
263 has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
265 Martin also announced a <a
266 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
267 release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
269 @item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
271 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
272 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
273 contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
276 Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug
277 fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
278 and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
279 and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the
280 point of running the <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual
283 @item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
285 A new mailing list for <a
286 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
287 Development</a> has been created.
289 @item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
291 Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
292 The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
294 Windows binary is available <a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">here</a>
296 @item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
298 Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
299 href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
300 Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
302 Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
303 handles ASP.NET. The code is available at <a
304 href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
306 Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
307 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
308 tests</a>. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
310 Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
311 momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
313 @item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
315 Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the <a
316 href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
317 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
318 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
319 and performance improvements.
322 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
324 <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
325 binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a
326 href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
328 @item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
330 With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
331 looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
332 of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
334 Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have
335 checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
336 how to complete this process <a
337 href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a
338 href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
339 for further discussion.
341 @item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates.
343 Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
344 Gnome. A screenshot can be seen <a
345 href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available
346 on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
347 straight binding to the C API.
350 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
351 an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
354 We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
355 JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
357 @item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
359 Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
360 as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
361 Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
362 advantage of Unix facilities.
364 A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
366 Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
367 If you want to contribute please read <a
368 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
371 Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
372 improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
373 has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
374 source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
375 (compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed
376 work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
377 generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
379 @item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
381 <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
382 Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
383 announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
385 @item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
388 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
389 release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
391 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
393 @item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
395 Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
396 World Expo. A description is <a
397 href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
400 href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
401 release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
402 shipping that uses Mono.
404 @item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
406 Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
407 href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
408 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
409 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
410 and performance improvements.
412 We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
413 screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
414 there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
415 progress on the documentation browser.
417 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
418 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
420 @item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
422 After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
423 released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
424 debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
425 unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
426 applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
429 Details of the release are available in <a
430 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
432 The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
433 The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
434 by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
435 applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
438 @item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
440 Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
442 MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
443 distribution, and MCS works with it.
445 Zoltan has managed to get <a
446 href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
447 for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
450 @item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
452 Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
453 href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
454 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
456 @item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
458 A new issue of the <a
459 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
460 Weekly News</a> has been published.
462 Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
463 that Sebastien has put together.
465 @item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
467 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
468 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
469 improved this to use implicit names as well.
471 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
472 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
473 per-thread basis now.
475 Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
476 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
477 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
478 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
479 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
481 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
482 statements on the grammar.
484 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
485 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
487 @item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
489 <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
490 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
491 their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
494 <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
495 href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
496 availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
498 Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
499 href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
500 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
501 of their product, also using Mono.
503 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
506 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
507 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
508 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
509 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
511 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
512 and its available from our <a
513 href="download.html">download</a> page.
515 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
517 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
519 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
520 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
521 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
523 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
524 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
525 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
526 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
527 asp.net has been released as well.
529 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
531 This release also includes a new exception handling system
532 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
533 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
535 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
537 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
538 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
539 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
540 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
543 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
544 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
545 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
547 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
550 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
553 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
554 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
555 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
556 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
558 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
559 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
560 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
561 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
562 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
563 server on Unix using Mono.
565 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
566 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
567 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
568 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
570 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
571 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
572 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
573 new test application that people can use to test their
574 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
575 you can participate in the <a
576 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
579 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
580 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
582 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
585 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
586 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
588 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
589 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
590 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
591 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
593 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
595 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
596 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
598 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
599 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
601 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
602 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
603 new technology are <a
604 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
605 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
607 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
608 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
609 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
611 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
612 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
615 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
616 see Windows screenshots for it <a
617 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
618 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
620 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
623 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
624 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
626 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
627 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
628 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
630 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
632 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
633 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
636 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
638 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
639 in Open Office file format.
641 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
643 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
644 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
646 Tim Coleman posted an <a
647 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
648 on the improvements in the System.Data
650 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
651 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
653 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
655 Tim's SqlClient is <a
656 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
657 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
658 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
659 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
661 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
663 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
664 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
665 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
666 been working on the Security classes.
668 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
669 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
670 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
671 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
673 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
674 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
676 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
679 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
680 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
682 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
684 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
687 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
688 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
689 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
690 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
691 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
692 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
694 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
695 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
696 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
697 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
698 list</a> mailing list.
700 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
701 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
702 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
703 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
704 data adapter is also coming soon.
706 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
708 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
709 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
710 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
711 are not supported by the .NET framework.
713 Last week we created a new <a
714 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
715 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
717 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
718 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
721 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
723 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
724 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
725 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
726 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
727 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
728 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
729 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
730 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
731 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
732 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
734 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
735 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
736 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
737 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
738 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
739 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
740 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
741 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
744 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
746 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
747 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
748 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
750 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
751 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
753 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
754 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
755 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
756 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
757 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
758 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
759 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
761 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
762 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
763 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
764 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
765 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
768 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
769 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
770 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
771 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
772 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
773 Documentation Tools</a>.
775 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
777 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
778 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
779 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
780 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
782 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
783 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
784 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
785 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
786 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
787 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
788 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
789 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
790 configuration file `machine.config'.
792 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
794 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
796 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
797 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
798 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
801 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
802 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
803 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
804 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
805 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
807 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
809 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
810 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
812 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
813 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
814 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
815 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
816 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
817 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
820 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
822 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
823 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
824 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
826 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
827 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
828 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
829 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
832 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
834 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
835 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
838 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
840 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
841 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
842 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
845 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
846 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
847 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
848 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
849 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
850 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
853 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
855 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
856 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
857 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
858 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
859 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
860 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
862 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
863 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
864 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
866 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
867 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
868 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
869 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
870 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
871 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
872 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
873 on making a good UI in the future.
875 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
876 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
877 This is the substrate for implementing the
878 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
880 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
881 classes implementation.
883 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
884 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
885 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
886 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
887 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
890 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
893 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
894 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
895 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
896 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
897 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
898 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
899 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
900 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
902 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
905 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
906 announced an Apache module that hosts
907 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
908 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
911 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
913 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
914 released a fresh version of <a
915 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
916 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
918 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
920 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
921 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
922 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
924 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
926 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
927 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
928 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
931 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
932 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
935 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
937 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
939 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
940 on par with the PPC port.
942 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
943 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
944 code for the remoting infrastructure.
946 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
947 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
950 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
952 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
953 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
954 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
955 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
957 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
958 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
959 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
960 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
962 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
963 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
964 for structure marshaling.
966 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
967 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
968 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
969 to integrate with Patrik's code.
971 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
972 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
973 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
975 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
978 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
980 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
981 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
982 a successful free software project.
984 The first, deserved, entry goes to
985 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
986 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
987 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
988 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
992 Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see the olds news.