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12 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler:</a></b>
15 Self hosting on Linux and .NET
25 PowerPC: MacOS and Linux.
34 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM, SPARC, HPPA, SPARC v9
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39 <td>Webforms and WebServices working<br></td>
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46 All assemblies compile.
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67 <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/03/11/mono.html">Mar 18th, 2004</a>: Will Mono become?
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75 <a href="http://osdir.com/Article198.phtml">Dec 19th, 2003</a>: Editor's Choice Award.
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84 <a href="http://www.ftponline.com/wss/2003_TE/magazine/columns/trends">May 31st, 2003</a>: CLI integration.
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92 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">May 22nd, 2003</a>: Mono 1.0 plans.
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100 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">Mar 14th, 2003</a>: Whither Mono?
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108 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">Dec, 2002</a>: The Penguin takes flight.
115 The Mono project is an open source effort sponsored by <a
116 href="http://novell.com">Novell</a> to create a free
117 implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
121 Mono includes <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
122 C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">Common Language
123 Runtime</a> (CLR) for the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) and a
124 set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>. The
125 runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your
126 application. It implements both <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET</a>
127 and <a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a>.
130 If you have questions about the project, read <a
131 href="rationale.html">the project launch statement</a>
132 or visit our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
137 For details on the project's future direction, read the
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139 href="download.html">download</a> the latest software version.
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150 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono</a> or the <a
151 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk#</a> and
152 <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono
156 @item Apr 02, 2004: Mono C# Compiler gets CLS support; Basic Runtime Contribution from Mainsoft.
158 Marek Safar has been working for a few months on adding
159 support to the C# compiler to support the various checks required
160 by the Common Language Specification (CLS).
162 In the past the C# compiler was unable to flag any problems
163 related to the creation of cross-language libraries. Today
164 with this patch the compiler will properly flag errors in CLS
165 compliance. Tests for all of the errors have also been
168 <a href="http://www.mainsoft.com">Mainsoft</a> has contributed
169 an implementation of their Basic runtime to the project. The
170 runtime they wrote is written in Java and we are translating
171 this into C# code. The code will reach CVS within the next
174 Mainsoft also contributed an extensive regression test suite
175 for the Basic runtime, a port of the NIST XML tests and their
176 own in-house developed XML tests.
178 @item Mar 31st, 2004: Gtk# 0.18, MonoDoc 0.13, MonoDevelop 0.2 released
180 New versions of Gtk# and MonoDoc have been released.
182 Gtk# is available from <a
183 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# home page</a> and MonoDoc 0.13
184 is available from our <a href="download.html">download</a>
187 Gtk# now features [ConnectBefore] attribute for hooking up
188 signals; An automake/autoconf setup; the System.Drawing
189 dependency has been dropped and many more docs.
191 And <a href="http://www.monodevelop.com/">MonoDevelop 0.2</a>
194 @item Mar 18th, 2004: Mono 0.31 has been released
196 We have released version 0.31 of Mono. All the new features
197 and improvements are described in our <a
198 href="archive/mono-0.31.html">Mono 0.31 Release Notes</a>.
200 You can download Mono 0.31 packages using Red Carpet, or pick
201 the individual packages from our <a
202 href="download.html">download</a> page.
204 @item Mar 15th, 2004: Async IO lands on Mono.
206 Gonzalo has completed the implementation of Async I/O for Mono
207 using the kernel aio_* interfaces. If your operating system supports
208 the aio_ POSIX interface, the FileStream methods that
209 expose asynchronous methods will use this facility instead of
210 emulating it with threads as we have done in the past.
212 We had this request come to us from various people in the
213 past, and we are now looking for your help to test and debug
216 @item Mar 11th, 2004: Mono JIT ported to SPARC.
218 Zoltan Varga announced today that the SPARC port of the Mono
219 JIT engine has been completed. Congratulations to Zoltan for
220 this amazing development.
222 @item Feb 26th, 2004: Agenda: Mono Meeting in Boston.
224 The agenda for the Mono Meeting is now available: <a
225 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/MonoMeet.html">Mono Meeting
228 @item Feb 24th, 2004: Mono Meeting in Boston.
230 On March 5th-6th (Friday and Saturday) there will be an
231 open-house meeting for people interested in Mono to get
232 together with the Mono developers at the Novell offices in
233 in Cambridge Massachusetts (<a
234 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/contact/">directions</a>).
236 The whole Novell Mono team will be here (Atsushi Enomoto, Dick
237 Porter, Duncan Mak, Erik Dasque, Gonzalo Paniagua, Jackson
238 Harper, Jordi Mas, Lluis Sanches, Manjula, Martin Baulig,
239 Miguel de Icaza, Mike Kestner, Paolo Molaro, Peter Bartok,
240 Sebastien Pouliot, Sachin Kumar) and hopefully Joe Shaw, Nat
241 Friedman, Peter Williams and Ravi Pratap will be joining us as
242 well. Expect to see Todd Berman from MonoDevelop as well.
244 If you are coming, please notify <a
245 href="edasque@ximian.com">edasque@ximian.com</a> about it, so
246 we can add you to the security list, and use the `open house
247 confirmation' subject in your email.
249 @item Feb 13, 2004: Mono 0.30.1 released
251 We have released a small bug-fix release of Mono, the release
252 notes are available <a
253 href="archive/mono-0.30.1.html">here</a> and you can download
254 it from our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
256 @item Feb 13, 2004: Mono Performance Optimization
258 We have a new document that describes some <a
259 href="performance.html">common tricks to improve the
260 performance</a> of your Mono or .NET application. These are a
261 summary of techniques that we employed to tune our own C#
264 @item Feb 2nd, 2004: Mono 0.30 has been released
267 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.30.html">Release
268 notes</a> for details on Mono 0.30. Or go directly to our <a
269 href="download.html">download</a> section
271 @item Jan 18th, 2004: LDAP class libraries in Mono tutorial.
273 Sunil Kumar has written an <a
274 href="http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/cooldev/features/a_net_cplus_ldap_library_cdev.html">introduction
275 to Novell.LDAP</a> class libraries, which are part of Mono.
277 @item Jan 13th, 2004: MonoDoc 0.9 released.
279 A new edition of MonoDoc, the Mono Documentation Browser, has been released, available in source form from:
280 <a href="archive/monodoc-0.9.tar.gz">archive/monodoc-0.9.tar.gz</a>
282 @item Jan 11th, 2004: Call for Stories
284 If you have a success story about using Mono or one of the Mono
285 components in any way, we want to hear about you. Please mail
286 your details to miguel@ximian.com
288 @item Jan 4th, 2004: Windows Installer for Mono 0.29
290 There is a <a href="archive/mono-0.29-win32-1.exe">Windows
291 Installer for Mono 0.29</a> available now.
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