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6 <a href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> announced the
7 launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an open source
8 implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
10 Mono includes: <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
11 C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">runtime</a> for the
12 Common Language Infrastructure (also referred as the CLR) and a
13 set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>. The
14 runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your
17 Mono has implementations of both <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a>
18 and <a href="asp-net">ASP.NET</a> as part of its distribution.
20 You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
21 this project. If you have questions about the project, please
22 read our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
23 Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact us.</a>
25 You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
26 source</a> for our work so far. Grab a <a
27 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our current work, or <a
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32 href="mailing-lists.html">subscribe</a> to our mono-list
33 and mono-announce-list. There is also a <a
34 href="http://www.gotmono.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl">forum</a> at <a
35 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono</a>.
37 You can contact the team at: <a
38 href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">mono-list@ximian.com</a>
40 In order to follow the process of the project and to learn more
41 about the team members we have created the <a
42 href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/index.html">Mono Weekly News letter</a>.
43 Which archives can be found <a
44 href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/archives.html">here</a>.
45 We have a <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk# Wiki</a>
46 and a <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono Wiki</a>
53 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
58 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
61 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
79 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM<br>
85 <td><b><a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a></b></td>
86 <td>Webforms and WebServices working<br></td>
90 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
93 All assemblies compile.
101 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
106 <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshots</a>
114 <b><center>In the news</center></b>
119 <img src="images/netmagazine.png">
122 <a href="http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2003_TE/magazine/columns/trends/default.asp">May 31st, 2003</a>: CLI integration.
127 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
130 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">May 22nd, 2003</a>: Mono 1.0 plans.
135 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
138 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">Mar 14th, 2003</a>: Whither Mono?
143 <img src="images/b2.png">
146 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">Dec, 2002</a>: The Penguin takes flight.
154 @item Jul 9th, 2003: ASP.NET web services, coverage tools.
156 Web Services keep advancing: now we also support server-side
157 authoring of Web Services as well as web service clients
158 (which shipped in Mono 0.25). This works using our ASP.NET
159 runtime, so it works with either XSP or the Apache module. The
160 new Web Services work from Lluis added the missing bits:
163 <li> Method calls with complex parameters (whatever XmlSerializer can currently serialize, which is a quite a lot).
164 <li> ref and out parameters.
165 <li> Soap headers (In, Out and InOut).
166 <li> Soap extensions, both global (configured in web.config) and particular to methods (configured using attributes).
169 For more details, see Lluis <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001449.html">post</a>
171 GUI-wise: Work on <a href="http://xr.xwin.org">Xr</a> to
172 implement System.Drawing continues. This will provide a full
173 GDI+ implementation for Mono, and this will be hooked up into
174 Gtk# and System.Windows.Forms.
176 MonoDoc keeps moving along, with a new web-based version
177 coming up next, and we are also exploring a collaborative
178 extension to allow people to contribute documentation through
181 Zoltan's Coverage analysis tool has been checked into CVS.
182 With this tool it is now possible to find which class library
183 code paths are missing regression tests. The module is
184 `monocov'. Details are <a
185 href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz/">here</a>. A fresh Gtk#
186 version is available now.
188 Jean's remoting-based Soap implenentation is also maturing.
190 @item Jun 26th: Mono 0.25 has been released.
192 We have released Mono 0.25. A list of the new features is
193 available <a href="archive/mono-0.25.html">here</a>.
195 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
196 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
198 @item Jun 17th, 2003: Web Services client; Profiling hooks
200 Lluis and Gonzalo have checked into CVS the support for web
201 services in the Mono runtime. This allows Mono to work as a
202 web services client. We still require a WSDL compiler to
203 compile the initial stub, but Erik has the beginning of a WSDL
204 compiler ready and Atsushi has continued work on his
205 experimental Xml Schema to C# class generator.
207 As part of this, the Mono Http runtime has been rewritten to
208 increase reliability, scalability and conformance to the
209 specs. Also our io-layer has been extended to not have
210 arbitrary limits. This was done as part of our collaboration
213 Paolo has commited the new pluggable profiling API to the Mono
214 runtime: now the profiler is built as a module, and a new code
215 coverage analysis has been checked in (and Zoltan already
216 added improvements to it).
218 Mark's Mozilla bindings continue to improve, and we will shortly
219 migrate the Mono documentation browser to use Mozilla, to take
220 advantage of the tutorial's use of CSS.
222 Jackson's work on the IL assembler and Ben on running
223 regression tests have provided us with a very needed tool in
224 the Mono toolkit. One of the last missing pieces on the SDK.
226 On the crypto world, we got Sebastien's certificate viewer
227 checked into CVS and the crypto code keeps advancing by leaps
230 Alexandre and Aleksey Work continues on Windows.Forms on top
231 of Wine and Gtk# (the former for full compatibility, the later
232 for ease-of-authoring).
234 Cesar checked in the beginning of the semantic analysis code
235 for his JScript compiler, and will be working on it full time.
237 @item Jun 11th, 2003: SourceGear and Ximian announce partnership
239 Ximian, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and server
240 solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption, today announced
241 that SourceGear Corporation will use Mono\x{2122} Project
242 technology to offer cross-platform versions of its
243 products. In addition, the companies have entered into a
244 development partnership under which Ximian® will provide
245 custom Mono development to enable delivery of SourceGear
246 products later this year. As a result, SourceGear will offer
247 both UNIX and Linux clients for its SourceGear Vault source
248 code management tool, enabling broader use of its solutions in
249 mixed-platform development organizations.
251 <a href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=sourcegear">Read more...</a>
253 Some technical details are available <a
254 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-June/014334.html">here</a>.
256 @item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches.
259 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-winforms-list/2003-May/000284.html">announced</a>
260 the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a library
261 that can be used dynamically from Mono. This work simplifies
262 the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer necessary
263 have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub program.
264 The patches are available <a
265 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/mono/">here</a>.
267 Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the <a
268 href="download.html">download page</a>.
270 @item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono
272 Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the <a
273 href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse IDE</a> running on top
274 of Mono+<a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a>.
276 A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found <a
277 href="images/ikvm-screenshot.png">here</a>
279 @item May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships
281 We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code
282 generation engine. A list of the new features is available <a
283 href="archive/mono-0.24.html">here</a>.
285 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
286 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
287 We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.
289 @item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
291 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released
292 their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso
293 3.0</a> database system. Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux.
294 On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and
295 ASP.NET. Congratulations to OpenLink for their release.
297 Virtuoso can be downloaded <a
298 href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a>
299 and a demo is available <a
300 href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>.
302 OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
305 Jon Udell wrote a small <a
306 href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a>
308 @item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.
310 Atsushi has created a <a
311 href="http://www24.brinkster.com/ginga/RelaxngValidatingReader/">RelaxNG</a>
312 validating XML reader.
314 There is activity on the <a
315 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono forums</a> and the <a
316 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/">Gtk# Wiki</a>
318 @item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out; Team pages.
320 The first book to cover Mono is out. This book is currently
321 only available in German, you can find it <a
322 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a>
324 We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a>
325 where we include a list of some of the people who have made
326 Mono possible. If you have CVS access, please update the page
327 to include your information.
329 @item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
331 The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
333 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a>
335 Zoltan has commited his <a
336 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed
337 allocation</a> patches to CVS as well.
339 @item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
341 Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
342 <a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool. Screenshots are <a
343 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
345 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>
347 Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
348 module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the <a
349 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>
351 The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
352 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>. Screenshots are
353 <a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>.
355 @item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
357 <a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
358 openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
360 @item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
362 <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue">
365 <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
366 What do you think about Mono?
368 Is your company involved with the development and
369 deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an
370 important part of your company's business application
371 strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
372 project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
373 and the use of Linux in business critical
376 If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
377 would like to talk with you. If interested, please
379 href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
385 @item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
387 Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
388 that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It
389 is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
390 Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
392 @item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
394 A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
395 notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. This is mostly a
396 bug fix release. No new features.
398 @item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
400 Mono 0.22 has been released. See the <a
401 href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix
404 A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
405 has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
407 Martin also announced a <a
408 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
409 release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
411 @item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
413 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
414 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
415 contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
418 Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug
419 fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
420 and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
421 and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the
422 point of running the <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual
425 @item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
427 A new mailing list for <a
428 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
429 Development</a> has been created.
431 @item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
433 Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
434 The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
436 Windows binary is available <a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">here</a>
438 @item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
440 Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
441 href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
442 Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
444 Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
445 handles ASP.NET. The code is available at <a
446 href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
448 Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
449 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
450 tests</a>. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
452 Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
453 momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
455 @item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
457 Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the <a
458 href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
459 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
460 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
461 and performance improvements.
464 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
466 <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
467 binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a
468 href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
470 @item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
472 With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
473 looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
474 of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
476 Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have
477 checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
478 how to complete this process <a
479 href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a
480 href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
481 for further discussion.
483 @item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates.
485 Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
486 Gnome. A screenshot can be seen <a
487 href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available
488 on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
489 straight binding to the C API.
492 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
493 an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
496 We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
497 JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
499 @item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
501 Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
502 as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
503 Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
504 advantage of Unix facilities.
506 A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
508 Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
509 If you want to contribute please read <a
510 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
513 Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
514 improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
515 has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
516 source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
517 (compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed
518 work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
519 generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
521 @item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
523 <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
524 Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
525 announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
527 @item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
530 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
531 release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
533 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
535 @item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
537 Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
538 World Expo. A description is <a
539 href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
542 href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
543 release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
544 shipping that uses Mono.
546 @item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
548 Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
549 href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
550 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
551 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
552 and performance improvements.
554 We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
555 screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
556 there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
557 progress on the documentation browser.
559 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
560 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
562 @item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
564 After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
565 released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
566 debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
567 unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
568 applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
571 Details of the release are available in <a
572 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
574 The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
575 The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
576 by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
577 applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
580 @item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
582 Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
584 MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
585 distribution, and MCS works with it.
587 Zoltan has managed to get <a
588 href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
589 for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
592 @item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
594 Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
595 href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
596 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
598 @item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
600 A new issue of the <a
601 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
602 Weekly News</a> has been published.
604 Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
605 that Sebastien has put together.
607 @item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
609 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
610 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
611 improved this to use implicit names as well.
613 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
614 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
615 per-thread basis now.
617 Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
618 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
619 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
620 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
621 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
623 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
624 statements on the grammar.
626 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
627 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
629 @item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
631 <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
632 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
633 their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
636 <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
637 href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
638 availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
640 Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
641 href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
642 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
643 of their product, also using Mono.
645 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
648 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
649 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
650 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
651 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
653 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
654 and its available from our <a
655 href="download.html">download</a> page.
657 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
659 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
661 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
662 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
663 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
665 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
666 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
667 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
668 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
669 asp.net has been released as well.
671 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
673 This release also includes a new exception handling system
674 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
675 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
677 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
679 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
680 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
681 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
682 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
685 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
686 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
687 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
689 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
692 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
695 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
696 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
697 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
698 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
700 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
701 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
702 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
703 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
704 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
705 server on Unix using Mono.
707 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
708 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
709 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
710 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
712 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
713 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
714 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
715 new test application that people can use to test their
716 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
717 you can participate in the <a
718 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
721 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
722 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
724 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
727 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
728 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
730 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
731 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
732 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
733 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
735 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
737 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
738 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
740 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
741 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
743 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
744 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
745 new technology are <a
746 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
747 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
749 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
750 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
751 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
753 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
754 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
757 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
758 see Windows screenshots for it <a
759 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
760 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
762 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
765 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
766 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
768 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
769 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
770 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
772 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
774 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
775 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
778 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
780 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
781 in Open Office file format.
783 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
785 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
786 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
788 Tim Coleman posted an <a
789 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
790 on the improvements in the System.Data
792 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
793 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
795 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
797 Tim's SqlClient is <a
798 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
799 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
800 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
801 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
803 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
805 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
806 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
807 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
808 been working on the Security classes.
810 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
811 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
812 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
813 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
815 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
816 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
818 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
821 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
822 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
824 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
826 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
829 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
830 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
831 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
832 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
833 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
834 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
836 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
837 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
838 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
839 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
840 list</a> mailing list.
842 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
843 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
844 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
845 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
846 data adapter is also coming soon.
848 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
850 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
851 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
852 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
853 are not supported by the .NET framework.
855 Last week we created a new <a
856 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
857 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
859 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
860 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
863 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
865 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
866 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
867 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
868 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
869 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
870 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
871 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
872 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
873 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
874 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
876 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
877 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
878 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
879 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
880 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
881 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
882 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
883 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
886 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
888 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
889 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
890 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
892 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
893 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
895 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
896 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
897 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
898 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
899 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
900 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
901 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
903 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
904 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
905 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
906 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
907 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
910 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
911 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
912 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
913 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
914 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
915 Documentation Tools</a>.
917 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
919 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
920 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
921 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
922 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
924 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
925 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
926 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
927 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
928 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
929 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
930 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
931 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
932 configuration file `machine.config'.
934 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
936 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
938 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
939 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
940 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
943 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
944 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
945 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
946 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
947 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
949 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
951 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
952 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
954 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
955 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
956 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
957 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
958 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
959 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
962 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
964 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
965 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
966 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
968 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
969 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
970 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
971 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
974 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
976 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
977 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
980 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
982 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
983 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
984 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
987 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
988 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
989 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
990 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
991 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
992 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
995 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
997 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
998 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
999 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
1000 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
1001 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
1002 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
1004 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
1005 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
1006 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
1008 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
1009 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
1010 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
1011 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
1012 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
1013 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
1014 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
1015 on making a good UI in the future.
1017 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
1018 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
1019 This is the substrate for implementing the
1020 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
1022 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
1023 classes implementation.
1025 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
1026 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
1027 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
1028 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
1029 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
1032 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
1035 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
1036 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
1037 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
1038 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
1039 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
1040 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
1041 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
1042 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
1044 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
1047 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
1048 announced an Apache module that hosts
1049 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
1050 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
1053 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
1055 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
1056 released a fresh version of <a
1057 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
1058 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
1060 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
1062 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1063 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1064 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
1066 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
1068 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
1069 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
1070 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
1073 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
1074 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
1077 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
1079 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
1081 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
1082 on par with the PPC port.
1084 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
1085 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
1086 code for the remoting infrastructure.
1088 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
1089 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
1092 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
1094 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
1095 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
1096 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
1097 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
1099 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
1100 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
1101 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
1102 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
1104 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
1105 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
1106 for structure marshaling.
1108 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
1109 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
1110 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
1111 to integrate with Patrik's code.
1113 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
1114 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
1115 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
1117 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
1120 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
1122 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
1123 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
1124 a successful free software project.
1126 The first, deserved, entry goes to
1127 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
1128 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
1129 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
1130 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
1134 Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see the olds news.