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6 <a href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> announced the
7 launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an open source
8 implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
10 Mono includes: <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
11 C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">runtime</a> for the
12 Common Language Infrastructure (also referred as the CLR) and a
13 set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>. The
14 runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your
17 Mono has implementations of both <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a>
18 and <a href="asp-net">ASP.NET</a> as part of its distribution.
20 You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
21 this project. If you have questions about the project, please
22 read our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
23 Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact us.</a>
25 You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
26 source</a> for our work so far. Grab a <a
27 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our current work, or <a
28 href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=mono">browse
32 href="mailing-lists.html">subscribe</a> to our mono-list
33 and mono-announce-list. There is also a <a
34 href="http://www.gotmono.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl">forum</a> at <a
35 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono</a>.
37 You can contact the team at: <a
38 href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">mono-list@ximian.com</a>
40 In order to follow the process of the project and to learn more
41 about the team members we have created the <a
42 href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/index.html">Mono Weekly News letter</a>.
43 Which archives can be found <a
44 href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/archives.html">here</a>.
45 We have a <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk# Wiki</a>
46 and a <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono Wiki</a>
53 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
58 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
61 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
79 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM<br>
85 <td><b><a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a></b></td>
86 <td>Webforms working<br></td>
90 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
93 All assemblies compile.
101 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
106 <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshots</a>
114 <b><center>In the news</center></b>
119 <img src="images/netmagazine.png">
122 <a href="http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2003_TE/magazine/columns/trends/default.asp">May 31st, 2003</a>: CLI integration.
127 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
130 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">May 22nd, 2003</a>: Mono 1.0 plans.
135 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
138 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">Mar 14th, 2003</a>: Whither Mono?
143 <img src="images/b2.png">
146 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">Dec, 2002</a>: The Penguin takes flight.
154 @item Jun 26th: Mono 0.25 has been released.
156 We have released Mono 0.25. A list of the new features is
157 available <a href="archive/mono-0.25.html">here</a>.
159 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
160 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
162 @item Jun 17th, 2003: Web Services client; Profiling hooks
164 Lluis and Gonzalo have checked into CVS the support for web
165 services in the Mono runtime. This allows Mono to work as a
166 web services client. We still require a WSDL compiler to
167 compile the initial stub, but Erik has the beginning of a WSDL
168 compiler ready and Atsushi has continued work on his
169 experimental Xml Schema to C# class generator.
171 As part of this, the Mono Http runtime has been rewritten to
172 increase reliability, scalability and conformance to the
173 specs. Also our io-layer has been extended to not have
174 arbitrary limits. This was done as part of our collaboration
177 Paolo has commited the new pluggable profiling API to the Mono
178 runtime: now the profiler is built as a module, and a new code
179 coverage analysis has been checked in (and Zoltan already
180 added improvements to it).
182 Mark's Mozilla bindings continue to improve, and we will shortly
183 migrate the Mono documentation browser to use Mozilla, to take
184 advantage of the tutorial's use of CSS.
186 Jackson's work on the IL assembler and Ben on running
187 regression tests have provided us with a very needed tool in
188 the Mono toolkit. One of the last missing pieces on the SDK.
190 On the crypto world, we got Sebastien's certificate viewer
191 checked into CVS and the crypto code keeps advancing by leaps
194 Alexandre and Aleksey Work continues on Windows.Forms on top
195 of Wine and Gtk# (the former for full compatibility, the later
196 for ease-of-authoring).
198 Cesar checked in the beginning of the semantic analysis code
199 for his JScript compiler, and will be working on it full time.
201 @item Jun 11th, 2003: SourceGear and Ximian announce partnership
203 Ximian, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and server
204 solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption, today announced
205 that SourceGear Corporation will use Mono\x{2122} Project
206 technology to offer cross-platform versions of its
207 products. In addition, the companies have entered into a
208 development partnership under which Ximian® will provide
209 custom Mono development to enable delivery of SourceGear
210 products later this year. As a result, SourceGear will offer
211 both UNIX and Linux clients for its SourceGear Vault source
212 code management tool, enabling broader use of its solutions in
213 mixed-platform development organizations.
215 <a href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=sourcegear">Read more...</a>
217 Some technical details are available <a
218 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-June/014334.html">here</a>.
220 @item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches.
223 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-winforms-list/2003-May/000284.html">announced</a>
224 the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a library
225 that can be used dynamically from Mono. This work simplifies
226 the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer necessary
227 have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub program.
228 The patches are available <a
229 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/mono/">here</a>.
231 Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the <a
232 href="download.html">download page</a>.
234 @item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono
236 Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the <a
237 href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse IDE</a> running on top
238 of Mono+<a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a>.
240 A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found <a
241 href="images/ikvm-screenshot.png">here</a>
243 @item May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships
245 We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code
246 generation engine. A list of the new features is available <a
247 href="archive/mono-0.24.html">here</a>.
249 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
250 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
251 We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.
253 @item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
255 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released
256 their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso
257 3.0</a> database system. Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux.
258 On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and
259 ASP.NET. Congratulations to OpenLink for their release.
261 Virtuoso can be downloaded <a
262 href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a>
263 and a demo is available <a
264 href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>.
266 OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
269 Jon Udell wrote a small <a
270 href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a>
272 @item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.
274 Atsushi has created a <a
275 href="http://www24.brinkster.com/ginga/RelaxngValidatingReader/">RelaxNG</a>
276 validating XML reader.
278 There is activity on the <a
279 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono forums</a> and the <a
280 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/">Gtk# Wiki</a>
282 @item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out; Team pages.
284 The first book to cover Mono is out. This book is currently
285 only available in German, you can find it <a
286 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a>
288 We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a>
289 where we include a list of some of the people who have made
290 Mono possible. If you have CVS access, please update the page
291 to include your information.
293 @item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
295 The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
297 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a>
299 Zoltan has commited his <a
300 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed
301 allocation</a> patches to CVS as well.
303 @item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
305 Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
306 <a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool. Screenshots are <a
307 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
309 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>
311 Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
312 module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the <a
313 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>
315 The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
316 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>. Screenshots are
317 <a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>.
319 @item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
321 <a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
322 openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
324 @item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
326 <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue">
329 <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
330 What do you think about Mono?
332 Is your company involved with the development and
333 deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an
334 important part of your company's business application
335 strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
336 project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
337 and the use of Linux in business critical
340 If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
341 would like to talk with you. If interested, please
343 href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
349 @item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
351 Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
352 that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It
353 is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
354 Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
356 @item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
358 A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
359 notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. This is mostly a
360 bug fix release. No new features.
362 @item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
364 Mono 0.22 has been released. See the <a
365 href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix
368 A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
369 has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
371 Martin also announced a <a
372 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
373 release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
375 @item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
377 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
378 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
379 contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
382 Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug
383 fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
384 and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
385 and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the
386 point of running the <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual
389 @item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
391 A new mailing list for <a
392 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
393 Development</a> has been created.
395 @item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
397 Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
398 The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
400 Windows binary is available <a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">here</a>
402 @item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
404 Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
405 href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
406 Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
408 Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
409 handles ASP.NET. The code is available at <a
410 href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
412 Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
413 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
414 tests</a>. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
416 Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
417 momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
419 @item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
421 Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the <a
422 href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
423 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
424 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
425 and performance improvements.
428 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
430 <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
431 binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a
432 href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
434 @item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
436 With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
437 looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
438 of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
440 Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have
441 checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
442 how to complete this process <a
443 href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a
444 href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
445 for further discussion.
447 @item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates.
449 Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
450 Gnome. A screenshot can be seen <a
451 href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available
452 on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
453 straight binding to the C API.
456 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
457 an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
460 We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
461 JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
463 @item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
465 Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
466 as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
467 Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
468 advantage of Unix facilities.
470 A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
472 Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
473 If you want to contribute please read <a
474 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
477 Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
478 improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
479 has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
480 source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
481 (compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed
482 work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
483 generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
485 @item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
487 <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
488 Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
489 announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
491 @item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
494 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
495 release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
497 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
499 @item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
501 Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
502 World Expo. A description is <a
503 href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
506 href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
507 release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
508 shipping that uses Mono.
510 @item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
512 Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
513 href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
514 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
515 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
516 and performance improvements.
518 We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
519 screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
520 there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
521 progress on the documentation browser.
523 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
524 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
526 @item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
528 After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
529 released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
530 debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
531 unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
532 applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
535 Details of the release are available in <a
536 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
538 The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
539 The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
540 by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
541 applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
544 @item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
546 Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
548 MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
549 distribution, and MCS works with it.
551 Zoltan has managed to get <a
552 href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
553 for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
556 @item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
558 Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
559 href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
560 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
562 @item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
564 A new issue of the <a
565 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
566 Weekly News</a> has been published.
568 Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
569 that Sebastien has put together.
571 @item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
573 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
574 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
575 improved this to use implicit names as well.
577 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
578 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
579 per-thread basis now.
581 Daniel LĂłpez has checked in his Apache module to integrate
582 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
583 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
584 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
585 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
587 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
588 statements on the grammar.
590 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
591 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
593 @item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
595 <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
596 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
597 their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
600 <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
601 href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
602 availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
604 Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
605 href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
606 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
607 of their product, also using Mono.
609 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
612 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
613 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
614 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
615 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
617 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
618 and its available from our <a
619 href="download.html">download</a> page.
621 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
623 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
625 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
626 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
627 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
629 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
630 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
631 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
632 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
633 asp.net has been released as well.
635 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
637 This release also includes a new exception handling system
638 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
639 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
641 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
643 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
644 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
645 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
646 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
649 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
650 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
651 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
653 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
656 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
659 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
660 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
661 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
662 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
664 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
665 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
666 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
667 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
668 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
669 server on Unix using Mono.
671 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
672 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
673 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
674 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
676 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
677 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
678 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
679 new test application that people can use to test their
680 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
681 you can participate in the <a
682 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
685 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
686 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
688 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
691 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
692 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
694 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
695 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
696 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
697 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
699 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
701 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
702 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
704 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
705 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
707 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
708 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
709 new technology are <a
710 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
711 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
713 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
714 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
715 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
717 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
718 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
721 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
722 see Windows screenshots for it <a
723 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
724 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
726 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
729 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
730 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
732 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
733 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
734 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
736 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
738 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
739 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
742 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
744 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
745 in Open Office file format.
747 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
749 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
750 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
752 Tim Coleman posted an <a
753 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
754 on the improvements in the System.Data
756 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
757 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
759 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
761 Tim's SqlClient is <a
762 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
763 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
764 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
765 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
767 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
769 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
770 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
771 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
772 been working on the Security classes.
774 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
775 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
776 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
777 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
779 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
780 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
782 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
785 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
786 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
788 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
790 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
793 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
794 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
795 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
796 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
797 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
798 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
800 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
801 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
802 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
803 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
804 list</a> mailing list.
806 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
807 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
808 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
809 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
810 data adapter is also coming soon.
812 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
814 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
815 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
816 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
817 are not supported by the .NET framework.
819 Last week we created a new <a
820 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
821 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
823 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
824 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
827 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
829 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
830 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
831 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
832 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
833 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
834 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
835 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
836 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
837 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
838 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
840 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
841 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
842 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
843 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
844 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
845 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
846 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
847 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
850 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
852 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
853 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
854 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
856 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
857 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
859 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
860 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
861 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
862 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
863 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
864 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
865 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
867 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
868 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
869 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
870 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
871 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
874 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
875 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
876 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
877 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
878 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
879 Documentation Tools</a>.
881 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
883 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
884 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
885 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
886 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
888 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
889 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
890 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
891 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
892 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
893 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
894 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
895 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
896 configuration file `machine.config'.
898 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
900 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
902 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
903 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
904 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
907 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
908 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
909 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
910 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
911 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
913 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
915 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
916 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
918 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
919 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
920 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
921 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
922 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
923 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
926 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
928 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
929 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
930 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
932 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
933 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
934 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
935 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
938 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
940 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
941 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
944 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
946 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
947 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
948 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
951 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
952 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
953 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
954 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
955 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
956 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
959 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
961 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
962 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
963 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
964 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
965 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
966 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
968 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
969 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
970 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
972 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
973 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
974 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
975 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
976 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
977 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
978 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
979 on making a good UI in the future.
981 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
982 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
983 This is the substrate for implementing the
984 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
986 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
987 classes implementation.
989 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
990 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
991 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
992 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
993 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
996 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
999 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
1000 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
1001 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
1002 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
1003 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
1004 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
1005 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
1006 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
1008 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
1011 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
1012 announced an Apache module that hosts
1013 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
1014 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
1017 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
1019 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
1020 released a fresh version of <a
1021 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
1022 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
1024 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
1026 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1027 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1028 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
1030 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
1032 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
1033 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
1034 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
1037 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
1038 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
1041 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
1043 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
1045 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
1046 on par with the PPC port.
1048 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
1049 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
1050 code for the remoting infrastructure.
1052 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
1053 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
1056 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
1058 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
1059 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
1060 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
1061 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
1063 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
1064 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
1065 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
1066 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
1068 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
1069 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
1070 for structure marshaling.
1072 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
1073 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
1074 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
1075 to integrate with Patrik's code.
1077 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
1078 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
1079 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
1081 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
1084 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
1086 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
1087 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
1088 a successful free software project.
1090 The first, deserved, entry goes to
1091 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
1092 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
1093 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
1094 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
1098 Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see the olds news.