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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
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25 You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
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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 and WebServices 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 19th, 2003: Recent developments
156 Since Mono has matured, we have limited the news on the site
157 to major accomplishments that are finished, but this week, it
158 is worth devoting some time to talk about some of the
159 work-in-progress projects that are progressing.
161 Jackson has added support to the IL assembler for generics as
162 well as to the PEAPI library, and it has assembled its first
163 generic program. Support for handling images with generics
164 has been on our file format reader for a while, but the JIT
165 engine is still incomplete.
167 On the XSLT world, Atsushi and Ben continue to make big
168 improvements. Ben recently got the prototype managed XSLT
169 implementation to run its first stylesheet. Although
170 currently Mono uses libxslt to implement the System.Xml.Xsl
171 namespace, to have a fully .NET compliant implementation we
172 will need a managed version, and this is the beginning of it.
174 Lluis recently posted an update on the <a
175 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001550.html">state
176 of WSDL</a> in Mono. Now that the web services runtime is
177 ready, the WSDL compiler becomes more important as a
180 Atsushi continues his work on the DTD validating reader in
181 System.Xml, as well as improving our XML Schema support.
183 @item Jul 14th, 2003: New build system; IPV6 support.
185 Peter Williams has contributed a new build system that
186 addresses many of the annoyance we had with our previous build
187 system. He has worked on this for a few weeks, and Gonzalo
188 helped test it and get it into CVS. We no longer have the
189 historical dual build system: make for Unix and nant for
192 This system also offers the opportunity to compile our class
193 libraries with different profiles (.NET 1.0, .NET 1.1 and the
194 various ECMA subsets).
196 Peter explains the new build system <a
197 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001506.html">here</a>
199 Jerome's IPV6 code has been checked into CVS; With Peter's new
200 build system, we will be able to expose it (as part of the
203 @item Jul 9th, 2003: ASP.NET web services, coverage tools.
205 Web Services keep advancing: now we also support server-side
206 authoring of Web Services as well as web service clients
207 (which shipped in Mono 0.25). This works using our ASP.NET
208 runtime, so it works with either XSP or the Apache module. The
209 new Web Services work from Lluis added the missing bits:
212 <li> Method calls with complex parameters (whatever XmlSerializer can currently serialize, which is a quite a lot).
213 <li> ref and out parameters.
214 <li> Soap headers (In, Out and InOut).
215 <li> Soap extensions, both global (configured in web.config) and particular to methods (configured using attributes).
218 For more details, see Lluis <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001449.html">post</a>
220 GUI-wise: Work on <a href="http://xr.xwin.org">Xr</a> to
221 implement System.Drawing continues. This will provide a full
222 GDI+ implementation for Mono, and this will be hooked up into
223 Gtk# and System.Windows.Forms.
225 MonoDoc keeps moving along, with a new web-based version
226 coming up next, and we are also exploring a collaborative
227 extension to allow people to contribute documentation through
230 Zoltan's Coverage analysis tool has been checked into CVS.
231 With this tool it is now possible to find which class library
232 code paths are missing regression tests. The module is
233 `monocov'. Details are <a
234 href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz/">here</a>. A fresh Gtk#
235 version is available now.
237 Jean's remoting-based Soap implenentation is also maturing.
239 @item Jun 26th: Mono 0.25 has been released.
241 We have released Mono 0.25. A list of the new features is
242 available <a href="archive/mono-0.25.html">here</a>.
244 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
245 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
247 @item Jun 17th, 2003: Web Services client; Profiling hooks
249 Lluis and Gonzalo have checked into CVS the support for web
250 services in the Mono runtime. This allows Mono to work as a
251 web services client. We still require a WSDL compiler to
252 compile the initial stub, but Erik has the beginning of a WSDL
253 compiler ready and Atsushi has continued work on his
254 experimental Xml Schema to C# class generator.
256 As part of this, the Mono Http runtime has been rewritten to
257 increase reliability, scalability and conformance to the
258 specs. Also our io-layer has been extended to not have
259 arbitrary limits. This was done as part of our collaboration
262 Paolo has commited the new pluggable profiling API to the Mono
263 runtime: now the profiler is built as a module, and a new code
264 coverage analysis has been checked in (and Zoltan already
265 added improvements to it).
267 Mark's Mozilla bindings continue to improve, and we will shortly
268 migrate the Mono documentation browser to use Mozilla, to take
269 advantage of the tutorial's use of CSS.
271 Jackson's work on the IL assembler and Ben on running
272 regression tests have provided us with a very needed tool in
273 the Mono toolkit. One of the last missing pieces on the SDK.
275 On the crypto world, we got Sebastien's certificate viewer
276 checked into CVS and the crypto code keeps advancing by leaps
279 Alexandre and Aleksey Work continues on Windows.Forms on top
280 of Wine and Gtk# (the former for full compatibility, the later
281 for ease-of-authoring).
283 Cesar checked in the beginning of the semantic analysis code
284 for his JScript compiler, and will be working on it full time.
286 @item Jun 11th, 2003: SourceGear and Ximian announce partnership
288 Ximian, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and server
289 solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption, today announced
290 that SourceGear Corporation will use Mono\x{2122} Project
291 technology to offer cross-platform versions of its
292 products. In addition, the companies have entered into a
293 development partnership under which Ximian® will provide
294 custom Mono development to enable delivery of SourceGear
295 products later this year. As a result, SourceGear will offer
296 both UNIX and Linux clients for its SourceGear Vault source
297 code management tool, enabling broader use of its solutions in
298 mixed-platform development organizations.
300 <a href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=sourcegear">Read more...</a>
302 Some technical details are available <a
303 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-June/014334.html">here</a>.
305 @item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches.
308 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-winforms-list/2003-May/000284.html">announced</a>
309 the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a library
310 that can be used dynamically from Mono. This work simplifies
311 the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer necessary
312 have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub program.
313 The patches are available <a
314 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/mono/">here</a>.
316 Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the <a
317 href="download.html">download page</a>.
319 @item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono
321 Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the <a
322 href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse IDE</a> running on top
323 of Mono+<a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a>.
325 A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found <a
326 href="images/ikvm-screenshot.png">here</a>
328 @item May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships
330 We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code
331 generation engine. A list of the new features is available <a
332 href="archive/mono-0.24.html">here</a>.
334 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
335 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
336 We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.
338 @item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
340 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released
341 their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso
342 3.0</a> database system. Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux.
343 On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and
344 ASP.NET. Congratulations to OpenLink for their release.
346 Virtuoso can be downloaded <a
347 href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a>
348 and a demo is available <a
349 href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>.
351 OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
354 Jon Udell wrote a small <a
355 href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a>
357 @item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.
359 Atsushi has created a <a
360 href="http://www24.brinkster.com/ginga/RelaxngValidatingReader/">RelaxNG</a>
361 validating XML reader.
363 There is activity on the <a
364 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono forums</a> and the <a
365 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/">Gtk# Wiki</a>
367 @item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out; Team pages.
369 The first book to cover Mono is out. This book is currently
370 only available in German, you can find it <a
371 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a>
373 We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a>
374 where we include a list of some of the people who have made
375 Mono possible. If you have CVS access, please update the page
376 to include your information.
378 @item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
380 The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
382 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a>
384 Zoltan has commited his <a
385 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed
386 allocation</a> patches to CVS as well.
388 @item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
390 Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
391 <a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool. Screenshots are <a
392 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
394 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>
396 Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
397 module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the <a
398 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>
400 The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
401 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>. Screenshots are
402 <a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>.
404 @item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
406 <a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
407 openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
409 @item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
411 <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue">
414 <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
415 What do you think about Mono?
417 Is your company involved with the development and
418 deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an
419 important part of your company's business application
420 strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
421 project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
422 and the use of Linux in business critical
425 If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
426 would like to talk with you. If interested, please
428 href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
434 @item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
436 Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
437 that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It
438 is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
439 Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
441 @item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
443 A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
444 notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. This is mostly a
445 bug fix release. No new features.
447 @item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
449 Mono 0.22 has been released. See the <a
450 href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix
453 A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
454 has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
456 Martin also announced a <a
457 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
458 release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
460 @item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
462 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
463 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
464 contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
467 Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug
468 fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
469 and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
470 and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the
471 point of running the <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual
474 @item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
476 A new mailing list for <a
477 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
478 Development</a> has been created.
480 @item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
482 Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
483 The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
485 Windows binary is available <a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">here</a>
487 @item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
489 Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
490 href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
491 Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
493 Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
494 handles ASP.NET. The code is available at <a
495 href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
497 Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
498 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
499 tests</a>. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
501 Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
502 momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
504 @item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
506 Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the <a
507 href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
508 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
509 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
510 and performance improvements.
513 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
515 <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
516 binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a
517 href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
519 @item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
521 With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
522 looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
523 of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
525 Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have
526 checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
527 how to complete this process <a
528 href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a
529 href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
530 for further discussion.
532 @item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates.
534 Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
535 Gnome. A screenshot can be seen <a
536 href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available
537 on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
538 straight binding to the C API.
541 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
542 an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
545 We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
546 JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
548 @item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
550 Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
551 as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
552 Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
553 advantage of Unix facilities.
555 A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
557 Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
558 If you want to contribute please read <a
559 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
562 Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
563 improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
564 has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
565 source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
566 (compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed
567 work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
568 generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
570 @item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
572 <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
573 Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
574 announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
576 @item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
579 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
580 release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
582 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
584 @item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
586 Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
587 World Expo. A description is <a
588 href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
591 href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
592 release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
593 shipping that uses Mono.
595 @item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
597 Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
598 href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
599 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
600 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
601 and performance improvements.
603 We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
604 screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
605 there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
606 progress on the documentation browser.
608 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
609 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
611 @item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
613 After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
614 released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
615 debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
616 unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
617 applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
620 Details of the release are available in <a
621 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
623 The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
624 The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
625 by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
626 applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
629 @item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
631 Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
633 MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
634 distribution, and MCS works with it.
636 Zoltan has managed to get <a
637 href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
638 for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
641 @item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
643 Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
644 href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
645 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
647 @item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
649 A new issue of the <a
650 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
651 Weekly News</a> has been published.
653 Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
654 that Sebastien has put together.
656 @item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
658 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
659 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
660 improved this to use implicit names as well.
662 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
663 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
664 per-thread basis now.
666 Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
667 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
668 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
669 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
670 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
672 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
673 statements on the grammar.
675 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
676 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
678 @item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
680 <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
681 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
682 their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
685 <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
686 href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
687 availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
689 Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
690 href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
691 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
692 of their product, also using Mono.
694 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
697 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
698 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
699 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
700 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
702 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
703 and its available from our <a
704 href="download.html">download</a> page.
706 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
708 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
710 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
711 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
712 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
714 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
715 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
716 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
717 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
718 asp.net has been released as well.
720 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
722 This release also includes a new exception handling system
723 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
724 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
726 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
728 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
729 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
730 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
731 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
734 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
735 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
736 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
738 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
741 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
744 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
745 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
746 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
747 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
749 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
750 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
751 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
752 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
753 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
754 server on Unix using Mono.
756 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
757 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
758 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
759 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
761 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
762 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
763 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
764 new test application that people can use to test their
765 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
766 you can participate in the <a
767 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
770 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
771 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
773 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
776 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
777 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
779 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
780 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
781 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
782 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
784 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
786 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
787 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
789 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
790 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
792 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
793 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
794 new technology are <a
795 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
796 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
798 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
799 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
800 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
802 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
803 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
806 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
807 see Windows screenshots for it <a
808 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
809 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
811 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
814 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
815 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
817 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
818 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
819 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
821 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
823 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
824 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
827 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
829 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
830 in Open Office file format.
832 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
834 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
835 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
837 Tim Coleman posted an <a
838 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
839 on the improvements in the System.Data
841 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
842 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
844 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
846 Tim's SqlClient is <a
847 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
848 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
849 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
850 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
852 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
854 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
855 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
856 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
857 been working on the Security classes.
859 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
860 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
861 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
862 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
864 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
865 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
867 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
870 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
871 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
873 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
875 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
878 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
879 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
880 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
881 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
882 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
883 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
885 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
886 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
887 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
888 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
889 list</a> mailing list.
891 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
892 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
893 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
894 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
895 data adapter is also coming soon.
897 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
899 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
900 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
901 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
902 are not supported by the .NET framework.
904 Last week we created a new <a
905 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
906 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
908 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
909 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
912 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
914 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
915 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
916 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
917 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
918 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
919 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
920 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
921 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
922 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
923 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
925 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
926 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
927 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
928 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
929 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
930 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
931 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
932 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
935 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
937 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
938 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
939 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
941 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
942 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
944 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
945 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
946 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
947 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
948 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
949 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
950 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
952 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
953 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
954 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
955 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
956 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
959 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
960 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
961 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
962 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
963 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
964 Documentation Tools</a>.
966 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
968 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
969 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
970 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
971 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
973 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
974 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
975 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
976 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
977 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
978 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
979 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
980 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
981 configuration file `machine.config'.
983 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
985 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
987 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
988 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
989 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
992 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
993 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
994 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
995 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
996 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
998 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
1000 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
1001 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
1003 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
1004 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
1005 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
1006 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
1007 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
1008 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
1011 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
1013 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1014 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1015 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
1017 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
1018 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
1019 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
1020 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
1023 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
1025 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
1026 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
1029 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
1031 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
1032 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
1033 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
1036 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
1037 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
1038 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
1039 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
1040 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
1041 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
1044 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
1046 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
1047 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
1048 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
1049 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
1050 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
1051 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
1053 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
1054 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
1055 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
1057 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
1058 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
1059 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
1060 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
1061 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
1062 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
1063 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
1064 on making a good UI in the future.
1066 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
1067 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
1068 This is the substrate for implementing the
1069 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
1071 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
1072 classes implementation.
1074 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
1075 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
1076 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
1077 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
1078 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
1081 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
1084 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
1085 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
1086 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
1087 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
1088 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
1089 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
1090 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
1091 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
1093 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
1096 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
1097 announced an Apache module that hosts
1098 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
1099 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
1102 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
1104 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
1105 released a fresh version of <a
1106 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
1107 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
1109 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
1111 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1112 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1113 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
1115 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
1117 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
1118 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
1119 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
1122 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
1123 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
1126 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
1128 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
1130 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
1131 on par with the PPC port.
1133 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
1134 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
1135 code for the remoting infrastructure.
1137 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
1138 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
1141 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
1143 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
1144 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
1145 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
1146 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
1148 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
1149 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
1150 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
1151 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
1153 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
1154 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
1155 for structure marshaling.
1157 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
1158 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
1159 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
1160 to integrate with Patrik's code.
1162 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
1163 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
1164 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
1166 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
1169 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
1171 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
1172 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
1173 a successful free software project.
1175 The first, deserved, entry goes to
1176 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
1177 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
1178 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
1179 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
1183 Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see the olds news.