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6 <a href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> announced the
7 launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an open source
8 implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
10 Mono includes: <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
11 C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">runtime</a> for the
12 Common Language Infrastructure (also referred as the CLR) and a
13 set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>. The
14 runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your
17 Mono has implementations of both <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a>
18 and <a href="asp-net">ASP.NET</a> as part of its distribution.
20 You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
21 this project. If you have questions about the project, please
22 read our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
23 Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact us.</a>
25 You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
26 source</a> for our work so far. Grab a <a
27 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our current work, or <a
28 href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=mono">browse
32 href="mailing-lists.html">subscribe</a> to our mono-list
33 and mono-announce-list. There is also a <a
34 href="http://www.gotmono.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl">forum</a> at <a
35 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono</a>.
37 You can contact the team at: <a
38 href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">mono-list@ximian.com</a>
40 In order to follow the process of the project and to learn more
41 about the team members we have created the <a
42 href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/index.html">Mono Weekly News letter</a>.
43 Which archives can be found <a
44 href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/archives.html">here</a>.
45 We have a <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk# Wiki</a>
46 and a <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono Wiki</a>
53 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
58 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
61 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
79 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM<br>
85 <td><b><a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a></b></td>
86 <td>Webforms working<br></td>
90 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
93 All assemblies compile.
101 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
106 <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshots</a>
114 <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 May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches.
157 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-winforms-list/2003-May/000284.html">announced</a>
158 the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a library
159 that can be used dynamically from Mono. This work simplifies
160 the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer necessary
161 have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub program.
162 The patches are available <a
163 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/mono/">here</a>.
165 Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the <a
166 href="download.html">download page</a>.
168 @item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono
170 Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the <a
171 href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse IDE</a> running on top
172 of Mono+<a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a>.
174 A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found <a
175 href="images/ikvm-screenshot.png">here</a>
177 @item May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships
179 We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code
180 generation engine. A list of the new features is available <a
181 href="archive/mono-0.24.html">here</a>.
183 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
184 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
185 We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.
187 @item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
189 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released
190 their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso
191 3.0</a> database system. Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux.
192 On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and
193 ASP.NET. Congratulations to OpenLink for their release.
195 Virtuoso can be downloaded <a
196 href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a>
197 and a demo is available <a
198 href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>.
200 OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
203 Jon Udell wrote a small <a
204 href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a>
206 @item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.
208 Atsushi has created a <a
209 href="http://www24.brinkster.com/ginga/RelaxngValidatingReader/">RelaxNG</a>
210 validating XML reader.
212 There is activity on the <a
213 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono forums</a> and the <a
214 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/">Gtk# Wiki</a>
216 @item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out; Team pages.
218 The first book to cover Mono is out. This book is currently
219 only available in German, you can find it <a
220 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a>
222 We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a>
223 where we include a list of some of the people who have made
224 Mono possible. If you have CVS access, please update the page
225 to include your information.
227 @item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
229 The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
231 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a>
233 Zoltan has commited his <a
234 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed
235 allocation</a> patches to CVS as well.
237 @item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
239 Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
240 <a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool. Screenshots are <a
241 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
243 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>
245 Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
246 module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the <a
247 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>
249 The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
250 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>. Screenshots are
251 <a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>.
253 @item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
255 <a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
256 openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
258 @item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
260 <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue">
263 <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
264 What do you think about Mono?
266 Is your company involved with the development and
267 deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an
268 important part of your company's business application
269 strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
270 project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
271 and the use of Linux in business critical
274 If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
275 would like to talk with you. If interested, please
277 href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
283 @item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
285 Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
286 that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It
287 is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
288 Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
290 @item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
292 A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
293 notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. This is mostly a
294 bug fix release. No new features.
296 @item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
298 Mono 0.22 has been released. See the <a
299 href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix
302 A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
303 has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
305 Martin also announced a <a
306 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
307 release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
309 @item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
311 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
312 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
313 contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
316 Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug
317 fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
318 and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
319 and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the
320 point of running the <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual
323 @item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
325 A new mailing list for <a
326 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
327 Development</a> has been created.
329 @item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
331 Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
332 The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
334 Windows binary is available <a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">here</a>
336 @item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
338 Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
339 href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
340 Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
342 Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
343 handles ASP.NET. The code is available at <a
344 href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
346 Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
347 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
348 tests</a>. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
350 Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
351 momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
353 @item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
355 Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the <a
356 href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
357 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
358 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
359 and performance improvements.
362 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
364 <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
365 binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a
366 href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
368 @item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
370 With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
371 looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
372 of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
374 Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have
375 checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
376 how to complete this process <a
377 href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a
378 href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
379 for further discussion.
381 @item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates.
383 Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
384 Gnome. A screenshot can be seen <a
385 href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available
386 on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
387 straight binding to the C API.
390 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
391 an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
394 We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
395 JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
397 @item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
399 Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
400 as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
401 Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
402 advantage of Unix facilities.
404 A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
406 Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
407 If you want to contribute please read <a
408 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
411 Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
412 improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
413 has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
414 source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
415 (compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed
416 work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
417 generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
419 @item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
421 <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
422 Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
423 announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
425 @item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
428 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
429 release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
431 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
433 @item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
435 Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
436 World Expo. A description is <a
437 href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
440 href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
441 release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
442 shipping that uses Mono.
444 @item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
446 Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
447 href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
448 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
449 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
450 and performance improvements.
452 We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
453 screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
454 there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
455 progress on the documentation browser.
457 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
458 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
460 @item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
462 After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
463 released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
464 debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
465 unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
466 applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
469 Details of the release are available in <a
470 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
472 The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
473 The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
474 by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
475 applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
478 @item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
480 Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
482 MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
483 distribution, and MCS works with it.
485 Zoltan has managed to get <a
486 href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
487 for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
490 @item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
492 Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
493 href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
494 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
496 @item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
498 A new issue of the <a
499 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
500 Weekly News</a> has been published.
502 Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
503 that Sebastien has put together.
505 @item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
507 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
508 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
509 improved this to use implicit names as well.
511 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
512 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
513 per-thread basis now.
515 Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
516 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
517 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
518 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
519 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
521 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
522 statements on the grammar.
524 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
525 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
527 @item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
529 <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
530 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
531 their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
534 <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
535 href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
536 availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
538 Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
539 href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
540 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
541 of their product, also using Mono.
543 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
546 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
547 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
548 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
549 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
551 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
552 and its available from our <a
553 href="download.html">download</a> page.
555 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
557 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
559 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
560 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
561 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
563 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
564 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
565 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
566 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
567 asp.net has been released as well.
569 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
571 This release also includes a new exception handling system
572 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
573 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
575 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
577 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
578 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
579 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
580 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
583 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
584 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
585 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
587 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
590 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
593 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
594 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
595 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
596 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
598 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
599 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
600 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
601 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
602 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
603 server on Unix using Mono.
605 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
606 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
607 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
608 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
610 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
611 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
612 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
613 new test application that people can use to test their
614 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
615 you can participate in the <a
616 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
619 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
620 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
622 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
625 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
626 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
628 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
629 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
630 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
631 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
633 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
635 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
636 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
638 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
639 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
641 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
642 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
643 new technology are <a
644 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
645 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
647 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
648 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
649 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
651 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
652 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
655 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
656 see Windows screenshots for it <a
657 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
658 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
660 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
663 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
664 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
666 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
667 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
668 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
670 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
672 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
673 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
676 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
678 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
679 in Open Office file format.
681 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
683 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
684 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
686 Tim Coleman posted an <a
687 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
688 on the improvements in the System.Data
690 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
691 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
693 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
695 Tim's SqlClient is <a
696 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
697 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
698 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
699 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
701 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
703 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
704 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
705 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
706 been working on the Security classes.
708 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
709 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
710 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
711 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
713 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
714 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
716 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
719 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
720 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
722 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
724 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
727 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
728 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
729 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
730 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
731 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
732 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
734 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
735 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
736 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
737 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
738 list</a> mailing list.
740 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
741 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
742 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
743 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
744 data adapter is also coming soon.
746 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
748 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
749 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
750 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
751 are not supported by the .NET framework.
753 Last week we created a new <a
754 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
755 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
757 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
758 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
761 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
763 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
764 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
765 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
766 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
767 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
768 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
769 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
770 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
771 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
772 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
774 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
775 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
776 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
777 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
778 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
779 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
780 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
781 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
784 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
786 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
787 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
788 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
790 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
791 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
793 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
794 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
795 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
796 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
797 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
798 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
799 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
801 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
802 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
803 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
804 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
805 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
808 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
809 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
810 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
811 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
812 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
813 Documentation Tools</a>.
815 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
817 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
818 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
819 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
820 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
822 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
823 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
824 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
825 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
826 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
827 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
828 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
829 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
830 configuration file `machine.config'.
832 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
834 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
836 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
837 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
838 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
841 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
842 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
843 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
844 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
845 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
847 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
849 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
850 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
852 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
853 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
854 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
855 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
856 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
857 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
860 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
862 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
863 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
864 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
866 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
867 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
868 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
869 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
872 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
874 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
875 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
878 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
880 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
881 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
882 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
885 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
886 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
887 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
888 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
889 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
890 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
893 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
895 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
896 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
897 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
898 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
899 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
900 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
902 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
903 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
904 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
906 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
907 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
908 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
909 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
910 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
911 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
912 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
913 on making a good UI in the future.
915 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
916 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
917 This is the substrate for implementing the
918 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
920 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
921 classes implementation.
923 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
924 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
925 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
926 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
927 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
930 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
933 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
934 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
935 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
936 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
937 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
938 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
939 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
940 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
942 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
945 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
946 announced an Apache module that hosts
947 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
948 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
951 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
953 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
954 released a fresh version of <a
955 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
956 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
958 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
960 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
961 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
962 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
964 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
966 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
967 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
968 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
971 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
972 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
975 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
977 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
979 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
980 on par with the PPC port.
982 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
983 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
984 code for the remoting infrastructure.
986 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
987 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
990 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
992 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
993 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
994 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
995 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
997 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
998 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
999 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
1000 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
1002 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
1003 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
1004 for structure marshaling.
1006 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
1007 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
1008 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
1009 to integrate with Patrik's code.
1011 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
1012 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
1013 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
1015 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
1018 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
1020 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
1021 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
1022 a successful free software project.
1024 The first, deserved, entry goes to
1025 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
1026 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
1027 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
1028 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
1032 Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see the olds news.