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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
21 Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact
22 us.</a> The project <a href="mono-roadmap.html">roadmap</a>.
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36 Wikis: <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk# Wiki</a>
37 and <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono
45 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
50 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
53 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
71 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM, SPARC, HPPA, SPARC v9 <br>
75 <td><b><a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a></b></td>
76 <td>Webforms and WebServices working<br></td>
80 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
83 All assemblies compile.
91 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
96 <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshots</a>
104 <b><center>In the news</center></b>
109 <img src="images/2003osdirwinnerbadge.gif">
112 <a href="http://osdir.com/Article198.phtml">Dec 19th, 2003</a>: Editor's Choice Award.
117 <img src="images/netmagazine.png">
120 <a href="http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2003_TE/magazine/columns/trends/default.asp">May 31st, 2003</a>: CLI integration.
125 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
128 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">May 22nd, 2003</a>: Mono 1.0 plans.
133 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
136 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">Mar 14th, 2003</a>: Whither Mono?
141 <img src="images/b2.png">
144 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">Dec, 2002</a>: The Penguin takes flight.
152 @item Jan 4, 2004: Windows Installer for Mono 0.29
154 There is a <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~jackson/mono-0.29-win32-1.exe">Windows Intaller for Mono 0.29</a> available now.
156 @item Dec 21st: Mono on PowerPC Progress.
158 Paolo reports today that the Mono JIT on the PowerPC was able
159 to successfully run the Mono C# compiler to build its first
160 programs. This is by no means complete (exception handling is
161 missing, and Boehm GC seems to fail on MacOS X), this shows
162 the excellent progress Paolo has been making.
164 Zoltan has added support for modules to MCS (generation and
167 @item Dec 10th: Mono Debugger 0.5 released
170 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~martin/blog/archives/000231.html">released</a>
171 a new version of the Mono Debugger.
173 @item Dec 2nd: Mono 0.29 has been released
176 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.29.html">Release
177 notes</a> for details on Mono 0.29.
179 This release includes the PPC JIT engine running `Hello World'
180 and ASP.NET is considered feature-complete.
182 @item Nov 25th: Gtk# 0.14, System.DirectoryServices
184 Gtk# 0.14 has been released, and it is available from <a
185 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">the Gtk# web site</a>.
187 Sunil has checked in the implementation of
188 System.DirectoryServices as well as the Novell.Directory.Ldap
191 @item Nov 14th: Gtk# 0.13 released.
194 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-November/016943.html">announced</a>
195 the release of the <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
196 GUI toolkit for .NET and Mono.
198 @item Nov 13th: Managed LDAP binding for Mono and .NET
200 Sunil Kumar at Novell has <a
201 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-November/016907.html">announced</a>
202 the availability of a fully managed implementation of LDAP for
203 Mono and the .NET Framework.
205 You can obtain the library from <a
206 href="http://forge.novell.com">Novell Forge's</a> <a
207 href="http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/cvs/cvsbrowse.php/ldapcsharp/CsharpLDAP">CSharpLDAP</a>
210 @item Nov 4th: Mono Roadmap announced.
212 The <a href="mono-roadmap.html">Mono Roadmap</a> and <a
213 href="mono-hacking-roadmap.html">Mono Hackers Roadmap</a> have
216 @item Oct 28th: Mono Get Together at the PDC. GTK# 0.12 Released.
218 We will be getting together at the West Tower Lobby on Tuesday
219 28th at 6pm to talk about the Mono project. You have 24 hours to
220 notify all of your friends, open source buddies and free software
223 We will bring Mono t-shirts.
225 Mike Kestner released <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> 0.12 today. GTK# source tar balls
226 and RPMs are available. A windows installer was contributed by Johannes Roith.
228 @item Oct 26th: Last Minute Mono BOF
230 The first in a series of undercover Mono BOFs at the PDC will take
231 place tonight at 7pm on the Academy meeting, in room 411. Come join us
232 to plot the evolution.
235 @item Oct 25th: GTK# 0.11+ Windows Installer available
237 Johannes created a <a href="http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/gtk-sharp/gtk-sharp-0.11-cvs.exe">Windows Installer for GTK# 0.11+</a> and works
238 with Mono 0.28 for Windows.
240 @item Oct 21st: Mono Community at Novell Forge
242 Mono Developers that are looking for a public repository for
243 hosting their projects can now use <a
244 href="http://forge.novell.com">Novell Forge's</a> which hosts
246 href="http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/community/?monocomm">Mono
249 Novell Forge offers mailing lists, cvs repository, bug
250 tracking and mailing list services and all the other services
251 you expect. Mono will continue to be hosted in our own CVS
252 repository, and using our <a href="anoncvs.html">anonymous CVS
255 @item Oct 13th: SPARC V9, HPPA, Internationalization, GdiPlus
257 Dick Porter has checked in our rewrite of the international
258 substrate in Mono that uses the <a
259 href="http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/">International
260 Components for Unicode</a> library from IBM. This means that
261 we got CultureInfo support through the whole code base now.
263 Alexandre Pigolkine has checked-in the new implementation of
264 System.Drawing. We have now dropped the old implementation
265 with multiple-backends that we had, and replaced it with an
266 implementation that P/Invokes into GDI+. A GDI+
267 implementation on top of <a
268 href="http://www.cairographics.org">Cairo</a> is used on Unix
269 systems. This step vastly simplifies the development and
270 maintenance of System.Drawing.
272 There are plenty of updates to Mono as well, we encourage you
274 href="http://www.go-mono.com/monologue">Monologue</a> to keep
275 an eye on recent developments.
277 Bernie Solomon just <a
278 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-October/002460.html">checked
279 in</a> 64-bit support for SPARC v9 and HPPA into the Mono
280 runtime. This also improves the SPARC-32 support.
282 @item Oct 6th: Linux s390 Mono packages available.
284 Neale Ferguson has contributed Mono packages for the
285 Linux/s390. You can get them from the <a
286 href="download.html">download</a> page.
288 @item Oct 5th: Monologue aggregates Mono Blogs
290 You can now read an aggregated view of the <a
291 href="blogs.html">blogs</a> maintained by Mono developers in
292 <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/monologue">Monologue</a>.
293 Monologue is available as an HTML page or as an <a
294 href="monologue/index.rss">RSS feed</a>.
296 @item Oct 2nd: Windows packages, MonoDoc 0.7
298 Windows packages for Mono 0.28 are now available from our <a
299 href="download.html">download</a> page.
301 A new version of MonoDoc has been released. The new version
302 is available <a href="archive/monodoc-0.7.tar.gz">here</a>
304 @item Oct 1st: Mono 0.28 has been released.
307 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.28.html">Release
308 notes</a> for details on Mono 0.28. This release marks the
309 completion of the SourceGear project to add web services
310 functionality to Mono and improve its reliability.
312 @item Sep 30th: Mono Kick Start book available
314 The Mono Kick Start book is now <a
315 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>
316 in English. Originally available only in <a
317 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">German</a>.
318 The book technical review was done by <a
319 href="http://www.maurer-it.com/">Dietmar Maurer</a> JIT
320 architect at the Mono team.
322 @item Sep 26th, 2003: DiaCanvas# 0.1 released, Gtk# 0.11 released.
325 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-September/002475.html">released</a>
326 a new version of <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>.
329 <a href="http://mwh.sysrq.dk/programs/announcements/diacanvas-sharp-0.1.0.html">released</a>
330 his binding to <a href="http://diacanvas.sf.net">DiaCanvas</a> for C#.
332 @item Sep 16th, 2003: WineLib, Authenticode, Generics, Xslt updates, Wsdl compiler, WSE.
334 <b>WineLib:</b> Vladimir has added new libraries to the Wine
335 process, which we will soon bring into our packages: the
336 various Windows common dialogs can now be used (screenshots:
337 <a href="images/colordlg.png">here</a>, <a
338 href="images/fontdlg.png">here</a>, <a
339 href="images/filedlg.png">here</a> and <a
340 href="images/finddlg.png">here</a>.
342 Johannes has patches to have Wine track the Gtk theme,
343 screenshot <a href="http://www.sport-huettn.de/jroith/swfsample.png">here</a>
345 <b>Security:</b> New authenticode support from Sebastien has
346 been checked into CVS.
348 <b>Xslt:</b> Plenty of conformance updates to the managed
349 implementation of Xslt, as well as breaking the libxslt speed
350 barrier. Our managed implementation is now faster than the
351 C-based libxslt that we used before.
353 <b>Generics:</b> Work continues on generics support, feel free
354 to try it out. The compiler is currently on a separate
355 directory until we stability it (gmcs) and you need to compile
356 the class libraries with the `generics' profile to try it
357 out. Sample generic programs are included in the CVS module.
359 <b>Wsdl:</b> We now have Wsdl support in Mono: a wsdl compiler
360 command line tool, and support on ASP.NET to generate the wsdl
361 file from an .asmx file.
363 <b>AOT:</b> Many robustness updates to the ahead-of-time
364 compiler and a new locking and threading system that avoids
365 having "big locks" around the mono kernel, and moves to a
366 fine-grained locking system. The design includes a lattice to
369 <b>Dogfooding:</b> We are now running Mono's ASP.NET on
370 go-mono.com to find problems. It is currently hosting our
371 Monodoc documentation. The <a
372 href="http://www.go-mono.com/docs/index.html">Apache module
373 version</a> and the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com:8080/">XSP
376 <b>WSE:</b> The Web Services Enhancements season has begun.
377 The Microsoft.Web.Services namespace and classes are now
380 @item Sep 1st, 2003: Ice for Mono; XmlSerializer generators; Monodoc progress.
382 <b>Ice:</b> Vladimir has checked into CVS (Module ginzu) an
383 implementation of <a href="http://www.zeroc.com">ZeroC's</a>
384 <a href="http://www.zeroc.com/ice.html">ICE</a> protocol. It
385 is implemented using Remoting. If you were looking for an
386 efficient binary protocol to use with Remoting, this is it.
388 ICE is simpler to use than CORBA, and was created by people
389 who were deeply involved in CORBA and wanted to fix its
390 problems (you can see a <a
391 href="http://www.zeroc.com/iceVsCorba.html">list of
394 <b>XmlSerializer</b>: Lluis has checked in a new technology
395 for use in our XmlSerializer: the XmlSerializer code
396 generator. Currently our XmlSerializer generates a
397 description of instructions for serializing data, these
398 instructions are later interpreted while using it: Reflection
399 is used to pull all the data. The code generator is the first
400 step into turning the Serializer from an intepreter into a
401 compiler and improving the performance of it.
403 Currently was used internally to implement the WSDL
404 serializer, in the future it will just be part of the standard
405 serialization process.
407 <b>MonoDoc:</b> New providers! Thanks to <a
408 href="http://www.jaggersoft.com/">Jon Jagger</a> for providing
409 us with his master XML files for the C# specification we now
410 have integrated the C# spec into Monodoc. Another provider is
411 the Error provider: now we include all the C# compiler errors
414 Alp has contributed various user interface improvement, and
415 updated our list widget for key navigation; Ben made the
416 matches window more useful and Joshua has helped us clean up
417 the ECMA provider even more.
419 @item Aug 14th, 2003: Mono 0.26 has been released
421 A new version of Mono is available, the new features include:
422 <a href="http://www.cairographics.org/">Cairo support</a>, <a
423 href="http://remoting-corba.sf.net">Remoting.Corba</a>
424 support, as well as a managed XSLT implementation.
426 Existing features have been improved vastly: better
427 Windows.Forms, runtime, faster compiler, web services, better
428 compliance to the spec and more.
431 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.26.html">Release
432 notes</a> for details.
434 @item Aug 9th, 2003: Python for .NET Preview 2 available; Mono Documentation site up.
437 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-August/015313.html">announced</a>
438 the availability of his Python binding to .NET. This works
439 with .NET and Mono. For more information about it, see
440 Brian's site at <a href="
441 http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/">http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/</a>
443 We have uploaded the current Mono Documentation (core
444 libraries and Gtk#) to <a
445 href="http://mono.ximian.com:8080"/>http://mono.ximian.com:8080</a>.
446 The site is running the ASP.NET edition of <a
447 href="archive/monodoc-0.6.tar.gz">MonoDoc 0.6</a> on XSP.
449 @item Aug 6th, 2003: Winforms samples
451 Timothy Parez is coordinating the effort to create sample
452 programs that exercise the various Windows.Forms controls. We
453 are using this as graphical regression test suite for the Mono
456 The screenshots of the various widgets, together with the
457 source code is available on the <a
458 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">WineSamples</a>
460 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/">Mono Wiki</a>.
462 A new cvs module called `winforms' has been created that
463 contains the source code for the samples. To run the samples,
464 you can install the WineLib packages available from our <a
465 href="download.html">download page</a>.
467 @item Aug 5th, 2003: New Apache Module architecture: 1.3 and 2.x supported
469 Gonzalo rearchitected our Apache module for hosting Mono and
470 ASP.NET. The previous incarnation hosted a Mono runtime on
471 each Apache process, which lead to a slow setup for webforms.
472 The new setup uses a shared mono process for all the incoming
473 requests. Daniel later improved up the new architecture and
474 added dual support, so now in addition to Apache 2.x, we
475 support Apache 1.3 with the same codebase.
477 The new code is available on CVS, on module `mod_mono', and
478 now requires an XSP installation to be available.
480 @item Aug 4th, 2003: Ximian acquired by Novell.
482 Today <a href="http://www.novell.com">Novell</a> acquired <a
483 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a>. The press release is
485 href="http://www.ximian.com./about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=novell">here</a>.
487 Mono and Gnome form an integral part of the Novell strategy.
489 @item Jul 30th, 2003: Remoting.CORBA, Managed XSLT.
491 Today Lluis announced that Mono CVS contains all the fixes to
493 href="http://remoting-corba.sourceforge.net/">Remoting.CORBA</a>:
494 both client and server channels work; We are interested in people
495 testing it with other ORBs.
497 Ben checked-in today his managed implementation of Xslt that
498 we mentioned on Jul 19th; This uncovered various limitations
499 on the XPath implementation, which Piers has swifly removed.
500 Monodoc, NUnit and our Corcompare work with it. Since this is
501 implementation is not completed yet, we still support the
502 libxslt-based version by default. For more details on how to
503 try the new XSLT implementation, see <a
504 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001681.html">Ben's
507 @item Jul 27th, 2003: Wine packages and Daily Snapshots
509 MonoWine packages (used to run System.Windows.Forms) software
510 are now available from our (<a
511 href="download.html">download</a> page). You can track the
513 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">Wiki
516 We're now building daily snapshots of Mono. They come in
517 three distinct flavors:
520 * mono snapshot tarballs - These are 'release-style' tarballs and
521 contain everything necessary to setup a new
522 installation from scratch. This includes the Mono
523 runtime and all the assemblies we distribute.
525 * monocharge tarballs - These tarballs contain only
526 the assemblies built on that day.
528 * monolite tarballs - These tarballs contain a copy of
529 'corlib.dll', 'mcs.exe', 'System.dll', 'System.Xml.dll' and
530 'Mono.CSharp.Debugger.dll'. They can be used to
531 re-bootstrap an out-of-sync installation.
534 The daily builds are availble here: <a href="http://go-mono.com/daily">http://go-mono.com/daily</a>
536 If you find that the builds are broken, please notify Duncan.
538 @item Jul 19th, 2003: Recent developments
540 Since Mono has matured, we have limited the news on the site
541 to major accomplishments that are finished, but this week, it
542 is worth devoting some time to talk about some of the
543 work-in-progress projects that are progressing.
545 Jackson has added support to the IL assembler for generics as
546 well as to the PEAPI library, and it has assembled its first
547 generic program. Support for handling images with generics
548 has been on our file format reader for a while, but the JIT
549 engine is still incomplete.
551 On the XSLT world, Atsushi and Ben continue to make big
552 improvements. Ben recently got the prototype managed XSLT
553 implementation to run its first stylesheet. Although
554 currently Mono uses libxslt to implement the System.Xml.Xsl
555 namespace, to have a fully .NET compliant implementation we
556 will need a managed version, and this is the beginning of it.
558 Lluis recently posted an update on the <a
559 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001550.html">state
560 of WSDL</a> in Mono. Now that the web services runtime is
561 ready, the WSDL compiler becomes more important as a
564 Atsushi continues his work on the DTD validating reader in
565 System.Xml, as well as improving our XML Schema support.
567 @item Jul 14th, 2003: New build system; IPV6 support.
569 Peter Williams has contributed a new build system that
570 addresses many of the annoyance we had with our previous build
571 system. He has worked on this for a few weeks, and Gonzalo
572 helped test it and get it into CVS. We no longer have the
573 historical dual build system: make for Unix and nant for
576 This system also offers the opportunity to compile our class
577 libraries with different profiles (.NET 1.0, .NET 1.1 and the
578 various ECMA subsets).
580 Peter explains the new build system <a
581 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001506.html">here</a>
583 Jerome's IPV6 code has been checked into CVS; With Peter's new
584 build system, we will be able to expose it (as part of the
587 @item Jul 9th, 2003: ASP.NET web services, coverage tools.
589 Web Services keep advancing: now we also support server-side
590 authoring of Web Services as well as web service clients
591 (which shipped in Mono 0.25). This works using our ASP.NET
592 runtime, so it works with either XSP or the Apache module. The
593 new Web Services work from Lluis added the missing bits:
596 <li> Method calls with complex parameters (whatever XmlSerializer can currently serialize, which is a quite a lot).
597 <li> ref and out parameters.
598 <li> Soap headers (In, Out and InOut).
599 <li> Soap extensions, both global (configured in web.config) and particular to methods (configured using attributes).
602 For more details, see Lluis <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001449.html">post</a>
604 GUI-wise: Work on <a href="http://xr.xwin.org">Xr</a> to
605 implement System.Drawing continues. This will provide a full
606 GDI+ implementation for Mono, and this will be hooked up into
607 Gtk# and System.Windows.Forms.
609 MonoDoc keeps moving along, with a new web-based version
610 coming up next, and we are also exploring a collaborative
611 extension to allow people to contribute documentation through
614 Zoltan's Coverage analysis tool has been checked into CVS.
615 With this tool it is now possible to find which class library
616 code paths are missing regression tests. The module is
617 `monocov'. Details are <a
618 href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz/">here</a>. A fresh Gtk#
619 version is available now.
621 Jean's remoting-based Soap implenentation is also maturing.
623 @item Jun 26th: Mono 0.25 has been released.
625 We have released Mono 0.25. A list of the new features is
626 available <a href="archive/mono-0.25.html">here</a>.
628 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
629 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
631 @item Jun 17th, 2003: Web Services client; Profiling hooks
633 Lluis and Gonzalo have checked into CVS the support for web
634 services in the Mono runtime. This allows Mono to work as a
635 web services client. We still require a WSDL compiler to
636 compile the initial stub, but Erik has the beginning of a WSDL
637 compiler ready and Atsushi has continued work on his
638 experimental Xml Schema to C# class generator.
640 As part of this, the Mono Http runtime has been rewritten to
641 increase reliability, scalability and conformance to the
642 specs. Also our io-layer has been extended to not have
643 arbitrary limits. This was done as part of our collaboration
646 Paolo has commited the new pluggable profiling API to the Mono
647 runtime: now the profiler is built as a module, and a new code
648 coverage analysis has been checked in (and Zoltan already
649 added improvements to it).
651 Mark's Mozilla bindings continue to improve, and we will shortly
652 migrate the Mono documentation browser to use Mozilla, to take
653 advantage of the tutorial's use of CSS.
655 Jackson's work on the IL assembler and Ben on running
656 regression tests have provided us with a very needed tool in
657 the Mono toolkit. One of the last missing pieces on the SDK.
659 On the crypto world, we got Sebastien's certificate viewer
660 checked into CVS and the crypto code keeps advancing by leaps
663 Alexandre and Aleksey Work continues on Windows.Forms on top
664 of Wine and Gtk# (the former for full compatibility, the later
665 for ease-of-authoring).
667 Cesar checked in the beginning of the semantic analysis code
668 for his JScript compiler, and will be working on it full time.
670 @item Jun 11th, 2003: SourceGear and Ximian announce partnership
672 Ximian, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and server
673 solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption, today announced
674 that SourceGear Corporation will use Mono\x{2122} Project
675 technology to offer cross-platform versions of its
676 products. In addition, the companies have entered into a
677 development partnership under which Ximian will provide
678 custom Mono development to enable delivery of SourceGear
679 products later this year. As a result, SourceGear will offer
680 both UNIX and Linux clients for its SourceGear Vault source
681 code management tool, enabling broader use of its solutions in
682 mixed-platform development organizations.
684 <a href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=sourcegear">Read more...</a>
686 Some technical details are available <a
687 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-June/014334.html">here</a>.
689 @item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches.
692 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-winforms-list/2003-May/000284.html">announced</a>
693 the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a library
694 that can be used dynamically from Mono. This work simplifies
695 the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer necessary
696 have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub program.
697 The patches are available <a
698 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/mono/">here</a>.
700 Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the <a
701 href="download.html">download page</a>.
703 @item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono
705 Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the <a
706 href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse IDE</a> running on top
707 of Mono+<a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a>.
709 A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found <a
710 href="images/ikvm-screenshot.png">here</a>
712 @item May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships
714 We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code
715 generation engine. A list of the new features is available <a
716 href="archive/mono-0.24.html">here</a>.
718 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
719 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
720 We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.
722 @item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
724 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released
725 their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso
726 3.0</a> database system. Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux.
727 On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and
728 ASP.NET. Congratulations to OpenLink for their release.
730 Virtuoso can be downloaded <a
731 href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a>
732 and a demo is available <a
733 href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>.
735 OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
738 Jon Udell wrote a small <a
739 href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a>
741 @item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.
743 Atsushi has created a <a
744 href="http://www24.brinkster.com/ginga/RelaxngValidatingReader/">RelaxNG</a>
745 validating XML reader.
747 There is activity on the <a
748 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono forums</a> and the <a
749 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/">Gtk# Wiki</a>
751 @item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out; Team pages.
753 The first book to cover Mono is out. This book is currently
754 only available in German, you can find it <a
755 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a>
757 We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a>
758 where we include a list of some of the people who have made
759 Mono possible. If you have CVS access, please update the page
760 to include your information.
762 @item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
764 The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
766 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a>
768 Zoltan has commited his <a
769 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed
770 allocation</a> patches to CVS as well.
772 @item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
774 Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
775 <a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool. Screenshots are <a
776 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
778 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>
780 Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
781 module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the <a
782 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>
784 The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
785 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>. Screenshots are
786 <a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>.
788 @item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
790 <a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
791 openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
793 @item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
795 <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue">
798 <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
799 What do you think about Mono?
801 Is your company involved with the development and
802 deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an
803 important part of your company's business application
804 strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
805 project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
806 and the use of Linux in business critical
809 If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
810 would like to talk with you. If interested, please
812 href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
818 @item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
820 Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
821 that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It
822 is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
823 Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
825 @item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
827 A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
828 notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. This is mostly a
829 bug fix release. No new features.
831 @item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
833 Mono 0.22 has been released. See the <a
834 href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix
837 A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
838 has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
840 Martin also announced a <a
841 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
842 release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
844 @item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
846 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
847 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
848 contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
851 Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug
852 fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
853 and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
854 and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the
855 point of running the <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual
858 @item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
860 A new mailing list for <a
861 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
862 Development</a> has been created.
864 @item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
866 Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
867 The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
869 Windows binary is available <a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">here</a>
871 @item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
873 Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
874 href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
875 Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
877 Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
878 handles ASP.NET. The code is available at <a
879 href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
881 Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
882 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
883 tests</a>. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
885 Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
886 momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
888 @item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
890 Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the <a
891 href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
892 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
893 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
894 and performance improvements.
897 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
899 <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
900 binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a
901 href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
903 @item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
905 With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
906 looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
907 of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
909 Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have
910 checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
911 how to complete this process <a
912 href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a
913 href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
914 for further discussion.
916 @item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates.
918 Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
919 Gnome. A screenshot can be seen <a
920 href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available
921 on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
922 straight binding to the C API.
925 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
926 an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
929 We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
930 JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
932 @item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
934 Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
935 as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
936 Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
937 advantage of Unix facilities.
939 A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
941 Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
942 If you want to contribute please read <a
943 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
946 Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
947 improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
948 has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
949 source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
950 (compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed
951 work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
952 generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
954 @item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
956 <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
957 Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
958 announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
960 @item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
963 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
964 release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
966 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
968 @item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
970 Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
971 World Expo. A description is <a
972 href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
975 href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
976 release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
977 shipping that uses Mono.
979 @item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
981 Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
982 href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
983 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
984 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
985 and performance improvements.
987 We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
988 screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
989 there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
990 progress on the documentation browser.
992 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
993 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
995 @item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
997 After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
998 released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
999 debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
1000 unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
1001 applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
1004 Details of the release are available in <a
1005 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
1007 The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
1008 The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
1009 by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
1010 applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
1013 @item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
1015 Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
1017 MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
1018 distribution, and MCS works with it.
1020 Zoltan has managed to get <a
1021 href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
1022 for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
1025 @item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
1027 Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
1028 href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
1029 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
1031 @item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
1033 A new issue of the <a
1034 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
1035 Weekly News</a> has been published.
1037 Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
1038 that Sebastien has put together.
1040 @item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
1042 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
1043 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
1044 improved this to use implicit names as well.
1046 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
1047 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
1048 per-thread basis now.
1050 Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
1051 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
1052 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
1053 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
1054 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
1056 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
1057 statements on the grammar.
1059 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
1060 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
1062 @item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
1064 <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
1065 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
1066 their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
1069 <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
1070 href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
1071 availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
1073 Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
1074 href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
1075 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
1076 of their product, also using Mono.
1078 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
1081 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
1082 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
1083 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
1084 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
1086 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
1087 and its available from our <a
1088 href="download.html">download</a> page.
1090 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
1092 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
1094 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
1095 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
1096 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
1098 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
1099 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
1100 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
1101 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
1102 asp.net has been released as well.
1104 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
1106 This release also includes a new exception handling system
1107 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
1108 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
1110 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
1112 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
1113 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
1114 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
1115 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
1118 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
1119 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
1120 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
1122 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
1125 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
1128 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
1129 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
1130 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
1131 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
1133 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
1134 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
1135 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
1136 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
1137 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
1138 server on Unix using Mono.
1140 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
1141 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
1142 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
1143 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
1145 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
1146 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
1147 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
1148 new test application that people can use to test their
1149 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
1150 you can participate in the <a
1151 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
1154 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
1155 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
1157 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
1158 server</a> for Mono.
1160 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
1161 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
1163 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
1164 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
1165 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
1166 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
1168 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
1170 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
1171 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
1173 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
1174 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
1176 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
1177 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
1178 new technology are <a
1179 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
1180 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
1182 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
1183 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
1184 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
1186 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
1187 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
1190 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
1191 see Windows screenshots for it <a
1192 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
1193 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
1195 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
1198 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
1199 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
1201 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
1202 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
1203 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
1205 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
1207 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
1208 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
1211 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
1213 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
1214 in Open Office file format.
1216 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
1218 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
1219 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
1221 Tim Coleman posted an <a
1222 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
1223 on the improvements in the System.Data
1225 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
1226 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
1228 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
1230 Tim's SqlClient is <a
1231 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
1232 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
1233 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
1234 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
1236 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
1238 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
1239 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
1240 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
1241 been working on the Security classes.
1243 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
1244 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
1245 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
1246 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
1248 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
1249 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
1251 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
1254 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
1255 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
1257 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
1259 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
1262 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
1263 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
1264 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
1265 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
1266 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
1267 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
1269 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
1270 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
1271 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
1272 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
1273 list</a> mailing list.
1275 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
1276 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
1277 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
1278 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
1279 data adapter is also coming soon.
1281 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
1283 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
1284 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
1285 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
1286 are not supported by the .NET framework.
1288 Last week we created a new <a
1289 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
1290 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
1292 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
1293 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
1296 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
1298 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
1299 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
1300 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
1301 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
1302 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
1303 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
1304 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
1305 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
1306 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
1307 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
1309 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
1310 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
1311 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
1312 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
1313 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
1314 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
1315 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
1316 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
1319 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
1321 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
1322 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
1323 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
1325 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
1326 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
1328 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
1329 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
1330 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
1331 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
1332 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
1333 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
1334 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
1336 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
1337 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
1338 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
1339 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
1340 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
1343 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
1344 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
1345 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
1346 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
1347 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
1348 Documentation Tools</a>.
1350 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
1352 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
1353 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
1354 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
1355 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
1357 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
1358 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
1359 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
1360 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
1361 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
1362 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
1363 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
1364 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
1365 configuration file `machine.config'.
1367 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
1369 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
1371 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
1372 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
1373 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
1376 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
1377 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
1378 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
1379 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
1380 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
1382 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
1384 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
1385 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
1387 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
1388 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
1389 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
1390 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
1391 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
1392 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
1395 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
1397 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1398 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1399 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
1401 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
1402 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
1403 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
1404 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
1407 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
1409 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
1410 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
1413 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
1415 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
1416 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
1417 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
1420 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
1421 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
1422 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
1423 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
1424 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
1425 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
1428 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
1430 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
1431 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
1432 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
1433 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
1434 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
1435 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
1437 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
1438 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
1439 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
1441 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
1442 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
1443 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
1444 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
1445 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
1446 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
1447 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
1448 on making a good UI in the future.
1450 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
1451 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
1452 This is the substrate for implementing the
1453 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
1455 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
1456 classes implementation.
1458 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
1459 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
1460 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
1461 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
1462 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
1465 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
1468 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
1469 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
1470 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
1471 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
1472 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
1473 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
1474 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
1475 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
1477 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
1480 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
1481 announced an Apache module that hosts
1482 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
1483 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
1486 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
1488 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
1489 released a fresh version of <a
1490 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
1491 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
1493 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
1495 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1496 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1497 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
1499 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
1501 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
1502 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
1503 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
1506 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
1507 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
1510 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
1512 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
1514 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
1515 on par with the PPC port.
1517 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
1518 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
1519 code for the remoting infrastructure.
1521 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
1522 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
1525 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
1527 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
1528 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
1529 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
1530 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
1532 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
1533 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
1534 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
1535 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
1537 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
1538 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
1539 for structure marshaling.
1541 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
1542 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
1543 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
1544 to integrate with Patrik's code.
1546 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
1547 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
1548 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
1550 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
1553 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
1555 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
1556 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
1557 a successful free software project.
1559 The first, deserved, entry goes to
1560 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
1561 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
1562 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
1563 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
1567 Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see the olds news.