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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 us.</a>
23 You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
24 source</a> for our work so far. Grab a <a
25 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our current work, or <a
26 href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=mono">browse
30 href="mailing-lists.html">subscribe</a> to our mono-list
31 and mono-announce-list. There is also a <a
32 href="http://www.gotmono.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl">forum</a> at <a
33 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono</a>.
35 Wikis: <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk# Wiki</a>
36 and <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono
44 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
49 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
52 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
70 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM<br>
76 <td><b><a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a></b></td>
77 <td>Webforms and WebServices working<br></td>
81 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
84 All assemblies compile.
92 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
97 <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshots</a>
105 <b><center>In the news</center></b>
110 <img src="images/netmagazine.png">
113 <a href="http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2003_TE/magazine/columns/trends/default.asp">May 31st, 2003</a>: CLI integration.
118 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
121 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">May 22nd, 2003</a>: Mono 1.0 plans.
126 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
129 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">Mar 14th, 2003</a>: Whither Mono?
134 <img src="images/b2.png">
137 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">Dec, 2002</a>: The Penguin takes flight.
145 @item Aug 14th, 2003: Mono 0.26 has been released
147 A new version of Mono is available, the new features include:
148 <a href="http://www.cairographics.org/">Cairo support</a>, <a
149 href="http://remoting-corba.sf.net">Remoting.Corba</a>
150 support, as well as a managed XSLT implementation.
152 Existing features have been improved vastly: better
153 Windows.Forms, runtime, faster compiler, web services, better
154 compliance to the spec and more.
157 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.26.html">Release
158 notes</a> for details.
160 @item Aug 9th, 2003: Python for .NET Preview 2 available; Mono Documentation site up.
163 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-August/015313.html">announced</a>
164 the availability of his Python binding to .NET. This works
165 with .NET and Mono. For more information about it, see
166 Brian's site at <a href="
167 http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/">http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/</a>
169 We have uploaded the current Mono Documentation (core
170 libraries and Gtk#) to <a
171 href="http://mono.ximian.com:8080"/>http://mono.ximian.com:8080</a>.
172 The site is running the ASP.NET edition of <a
173 href="archive/monodoc-0.6.tar.gz">MonoDoc 0.6</a> on XSP.
175 @item Aug 6th, 2003: Winforms samples
177 Timothy Parez is coordinating the effort to create sample
178 programs that exercise the various Windows.Forms controls. We
179 are using this as graphical regression test suite for the Mono
182 The screenshots of the various widgets, together with the
183 source code is available on the <a
184 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">WineSamples</a>
186 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/">Mono Wiki</a>.
188 A new cvs module called `winforms' has been created that
189 contains the source code for the samples. To run the samples,
190 you can install the WineLib packages available from our <a
191 href="download.html">download page</a>.
193 @item Aug 5th, 2003: New Apache Module architecture: 1.3 and 2.x supported
195 Gonzalo rearchitected our Apache module for hosting Mono and
196 ASP.NET. The previous incarnation hosted a Mono runtime on
197 each Apache process, which lead to a slow setup for webforms.
198 The new setup uses a shared mono process for all the incoming
199 requests. Daniel later improved up the new architecture and
200 added dual support, so now in addition to Apache 2.x, we
201 support Apache 1.3 with the same codebase.
203 The new code is available on CVS, on module `mod_mono', and
204 now requires an XSP installation to be available.
206 @item Aug 4th, 2003: Ximian acquired by Novell.
208 Today <a href="http://www.novell.com">Novell</a> acquired <a
209 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a>. The press release is
211 href="http://www.ximian.com./about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=novell">here</a>.
213 Mono and Gnome form an integral part of the Novell strategy.
215 @item Jul 30th, 2003: Remoting.CORBA, Managed XSLT.
217 Today Lluis announced that Mono CVS contains all the fixes to
219 href="http://remoting-corba.sourceforge.net/">Remoting.CORBA</a>:
220 both client and server channels work; We are interested in people
221 testing it with other ORBs.
223 Ben checked-in today his managed implementation of Xslt that
224 we mentioned on Jul 19th; This uncovered various limitations
225 on the XPath implementation, which Piers has swifly removed.
226 Monodoc, NUnit and our Corcompare work with it. Since this is
227 implementation is not completed yet, we still support the
228 libxslt-based version by default. For more details on how to
229 try the new XSLT implementation, see <a
230 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001681.html">Ben's
233 @item Jul 27th, 2003: Wine packages and Daily Snapshots
235 MonoWine packages (used to run System.Windows.Forms) software
236 are now available from our (<a
237 href="download.html">download</a> page). You can track the
239 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">Wiki
242 We're now building daily snapshots of Mono. They come in
243 three distinct flavors:
246 * mono snapshot tarballs - These are 'release-style' tarballs and
247 contain everything necessary to setup a new
248 installation from scratch. This includes the Mono
249 runtime and all the assemblies we distribute.
251 * monocharge tarballs - These tarballs contain only
252 the assemblies built on that day.
254 * monolite tarballs - These tarballs contain a copy of
255 'corlib.dll', 'mcs.exe', 'System.dll', 'System.Xml.dll' and
256 'Mono.CSharp.Debugger.dll'. They can be used to
257 re-bootstrap an out-of-sync installation.
260 The daily builds are availble here: <a href="http://go-mono.com/daily">http://go-mono.com/daily</a>
262 If you find that the builds are broken, please notify Duncan.
264 @item Jul 19th, 2003: Recent developments
266 Since Mono has matured, we have limited the news on the site
267 to major accomplishments that are finished, but this week, it
268 is worth devoting some time to talk about some of the
269 work-in-progress projects that are progressing.
271 Jackson has added support to the IL assembler for generics as
272 well as to the PEAPI library, and it has assembled its first
273 generic program. Support for handling images with generics
274 has been on our file format reader for a while, but the JIT
275 engine is still incomplete.
277 On the XSLT world, Atsushi and Ben continue to make big
278 improvements. Ben recently got the prototype managed XSLT
279 implementation to run its first stylesheet. Although
280 currently Mono uses libxslt to implement the System.Xml.Xsl
281 namespace, to have a fully .NET compliant implementation we
282 will need a managed version, and this is the beginning of it.
284 Lluis recently posted an update on the <a
285 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001550.html">state
286 of WSDL</a> in Mono. Now that the web services runtime is
287 ready, the WSDL compiler becomes more important as a
290 Atsushi continues his work on the DTD validating reader in
291 System.Xml, as well as improving our XML Schema support.
293 @item Jul 14th, 2003: New build system; IPV6 support.
295 Peter Williams has contributed a new build system that
296 addresses many of the annoyance we had with our previous build
297 system. He has worked on this for a few weeks, and Gonzalo
298 helped test it and get it into CVS. We no longer have the
299 historical dual build system: make for Unix and nant for
302 This system also offers the opportunity to compile our class
303 libraries with different profiles (.NET 1.0, .NET 1.1 and the
304 various ECMA subsets).
306 Peter explains the new build system <a
307 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001506.html">here</a>
309 Jerome's IPV6 code has been checked into CVS; With Peter's new
310 build system, we will be able to expose it (as part of the
313 @item Jul 9th, 2003: ASP.NET web services, coverage tools.
315 Web Services keep advancing: now we also support server-side
316 authoring of Web Services as well as web service clients
317 (which shipped in Mono 0.25). This works using our ASP.NET
318 runtime, so it works with either XSP or the Apache module. The
319 new Web Services work from Lluis added the missing bits:
322 <li> Method calls with complex parameters (whatever XmlSerializer can currently serialize, which is a quite a lot).
323 <li> ref and out parameters.
324 <li> Soap headers (In, Out and InOut).
325 <li> Soap extensions, both global (configured in web.config) and particular to methods (configured using attributes).
328 For more details, see Lluis <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001449.html">post</a>
330 GUI-wise: Work on <a href="http://xr.xwin.org">Xr</a> to
331 implement System.Drawing continues. This will provide a full
332 GDI+ implementation for Mono, and this will be hooked up into
333 Gtk# and System.Windows.Forms.
335 MonoDoc keeps moving along, with a new web-based version
336 coming up next, and we are also exploring a collaborative
337 extension to allow people to contribute documentation through
340 Zoltan's Coverage analysis tool has been checked into CVS.
341 With this tool it is now possible to find which class library
342 code paths are missing regression tests. The module is
343 `monocov'. Details are <a
344 href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz/">here</a>. A fresh Gtk#
345 version is available now.
347 Jean's remoting-based Soap implenentation is also maturing.
349 @item Jun 26th: Mono 0.25 has been released.
351 We have released Mono 0.25. A list of the new features is
352 available <a href="archive/mono-0.25.html">here</a>.
354 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
355 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
357 @item Jun 17th, 2003: Web Services client; Profiling hooks
359 Lluis and Gonzalo have checked into CVS the support for web
360 services in the Mono runtime. This allows Mono to work as a
361 web services client. We still require a WSDL compiler to
362 compile the initial stub, but Erik has the beginning of a WSDL
363 compiler ready and Atsushi has continued work on his
364 experimental Xml Schema to C# class generator.
366 As part of this, the Mono Http runtime has been rewritten to
367 increase reliability, scalability and conformance to the
368 specs. Also our io-layer has been extended to not have
369 arbitrary limits. This was done as part of our collaboration
372 Paolo has commited the new pluggable profiling API to the Mono
373 runtime: now the profiler is built as a module, and a new code
374 coverage analysis has been checked in (and Zoltan already
375 added improvements to it).
377 Mark's Mozilla bindings continue to improve, and we will shortly
378 migrate the Mono documentation browser to use Mozilla, to take
379 advantage of the tutorial's use of CSS.
381 Jackson's work on the IL assembler and Ben on running
382 regression tests have provided us with a very needed tool in
383 the Mono toolkit. One of the last missing pieces on the SDK.
385 On the crypto world, we got Sebastien's certificate viewer
386 checked into CVS and the crypto code keeps advancing by leaps
389 Alexandre and Aleksey Work continues on Windows.Forms on top
390 of Wine and Gtk# (the former for full compatibility, the later
391 for ease-of-authoring).
393 Cesar checked in the beginning of the semantic analysis code
394 for his JScript compiler, and will be working on it full time.
396 @item Jun 11th, 2003: SourceGear and Ximian announce partnership
398 Ximian, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and server
399 solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption, today announced
400 that SourceGear Corporation will use Mono\x{2122} Project
401 technology to offer cross-platform versions of its
402 products. In addition, the companies have entered into a
403 development partnership under which Ximian® will provide
404 custom Mono development to enable delivery of SourceGear
405 products later this year. As a result, SourceGear will offer
406 both UNIX and Linux clients for its SourceGear Vault source
407 code management tool, enabling broader use of its solutions in
408 mixed-platform development organizations.
410 <a href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=sourcegear">Read more...</a>
412 Some technical details are available <a
413 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-June/014334.html">here</a>.
415 @item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches.
418 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-winforms-list/2003-May/000284.html">announced</a>
419 the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a library
420 that can be used dynamically from Mono. This work simplifies
421 the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer necessary
422 have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub program.
423 The patches are available <a
424 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/mono/">here</a>.
426 Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the <a
427 href="download.html">download page</a>.
429 @item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono
431 Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the <a
432 href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse IDE</a> running on top
433 of Mono+<a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a>.
435 A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found <a
436 href="images/ikvm-screenshot.png">here</a>
438 @item May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships
440 We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code
441 generation engine. A list of the new features is available <a
442 href="archive/mono-0.24.html">here</a>.
444 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
445 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
446 We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.
448 @item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
450 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released
451 their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso
452 3.0</a> database system. Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux.
453 On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and
454 ASP.NET. Congratulations to OpenLink for their release.
456 Virtuoso can be downloaded <a
457 href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a>
458 and a demo is available <a
459 href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>.
461 OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
464 Jon Udell wrote a small <a
465 href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a>
467 @item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.
469 Atsushi has created a <a
470 href="http://www24.brinkster.com/ginga/RelaxngValidatingReader/">RelaxNG</a>
471 validating XML reader.
473 There is activity on the <a
474 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono forums</a> and the <a
475 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/">Gtk# Wiki</a>
477 @item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out; Team pages.
479 The first book to cover Mono is out. This book is currently
480 only available in German, you can find it <a
481 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a>
483 We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a>
484 where we include a list of some of the people who have made
485 Mono possible. If you have CVS access, please update the page
486 to include your information.
488 @item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
490 The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
492 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a>
494 Zoltan has commited his <a
495 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed
496 allocation</a> patches to CVS as well.
498 @item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
500 Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
501 <a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool. Screenshots are <a
502 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
504 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>
506 Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
507 module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the <a
508 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>
510 The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
511 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>. Screenshots are
512 <a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>.
514 @item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
516 <a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
517 openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
519 @item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
521 <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue">
524 <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
525 What do you think about Mono?
527 Is your company involved with the development and
528 deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an
529 important part of your company's business application
530 strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
531 project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
532 and the use of Linux in business critical
535 If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
536 would like to talk with you. If interested, please
538 href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
544 @item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
546 Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
547 that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It
548 is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
549 Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
551 @item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
553 A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
554 notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. This is mostly a
555 bug fix release. No new features.
557 @item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
559 Mono 0.22 has been released. See the <a
560 href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix
563 A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
564 has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
566 Martin also announced a <a
567 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
568 release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
570 @item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
572 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
573 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
574 contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
577 Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug
578 fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
579 and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
580 and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the
581 point of running the <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual
584 @item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
586 A new mailing list for <a
587 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
588 Development</a> has been created.
590 @item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
592 Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
593 The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
595 Windows binary is available <a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">here</a>
597 @item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
599 Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
600 href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
601 Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
603 Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
604 handles ASP.NET. The code is available at <a
605 href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
607 Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
608 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
609 tests</a>. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
611 Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
612 momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
614 @item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
616 Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the <a
617 href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
618 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
619 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
620 and performance improvements.
623 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
625 <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
626 binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a
627 href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
629 @item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
631 With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
632 looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
633 of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
635 Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have
636 checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
637 how to complete this process <a
638 href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a
639 href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
640 for further discussion.
642 @item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates.
644 Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
645 Gnome. A screenshot can be seen <a
646 href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available
647 on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
648 straight binding to the C API.
651 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
652 an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
655 We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
656 JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
658 @item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
660 Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
661 as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
662 Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
663 advantage of Unix facilities.
665 A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
667 Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
668 If you want to contribute please read <a
669 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
672 Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
673 improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
674 has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
675 source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
676 (compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed
677 work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
678 generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
680 @item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
682 <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
683 Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
684 announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
686 @item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
689 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
690 release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
692 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
694 @item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
696 Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
697 World Expo. A description is <a
698 href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
701 href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
702 release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
703 shipping that uses Mono.
705 @item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
707 Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
708 href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
709 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
710 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
711 and performance improvements.
713 We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
714 screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
715 there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
716 progress on the documentation browser.
718 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
719 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
721 @item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
723 After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
724 released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
725 debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
726 unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
727 applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
730 Details of the release are available in <a
731 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
733 The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
734 The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
735 by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
736 applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
739 @item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
741 Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
743 MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
744 distribution, and MCS works with it.
746 Zoltan has managed to get <a
747 href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
748 for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
751 @item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
753 Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
754 href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
755 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
757 @item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
759 A new issue of the <a
760 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
761 Weekly News</a> has been published.
763 Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
764 that Sebastien has put together.
766 @item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
768 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
769 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
770 improved this to use implicit names as well.
772 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
773 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
774 per-thread basis now.
776 Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
777 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
778 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
779 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
780 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
782 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
783 statements on the grammar.
785 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
786 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
788 @item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
790 <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
791 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
792 their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
795 <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
796 href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
797 availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
799 Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
800 href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
801 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
802 of their product, also using Mono.
804 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
807 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
808 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
809 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
810 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
812 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
813 and its available from our <a
814 href="download.html">download</a> page.
816 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
818 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
820 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
821 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
822 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
824 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
825 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
826 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
827 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
828 asp.net has been released as well.
830 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
832 This release also includes a new exception handling system
833 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
834 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
836 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
838 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
839 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
840 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
841 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
844 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
845 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
846 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
848 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
851 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
854 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
855 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
856 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
857 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
859 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
860 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
861 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
862 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
863 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
864 server on Unix using Mono.
866 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
867 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
868 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
869 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
871 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
872 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
873 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
874 new test application that people can use to test their
875 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
876 you can participate in the <a
877 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
880 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
881 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
883 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
886 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
887 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
889 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
890 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
891 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
892 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
894 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
896 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
897 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
899 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
900 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
902 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
903 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
904 new technology are <a
905 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
906 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
908 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
909 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
910 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
912 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
913 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
916 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
917 see Windows screenshots for it <a
918 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
919 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
921 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
924 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
925 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
927 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
928 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
929 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
931 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
933 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
934 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
937 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
939 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
940 in Open Office file format.
942 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
944 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
945 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
947 Tim Coleman posted an <a
948 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
949 on the improvements in the System.Data
951 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
952 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
954 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
956 Tim's SqlClient is <a
957 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
958 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
959 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
960 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
962 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
964 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
965 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
966 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
967 been working on the Security classes.
969 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
970 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
971 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
972 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
974 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
975 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
977 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
980 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
981 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
983 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
985 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
988 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
989 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
990 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
991 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
992 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
993 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
995 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
996 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
997 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
998 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
999 list</a> mailing list.
1001 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
1002 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
1003 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
1004 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
1005 data adapter is also coming soon.
1007 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
1009 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
1010 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
1011 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
1012 are not supported by the .NET framework.
1014 Last week we created a new <a
1015 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
1016 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
1018 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
1019 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
1022 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
1024 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
1025 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
1026 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
1027 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
1028 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
1029 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
1030 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
1031 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
1032 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
1033 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
1035 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
1036 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
1037 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
1038 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
1039 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
1040 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
1041 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
1042 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
1045 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
1047 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
1048 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
1049 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
1051 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
1052 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
1054 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
1055 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
1056 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
1057 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
1058 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
1059 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
1060 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
1062 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
1063 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
1064 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
1065 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
1066 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
1069 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
1070 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
1071 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
1072 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
1073 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
1074 Documentation Tools</a>.
1076 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
1078 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
1079 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
1080 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
1081 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
1083 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
1084 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
1085 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
1086 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
1087 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
1088 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
1089 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
1090 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
1091 configuration file `machine.config'.
1093 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
1095 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
1097 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
1098 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
1099 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
1102 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
1103 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
1104 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
1105 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
1106 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
1108 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
1110 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
1111 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
1113 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
1114 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
1115 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
1116 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
1117 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
1118 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
1121 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
1123 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1124 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1125 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
1127 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
1128 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
1129 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
1130 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
1133 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
1135 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
1136 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
1139 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
1141 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
1142 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
1143 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
1146 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
1147 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
1148 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
1149 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
1150 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
1151 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
1154 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
1156 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
1157 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
1158 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
1159 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
1160 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
1161 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
1163 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
1164 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
1165 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
1167 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
1168 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
1169 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
1170 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
1171 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
1172 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
1173 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
1174 on making a good UI in the future.
1176 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
1177 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
1178 This is the substrate for implementing the
1179 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
1181 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
1182 classes implementation.
1184 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
1185 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
1186 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
1187 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
1188 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
1191 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
1194 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
1195 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
1196 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
1197 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
1198 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
1199 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
1200 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
1201 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
1203 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
1206 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
1207 announced an Apache module that hosts
1208 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
1209 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
1212 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
1214 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
1215 released a fresh version of <a
1216 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
1217 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
1219 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
1221 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1222 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1223 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
1225 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
1227 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
1228 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
1229 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
1232 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
1233 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
1236 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
1238 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
1240 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
1241 on par with the PPC port.
1243 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
1244 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
1245 code for the remoting infrastructure.
1247 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
1248 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
1251 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
1253 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
1254 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
1255 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
1256 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
1258 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
1259 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
1260 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
1261 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
1263 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
1264 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
1265 for structure marshaling.
1267 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
1268 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
1269 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
1270 to integrate with Patrik's code.
1272 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
1273 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
1274 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
1276 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
1279 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
1281 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
1282 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
1283 a successful free software project.
1285 The first, deserved, entry goes to
1286 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
1287 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
1288 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
1289 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
1293 Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see the olds news.