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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
15 application. It implements of both <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET</a>
16 and <a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a>.
18 You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
19 this project. If you have questions about the project, please
20 read our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
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35 Wikis: <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk# Wiki</a>
36 and <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono
44 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
49 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
52 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
70 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM<br>
76 <td><b><a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a></b></td>
77 <td>Webforms and WebServices working<br></td>
81 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
84 All assemblies compile.
92 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
97 <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshots</a>
105 <b><center>In the news</center></b>
110 <img src="images/netmagazine.png">
113 <a href="http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2003_TE/magazine/columns/trends/default.asp">May 31st, 2003</a>: CLI integration.
118 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
121 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">May 22nd, 2003</a>: Mono 1.0 plans.
126 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
129 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">Mar 14th, 2003</a>: Whither Mono?
134 <img src="images/b2.png">
137 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">Dec, 2002</a>: The Penguin takes flight.
145 @item Oct 1st: Mono 0.28 has been released.
148 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.26.html">Release
149 notes</a> for details on Mono 0.28. This release marks the
150 completion of the SourceGear project to add web services
151 functionality to Mono and improve its reliability.
153 @item Sep 30th: Mono Kick Start book available
155 The Mono Kick Start book is now <a
156 href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0672325799/qid=1064937318/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-9624440-8714218?v=glance&s=books&n=507846">available</a>
157 in English. Originally available only in <a
158 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">German</a>.
159 The book technical review was done by <a
160 href="http://www.maurer-it.com/">Dietmar Maurer</a> JIT
161 architect at the Mono team.
163 @item Sep 26th, 2003: DiaCanvas# 0.1 released, Gtk# 0.11 released.
166 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-September/002475.html">released</a>
167 a new version of <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>.
170 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-September/015951.html">released</a>
171 his binding to <a href="http://diacanvas.sf.net">DiaCanvas</a> for C#.
173 @item Sep 16th, 2003: WineLib, Authenticode, Generics, Xslt updates, Wsdl compiler, WSE.
175 <b>WineLib:</b> Vladimir has added new libraries to the Wine
176 process, which we will soon bring into our packages: the
177 various Windows common dialogs can now be used (screenshots:
178 <a href="images/colordlg.png">here</a>, <a
179 href="images/fontdlg.png">here</a>, <a
180 href="images/filedlg.png">here</a> and <a
181 href="images/finddlg.png">here</a>.
183 Johannes has patches to have Wine track the Gtk theme,
184 screenshot <a href="http://www.sport-huettn.de/jroith/swfsample.png">here</a>
186 <b>Security:</b> New authenticode support from Sebastien has
187 been checked into CVS.
189 <b>Xslt:</b> Plenty of conformance updates to the managed
190 implementation of Xslt, as well as breaking the libxslt speed
191 barrier. Our managed implementation is now faster than the
192 C-based libxslt that we used before.
194 <b>Generics:</b> Work continues on generics support, feel free
195 to try it out. The compiler is currently on a separate
196 directory until we stability it (gmcs) and you need to compile
197 the class libraries with the `generics' profile to try it
198 out. Sample generic programs are included in the CVS module.
200 <b>Wsdl:</b> We now have Wsdl support in Mono: a wsdl compiler
201 command line tool, and support on ASP.NET to generate the wsdl
202 file from an .asmx file.
204 <b>AOT:</b> Many robustness updates to the ahead-of-time
205 compiler and a new locking and threading system that avoids
206 having "big locks" around the mono kernel, and moves to a
207 fine-grained locking system. The design includes a lattice to
210 <b>Dogfooding:</b> We are now running Mono's ASP.NET on
211 go-mono.com to find problems. It is currently hosting our
212 Monodoc documentation. The <a
213 href="http://www.go-mono.com/docs/index.html">Apache module
214 version</a> and the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com:8080/">XSP
217 <b>WSE:</b> The Web Services Enhancements season has begun.
218 The Microsoft.Web.Services namespace and classes are now
221 @item Sep 1st, 2003: Ice for Mono; XmlSerializer generators; Monodoc progress.
223 <b>Ice:</b> Vladimir has checked into CVS (Module ginzu) an
224 implementation of <a href="http://www.zeroc.com">ZeroC's</a>
225 <a href="http://www.zeroc.com/ice.html">ICE</a> protocol. It
226 is implemented using Remoting. If you were looking for an
227 efficient binary protocol to use with Remoting, this is it.
229 ICE is simpler to use than CORBA, and was created by people
230 who were deeply involved in CORBA and wanted to fix its
231 problems (you can see a <a
232 href="http://www.zeroc.com/iceVsCorba.html">list of
235 <b>XmlSerializer</b>: Lluis has checked in a new technology
236 for use in our XmlSerializer: the XmlSerializer code
237 generator. Currently our XmlSerializer generates a
238 description of instructions for serializing data, these
239 instructions are later interpreted while using it: Reflection
240 is used to pull all the data. The code generator is the first
241 step into turning the Serializer from an intepreter into a
242 compiler and improving the performance of it.
244 Currently was used internally to implement the WSDL
245 serializer, in the future it will just be part of the standard
246 serialization process.
248 <b>MonoDoc:</b> New providers! Thanks to <a
249 href="http://www.jaggersoft.com/">Jon Jagger</a> for providing
250 us with his master XML files for the C# specification we now
251 have integrated the C# spec into Monodoc. Another provider is
252 the Error provider: now we include all the C# compiler errors
255 Alp has contributed various user interface improvement, and
256 updated our list widget for key navigation; Ben made the
257 matches window more useful and Joshua has helped us clean up
258 the ECMA provider even more.
260 @item Aug 14th, 2003: Mono 0.26 has been released
262 A new version of Mono is available, the new features include:
263 <a href="http://www.cairographics.org/">Cairo support</a>, <a
264 href="http://remoting-corba.sf.net">Remoting.Corba</a>
265 support, as well as a managed XSLT implementation.
267 Existing features have been improved vastly: better
268 Windows.Forms, runtime, faster compiler, web services, better
269 compliance to the spec and more.
272 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.26.html">Release
273 notes</a> for details.
275 @item Aug 9th, 2003: Python for .NET Preview 2 available; Mono Documentation site up.
278 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-August/015313.html">announced</a>
279 the availability of his Python binding to .NET. This works
280 with .NET and Mono. For more information about it, see
281 Brian's site at <a href="
282 http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/">http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/</a>
284 We have uploaded the current Mono Documentation (core
285 libraries and Gtk#) to <a
286 href="http://mono.ximian.com:8080"/>http://mono.ximian.com:8080</a>.
287 The site is running the ASP.NET edition of <a
288 href="archive/monodoc-0.6.tar.gz">MonoDoc 0.6</a> on XSP.
290 @item Aug 6th, 2003: Winforms samples
292 Timothy Parez is coordinating the effort to create sample
293 programs that exercise the various Windows.Forms controls. We
294 are using this as graphical regression test suite for the Mono
297 The screenshots of the various widgets, together with the
298 source code is available on the <a
299 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">WineSamples</a>
301 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/">Mono Wiki</a>.
303 A new cvs module called `winforms' has been created that
304 contains the source code for the samples. To run the samples,
305 you can install the WineLib packages available from our <a
306 href="download.html">download page</a>.
308 @item Aug 5th, 2003: New Apache Module architecture: 1.3 and 2.x supported
310 Gonzalo rearchitected our Apache module for hosting Mono and
311 ASP.NET. The previous incarnation hosted a Mono runtime on
312 each Apache process, which lead to a slow setup for webforms.
313 The new setup uses a shared mono process for all the incoming
314 requests. Daniel later improved up the new architecture and
315 added dual support, so now in addition to Apache 2.x, we
316 support Apache 1.3 with the same codebase.
318 The new code is available on CVS, on module `mod_mono', and
319 now requires an XSP installation to be available.
321 @item Aug 4th, 2003: Ximian acquired by Novell.
323 Today <a href="http://www.novell.com">Novell</a> acquired <a
324 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a>. The press release is
326 href="http://www.ximian.com./about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=novell">here</a>.
328 Mono and Gnome form an integral part of the Novell strategy.
330 @item Jul 30th, 2003: Remoting.CORBA, Managed XSLT.
332 Today Lluis announced that Mono CVS contains all the fixes to
334 href="http://remoting-corba.sourceforge.net/">Remoting.CORBA</a>:
335 both client and server channels work; We are interested in people
336 testing it with other ORBs.
338 Ben checked-in today his managed implementation of Xslt that
339 we mentioned on Jul 19th; This uncovered various limitations
340 on the XPath implementation, which Piers has swifly removed.
341 Monodoc, NUnit and our Corcompare work with it. Since this is
342 implementation is not completed yet, we still support the
343 libxslt-based version by default. For more details on how to
344 try the new XSLT implementation, see <a
345 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001681.html">Ben's
348 @item Jul 27th, 2003: Wine packages and Daily Snapshots
350 MonoWine packages (used to run System.Windows.Forms) software
351 are now available from our (<a
352 href="download.html">download</a> page). You can track the
354 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">Wiki
357 We're now building daily snapshots of Mono. They come in
358 three distinct flavors:
361 * mono snapshot tarballs - These are 'release-style' tarballs and
362 contain everything necessary to setup a new
363 installation from scratch. This includes the Mono
364 runtime and all the assemblies we distribute.
366 * monocharge tarballs - These tarballs contain only
367 the assemblies built on that day.
369 * monolite tarballs - These tarballs contain a copy of
370 'corlib.dll', 'mcs.exe', 'System.dll', 'System.Xml.dll' and
371 'Mono.CSharp.Debugger.dll'. They can be used to
372 re-bootstrap an out-of-sync installation.
375 The daily builds are availble here: <a href="http://go-mono.com/daily">http://go-mono.com/daily</a>
377 If you find that the builds are broken, please notify Duncan.
379 @item Jul 19th, 2003: Recent developments
381 Since Mono has matured, we have limited the news on the site
382 to major accomplishments that are finished, but this week, it
383 is worth devoting some time to talk about some of the
384 work-in-progress projects that are progressing.
386 Jackson has added support to the IL assembler for generics as
387 well as to the PEAPI library, and it has assembled its first
388 generic program. Support for handling images with generics
389 has been on our file format reader for a while, but the JIT
390 engine is still incomplete.
392 On the XSLT world, Atsushi and Ben continue to make big
393 improvements. Ben recently got the prototype managed XSLT
394 implementation to run its first stylesheet. Although
395 currently Mono uses libxslt to implement the System.Xml.Xsl
396 namespace, to have a fully .NET compliant implementation we
397 will need a managed version, and this is the beginning of it.
399 Lluis recently posted an update on the <a
400 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001550.html">state
401 of WSDL</a> in Mono. Now that the web services runtime is
402 ready, the WSDL compiler becomes more important as a
405 Atsushi continues his work on the DTD validating reader in
406 System.Xml, as well as improving our XML Schema support.
408 @item Jul 14th, 2003: New build system; IPV6 support.
410 Peter Williams has contributed a new build system that
411 addresses many of the annoyance we had with our previous build
412 system. He has worked on this for a few weeks, and Gonzalo
413 helped test it and get it into CVS. We no longer have the
414 historical dual build system: make for Unix and nant for
417 This system also offers the opportunity to compile our class
418 libraries with different profiles (.NET 1.0, .NET 1.1 and the
419 various ECMA subsets).
421 Peter explains the new build system <a
422 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001506.html">here</a>
424 Jerome's IPV6 code has been checked into CVS; With Peter's new
425 build system, we will be able to expose it (as part of the
428 @item Jul 9th, 2003: ASP.NET web services, coverage tools.
430 Web Services keep advancing: now we also support server-side
431 authoring of Web Services as well as web service clients
432 (which shipped in Mono 0.25). This works using our ASP.NET
433 runtime, so it works with either XSP or the Apache module. The
434 new Web Services work from Lluis added the missing bits:
437 <li> Method calls with complex parameters (whatever XmlSerializer can currently serialize, which is a quite a lot).
438 <li> ref and out parameters.
439 <li> Soap headers (In, Out and InOut).
440 <li> Soap extensions, both global (configured in web.config) and particular to methods (configured using attributes).
443 For more details, see Lluis <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001449.html">post</a>
445 GUI-wise: Work on <a href="http://xr.xwin.org">Xr</a> to
446 implement System.Drawing continues. This will provide a full
447 GDI+ implementation for Mono, and this will be hooked up into
448 Gtk# and System.Windows.Forms.
450 MonoDoc keeps moving along, with a new web-based version
451 coming up next, and we are also exploring a collaborative
452 extension to allow people to contribute documentation through
455 Zoltan's Coverage analysis tool has been checked into CVS.
456 With this tool it is now possible to find which class library
457 code paths are missing regression tests. The module is
458 `monocov'. Details are <a
459 href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz/">here</a>. A fresh Gtk#
460 version is available now.
462 Jean's remoting-based Soap implenentation is also maturing.
464 @item Jun 26th: Mono 0.25 has been released.
466 We have released Mono 0.25. A list of the new features is
467 available <a href="archive/mono-0.25.html">here</a>.
469 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
470 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
472 @item Jun 17th, 2003: Web Services client; Profiling hooks
474 Lluis and Gonzalo have checked into CVS the support for web
475 services in the Mono runtime. This allows Mono to work as a
476 web services client. We still require a WSDL compiler to
477 compile the initial stub, but Erik has the beginning of a WSDL
478 compiler ready and Atsushi has continued work on his
479 experimental Xml Schema to C# class generator.
481 As part of this, the Mono Http runtime has been rewritten to
482 increase reliability, scalability and conformance to the
483 specs. Also our io-layer has been extended to not have
484 arbitrary limits. This was done as part of our collaboration
487 Paolo has commited the new pluggable profiling API to the Mono
488 runtime: now the profiler is built as a module, and a new code
489 coverage analysis has been checked in (and Zoltan already
490 added improvements to it).
492 Mark's Mozilla bindings continue to improve, and we will shortly
493 migrate the Mono documentation browser to use Mozilla, to take
494 advantage of the tutorial's use of CSS.
496 Jackson's work on the IL assembler and Ben on running
497 regression tests have provided us with a very needed tool in
498 the Mono toolkit. One of the last missing pieces on the SDK.
500 On the crypto world, we got Sebastien's certificate viewer
501 checked into CVS and the crypto code keeps advancing by leaps
504 Alexandre and Aleksey Work continues on Windows.Forms on top
505 of Wine and Gtk# (the former for full compatibility, the later
506 for ease-of-authoring).
508 Cesar checked in the beginning of the semantic analysis code
509 for his JScript compiler, and will be working on it full time.
511 @item Jun 11th, 2003: SourceGear and Ximian announce partnership
513 Ximian, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and server
514 solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption, today announced
515 that SourceGear Corporation will use Mono\x{2122} Project
516 technology to offer cross-platform versions of its
517 products. In addition, the companies have entered into a
518 development partnership under which Ximian will provide
519 custom Mono development to enable delivery of SourceGear
520 products later this year. As a result, SourceGear will offer
521 both UNIX and Linux clients for its SourceGear Vault source
522 code management tool, enabling broader use of its solutions in
523 mixed-platform development organizations.
525 <a href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=sourcegear">Read more...</a>
527 Some technical details are available <a
528 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-June/014334.html">here</a>.
530 @item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches.
533 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-winforms-list/2003-May/000284.html">announced</a>
534 the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a library
535 that can be used dynamically from Mono. This work simplifies
536 the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer necessary
537 have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub program.
538 The patches are available <a
539 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/mono/">here</a>.
541 Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the <a
542 href="download.html">download page</a>.
544 @item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono
546 Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the <a
547 href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse IDE</a> running on top
548 of Mono+<a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a>.
550 A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found <a
551 href="images/ikvm-screenshot.png">here</a>
553 @item May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships
555 We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code
556 generation engine. A list of the new features is available <a
557 href="archive/mono-0.24.html">here</a>.
559 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
560 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
561 We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.
563 @item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
565 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released
566 their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso
567 3.0</a> database system. Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux.
568 On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and
569 ASP.NET. Congratulations to OpenLink for their release.
571 Virtuoso can be downloaded <a
572 href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a>
573 and a demo is available <a
574 href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>.
576 OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
579 Jon Udell wrote a small <a
580 href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a>
582 @item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.
584 Atsushi has created a <a
585 href="http://www24.brinkster.com/ginga/RelaxngValidatingReader/">RelaxNG</a>
586 validating XML reader.
588 There is activity on the <a
589 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono forums</a> and the <a
590 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/">Gtk# Wiki</a>
592 @item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out; Team pages.
594 The first book to cover Mono is out. This book is currently
595 only available in German, you can find it <a
596 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a>
598 We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a>
599 where we include a list of some of the people who have made
600 Mono possible. If you have CVS access, please update the page
601 to include your information.
603 @item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
605 The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
607 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a>
609 Zoltan has commited his <a
610 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed
611 allocation</a> patches to CVS as well.
613 @item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
615 Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
616 <a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool. Screenshots are <a
617 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
619 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>
621 Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
622 module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the <a
623 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>
625 The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
626 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>. Screenshots are
627 <a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>.
629 @item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
631 <a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
632 openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
634 @item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
636 <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue">
639 <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
640 What do you think about Mono?
642 Is your company involved with the development and
643 deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an
644 important part of your company's business application
645 strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
646 project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
647 and the use of Linux in business critical
650 If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
651 would like to talk with you. If interested, please
653 href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
659 @item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
661 Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
662 that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It
663 is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
664 Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
666 @item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
668 A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
669 notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. This is mostly a
670 bug fix release. No new features.
672 @item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
674 Mono 0.22 has been released. See the <a
675 href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix
678 A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
679 has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
681 Martin also announced a <a
682 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
683 release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
685 @item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
687 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
688 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
689 contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
692 Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug
693 fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
694 and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
695 and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the
696 point of running the <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual
699 @item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
701 A new mailing list for <a
702 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
703 Development</a> has been created.
705 @item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
707 Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
708 The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
710 Windows binary is available <a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">here</a>
712 @item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
714 Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
715 href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
716 Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
718 Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
719 handles ASP.NET. The code is available at <a
720 href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
722 Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
723 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
724 tests</a>. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
726 Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
727 momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
729 @item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
731 Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the <a
732 href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
733 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
734 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
735 and performance improvements.
738 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
740 <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
741 binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a
742 href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
744 @item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
746 With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
747 looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
748 of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
750 Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have
751 checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
752 how to complete this process <a
753 href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a
754 href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
755 for further discussion.
757 @item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates.
759 Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
760 Gnome. A screenshot can be seen <a
761 href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available
762 on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
763 straight binding to the C API.
766 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
767 an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
770 We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
771 JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
773 @item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
775 Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
776 as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
777 Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
778 advantage of Unix facilities.
780 A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
782 Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
783 If you want to contribute please read <a
784 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
787 Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
788 improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
789 has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
790 source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
791 (compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed
792 work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
793 generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
795 @item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
797 <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
798 Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
799 announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
801 @item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
804 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
805 release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
807 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
809 @item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
811 Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
812 World Expo. A description is <a
813 href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
816 href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
817 release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
818 shipping that uses Mono.
820 @item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
822 Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
823 href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
824 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
825 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
826 and performance improvements.
828 We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
829 screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
830 there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
831 progress on the documentation browser.
833 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
834 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
836 @item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
838 After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
839 released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
840 debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
841 unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
842 applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
845 Details of the release are available in <a
846 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
848 The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
849 The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
850 by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
851 applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
854 @item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
856 Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
858 MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
859 distribution, and MCS works with it.
861 Zoltan has managed to get <a
862 href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
863 for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
866 @item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
868 Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
869 href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
870 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
872 @item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
874 A new issue of the <a
875 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
876 Weekly News</a> has been published.
878 Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
879 that Sebastien has put together.
881 @item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
883 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
884 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
885 improved this to use implicit names as well.
887 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
888 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
889 per-thread basis now.
891 Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
892 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
893 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
894 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
895 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
897 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
898 statements on the grammar.
900 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
901 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
903 @item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
905 <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
906 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
907 their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
910 <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
911 href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
912 availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
914 Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
915 href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
916 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
917 of their product, also using Mono.
919 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
922 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
923 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
924 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
925 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
927 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
928 and its available from our <a
929 href="download.html">download</a> page.
931 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
933 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
935 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
936 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
937 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
939 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
940 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
941 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
942 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
943 asp.net has been released as well.
945 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
947 This release also includes a new exception handling system
948 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
949 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
951 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
953 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
954 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
955 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
956 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
959 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
960 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
961 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
963 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
966 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
969 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
970 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
971 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
972 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
974 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
975 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
976 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
977 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
978 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
979 server on Unix using Mono.
981 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
982 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
983 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
984 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
986 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
987 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
988 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
989 new test application that people can use to test their
990 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
991 you can participate in the <a
992 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
995 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
996 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
998 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
1001 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
1002 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
1004 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
1005 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
1006 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
1007 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
1009 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
1011 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
1012 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
1014 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
1015 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
1017 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
1018 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
1019 new technology are <a
1020 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
1021 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
1023 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
1024 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
1025 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
1027 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
1028 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
1031 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
1032 see Windows screenshots for it <a
1033 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
1034 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
1036 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
1039 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
1040 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
1042 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
1043 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
1044 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
1046 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
1048 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
1049 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
1052 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
1054 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
1055 in Open Office file format.
1057 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
1059 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
1060 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
1062 Tim Coleman posted an <a
1063 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
1064 on the improvements in the System.Data
1066 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
1067 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
1069 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
1071 Tim's SqlClient is <a
1072 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
1073 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
1074 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
1075 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
1077 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
1079 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
1080 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
1081 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
1082 been working on the Security classes.
1084 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
1085 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
1086 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
1087 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
1089 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
1090 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
1092 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
1095 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
1096 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
1098 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
1100 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
1103 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
1104 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
1105 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
1106 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
1107 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
1108 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
1110 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
1111 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
1112 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
1113 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
1114 list</a> mailing list.
1116 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
1117 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
1118 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
1119 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
1120 data adapter is also coming soon.
1122 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
1124 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
1125 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
1126 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
1127 are not supported by the .NET framework.
1129 Last week we created a new <a
1130 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
1131 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
1133 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
1134 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
1137 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
1139 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
1140 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
1141 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
1142 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
1143 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
1144 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
1145 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
1146 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
1147 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
1148 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
1150 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
1151 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
1152 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
1153 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
1154 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
1155 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
1156 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
1157 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
1160 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
1162 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
1163 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
1164 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
1166 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
1167 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
1169 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
1170 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
1171 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
1172 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
1173 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
1174 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
1175 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
1177 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
1178 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
1179 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
1180 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
1181 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
1184 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
1185 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
1186 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
1187 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
1188 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
1189 Documentation Tools</a>.
1191 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
1193 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
1194 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
1195 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
1196 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
1198 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
1199 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
1200 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
1201 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
1202 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
1203 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
1204 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
1205 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
1206 configuration file `machine.config'.
1208 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
1210 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
1212 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
1213 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
1214 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
1217 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
1218 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
1219 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
1220 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
1221 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
1223 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
1225 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
1226 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
1228 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
1229 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
1230 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
1231 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
1232 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
1233 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
1236 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
1238 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1239 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1240 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
1242 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
1243 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
1244 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
1245 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
1248 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
1250 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
1251 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
1254 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
1256 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
1257 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
1258 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
1261 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
1262 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
1263 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
1264 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
1265 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
1266 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
1269 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
1271 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
1272 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
1273 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
1274 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
1275 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
1276 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
1278 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
1279 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
1280 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
1282 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
1283 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
1284 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
1285 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
1286 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
1287 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
1288 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
1289 on making a good UI in the future.
1291 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
1292 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
1293 This is the substrate for implementing the
1294 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
1296 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
1297 classes implementation.
1299 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
1300 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
1301 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
1302 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
1303 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
1306 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
1309 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
1310 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
1311 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
1312 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
1313 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
1314 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
1315 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
1316 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
1318 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
1321 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
1322 announced an Apache module that hosts
1323 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
1324 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
1327 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
1329 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
1330 released a fresh version of <a
1331 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
1332 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
1334 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
1336 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1337 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1338 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
1340 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
1342 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
1343 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
1344 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
1347 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
1348 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
1351 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
1353 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
1355 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
1356 on par with the PPC port.
1358 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
1359 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
1360 code for the remoting infrastructure.
1362 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
1363 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
1366 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
1368 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
1369 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
1370 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
1371 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
1373 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
1374 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
1375 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
1376 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
1378 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
1379 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
1380 for structure marshaling.
1382 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
1383 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
1384 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
1385 to integrate with Patrik's code.
1387 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
1388 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
1389 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
1391 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
1394 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
1396 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
1397 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
1398 a successful free software project.
1400 The first, deserved, entry goes to
1401 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
1402 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
1403 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
1404 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
1408 Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see the olds news.