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6 <a href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> announced the
7 launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an open source
8 implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
10 Mono includes: <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
11 C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">runtime</a> for the
12 Common Language Infrastructure (also referred as the CLR) and a
13 set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>. The
14 runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your
17 Mono has implementations of both <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a>
18 and <a href="asp-net">ASP.NET</a> as part of its distribution.
20 You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
21 this project. If you have questions about the project, please
22 read our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
23 Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact us.</a>
25 You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
26 source</a> for our work so far. Grab a <a
27 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our current work, or <a
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32 href="mailing-lists.html">subscribe</a> to our mono-list
33 and mono-announce-list. There is also a <a
34 href="http://www.gotmono.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl">forum</a> at <a
35 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono</a>.
37 You can contact the team at: <a
38 href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">mono-list@ximian.com</a>
40 In order to follow the process of the project and to learn more
41 about the team members we have created the <a
42 href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/index.html">Mono Weekly News letter</a>.
43 Which archives can be found <a
44 href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/archives.html">here</a>.
45 We have a <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk# Wiki</a>
46 and a <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono Wiki</a>
53 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
58 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
61 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
79 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM<br>
85 <td><b><a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a></b></td>
86 <td>Webforms and WebServices working<br></td>
90 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
93 All assemblies compile.
101 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
106 <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshots</a>
114 <b><center>In the news</center></b>
119 <img src="images/netmagazine.png">
122 <a href="http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2003_TE/magazine/columns/trends/default.asp">May 31st, 2003</a>: CLI integration.
127 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
130 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">May 22nd, 2003</a>: Mono 1.0 plans.
135 <img src="images/infoworld.png">
138 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">Mar 14th, 2003</a>: Whither Mono?
143 <img src="images/b2.png">
146 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">Dec, 2002</a>: The Penguin takes flight.
154 @item Jul 27th, 2003: Wine packages and Daily Snapshots
156 MonoWine packages (used to run System.Windows.Forms) software
157 are now available from our (<a
158 href="download.html">download</a> page). You can track the
160 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">Wiki
163 We're now building daily snapshots of Mono. They come in
164 three distinct flavors:
167 * mono snapshot tarballs - These are 'release-style' tarballs and
168 contain everything necessary to setup a new
169 installation from scratch. This includes the Mono
170 runtime and all the assemblies we distribute.
172 * monocharge tarballs - These tarballs contain only
173 the assemblies built on that day.
175 * monolite tarballs - These tarballs contain a copy of
176 'corlib.dll', 'mcs.exe', 'System.dll', 'System.Xml.dll' and
177 'Mono.CSharp.Debugger.dll'. They can be used to
178 re-bootstrap an out-of-sync installation.
181 The daily builds are availble here: <a href="http://go-mono.com/daily">http://go-mono.com/daily</a>
183 If you find that the builds are broken, please notify Duncan.
184 @item Jul 19th, 2003: Recent developments
186 Since Mono has matured, we have limited the news on the site
187 to major accomplishments that are finished, but this week, it
188 is worth devoting some time to talk about some of the
189 work-in-progress projects that are progressing.
191 Jackson has added support to the IL assembler for generics as
192 well as to the PEAPI library, and it has assembled its first
193 generic program. Support for handling images with generics
194 has been on our file format reader for a while, but the JIT
195 engine is still incomplete.
197 On the XSLT world, Atsushi and Ben continue to make big
198 improvements. Ben recently got the prototype managed XSLT
199 implementation to run its first stylesheet. Although
200 currently Mono uses libxslt to implement the System.Xml.Xsl
201 namespace, to have a fully .NET compliant implementation we
202 will need a managed version, and this is the beginning of it.
204 Lluis recently posted an update on the <a
205 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001550.html">state
206 of WSDL</a> in Mono. Now that the web services runtime is
207 ready, the WSDL compiler becomes more important as a
210 Atsushi continues his work on the DTD validating reader in
211 System.Xml, as well as improving our XML Schema support.
213 @item Jul 14th, 2003: New build system; IPV6 support.
215 Peter Williams has contributed a new build system that
216 addresses many of the annoyance we had with our previous build
217 system. He has worked on this for a few weeks, and Gonzalo
218 helped test it and get it into CVS. We no longer have the
219 historical dual build system: make for Unix and nant for
222 This system also offers the opportunity to compile our class
223 libraries with different profiles (.NET 1.0, .NET 1.1 and the
224 various ECMA subsets).
226 Peter explains the new build system <a
227 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001506.html">here</a>
229 Jerome's IPV6 code has been checked into CVS; With Peter's new
230 build system, we will be able to expose it (as part of the
233 @item Jul 9th, 2003: ASP.NET web services, coverage tools.
235 Web Services keep advancing: now we also support server-side
236 authoring of Web Services as well as web service clients
237 (which shipped in Mono 0.25). This works using our ASP.NET
238 runtime, so it works with either XSP or the Apache module. The
239 new Web Services work from Lluis added the missing bits:
242 <li> Method calls with complex parameters (whatever XmlSerializer can currently serialize, which is a quite a lot).
243 <li> ref and out parameters.
244 <li> Soap headers (In, Out and InOut).
245 <li> Soap extensions, both global (configured in web.config) and particular to methods (configured using attributes).
248 For more details, see Lluis <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001449.html">post</a>
250 GUI-wise: Work on <a href="http://xr.xwin.org">Xr</a> to
251 implement System.Drawing continues. This will provide a full
252 GDI+ implementation for Mono, and this will be hooked up into
253 Gtk# and System.Windows.Forms.
255 MonoDoc keeps moving along, with a new web-based version
256 coming up next, and we are also exploring a collaborative
257 extension to allow people to contribute documentation through
260 Zoltan's Coverage analysis tool has been checked into CVS.
261 With this tool it is now possible to find which class library
262 code paths are missing regression tests. The module is
263 `monocov'. Details are <a
264 href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz/">here</a>. A fresh Gtk#
265 version is available now.
267 Jean's remoting-based Soap implenentation is also maturing.
269 @item Jun 26th: Mono 0.25 has been released.
271 We have released Mono 0.25. A list of the new features is
272 available <a href="archive/mono-0.25.html">here</a>.
274 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
275 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
277 @item Jun 17th, 2003: Web Services client; Profiling hooks
279 Lluis and Gonzalo have checked into CVS the support for web
280 services in the Mono runtime. This allows Mono to work as a
281 web services client. We still require a WSDL compiler to
282 compile the initial stub, but Erik has the beginning of a WSDL
283 compiler ready and Atsushi has continued work on his
284 experimental Xml Schema to C# class generator.
286 As part of this, the Mono Http runtime has been rewritten to
287 increase reliability, scalability and conformance to the
288 specs. Also our io-layer has been extended to not have
289 arbitrary limits. This was done as part of our collaboration
292 Paolo has commited the new pluggable profiling API to the Mono
293 runtime: now the profiler is built as a module, and a new code
294 coverage analysis has been checked in (and Zoltan already
295 added improvements to it).
297 Mark's Mozilla bindings continue to improve, and we will shortly
298 migrate the Mono documentation browser to use Mozilla, to take
299 advantage of the tutorial's use of CSS.
301 Jackson's work on the IL assembler and Ben on running
302 regression tests have provided us with a very needed tool in
303 the Mono toolkit. One of the last missing pieces on the SDK.
305 On the crypto world, we got Sebastien's certificate viewer
306 checked into CVS and the crypto code keeps advancing by leaps
309 Alexandre and Aleksey Work continues on Windows.Forms on top
310 of Wine and Gtk# (the former for full compatibility, the later
311 for ease-of-authoring).
313 Cesar checked in the beginning of the semantic analysis code
314 for his JScript compiler, and will be working on it full time.
316 @item Jun 11th, 2003: SourceGear and Ximian announce partnership
318 Ximian, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and server
319 solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption, today announced
320 that SourceGear Corporation will use Mono\x{2122} Project
321 technology to offer cross-platform versions of its
322 products. In addition, the companies have entered into a
323 development partnership under which Ximian® will provide
324 custom Mono development to enable delivery of SourceGear
325 products later this year. As a result, SourceGear will offer
326 both UNIX and Linux clients for its SourceGear Vault source
327 code management tool, enabling broader use of its solutions in
328 mixed-platform development organizations.
330 <a href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=sourcegear">Read more...</a>
332 Some technical details are available <a
333 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-June/014334.html">here</a>.
335 @item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches.
338 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-winforms-list/2003-May/000284.html">announced</a>
339 the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a library
340 that can be used dynamically from Mono. This work simplifies
341 the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer necessary
342 have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub program.
343 The patches are available <a
344 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/mono/">here</a>.
346 Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the <a
347 href="download.html">download page</a>.
349 @item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono
351 Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the <a
352 href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse IDE</a> running on top
353 of Mono+<a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a>.
355 A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found <a
356 href="images/ikvm-screenshot.png">here</a>
358 @item May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships
360 We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code
361 generation engine. A list of the new features is available <a
362 href="archive/mono-0.24.html">here</a>.
364 Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
365 available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
366 We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.
368 @item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
370 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released
371 their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso
372 3.0</a> database system. Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux.
373 On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and
374 ASP.NET. Congratulations to OpenLink for their release.
376 Virtuoso can be downloaded <a
377 href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a>
378 and a demo is available <a
379 href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>.
381 OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
384 Jon Udell wrote a small <a
385 href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a>
387 @item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.
389 Atsushi has created a <a
390 href="http://www24.brinkster.com/ginga/RelaxngValidatingReader/">RelaxNG</a>
391 validating XML reader.
393 There is activity on the <a
394 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono forums</a> and the <a
395 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/">Gtk# Wiki</a>
397 @item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out; Team pages.
399 The first book to cover Mono is out. This book is currently
400 only available in German, you can find it <a
401 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a>
403 We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a>
404 where we include a list of some of the people who have made
405 Mono possible. If you have CVS access, please update the page
406 to include your information.
408 @item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
410 The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
412 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a>
414 Zoltan has commited his <a
415 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed
416 allocation</a> patches to CVS as well.
418 @item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
420 Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
421 <a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool. Screenshots are <a
422 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
424 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>
426 Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
427 module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the <a
428 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>
430 The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
431 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>. Screenshots are
432 <a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>.
434 @item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
436 <a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
437 openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
439 @item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
441 <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue">
444 <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
445 What do you think about Mono?
447 Is your company involved with the development and
448 deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an
449 important part of your company's business application
450 strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
451 project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
452 and the use of Linux in business critical
455 If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
456 would like to talk with you. If interested, please
458 href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
464 @item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
466 Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
467 that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It
468 is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
469 Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
471 @item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
473 A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
474 notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. This is mostly a
475 bug fix release. No new features.
477 @item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
479 Mono 0.22 has been released. See the <a
480 href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix
483 A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
484 has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
486 Martin also announced a <a
487 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
488 release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
490 @item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
492 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
493 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
494 contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
497 Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug
498 fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
499 and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
500 and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the
501 point of running the <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual
504 @item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
506 A new mailing list for <a
507 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
508 Development</a> has been created.
510 @item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
512 Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
513 The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
515 Windows binary is available <a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">here</a>
517 @item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
519 Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
520 href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
521 Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
523 Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
524 handles ASP.NET. The code is available at <a
525 href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
527 Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
528 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
529 tests</a>. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
531 Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
532 momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
534 @item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
536 Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the <a
537 href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
538 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
539 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
540 and performance improvements.
543 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
545 <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
546 binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a
547 href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
549 @item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
551 With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
552 looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
553 of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
555 Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have
556 checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
557 how to complete this process <a
558 href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a
559 href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
560 for further discussion.
562 @item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates.
564 Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
565 Gnome. A screenshot can be seen <a
566 href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available
567 on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
568 straight binding to the C API.
571 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
572 an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
575 We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
576 JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
578 @item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
580 Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
581 as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
582 Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
583 advantage of Unix facilities.
585 A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
587 Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
588 If you want to contribute please read <a
589 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
592 Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
593 improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
594 has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
595 source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
596 (compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed
597 work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
598 generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
600 @item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
602 <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
603 Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
604 announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
606 @item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
609 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
610 release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
612 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
614 @item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
616 Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
617 World Expo. A description is <a
618 href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
621 href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
622 release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
623 shipping that uses Mono.
625 @item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
627 Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
628 href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
629 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
630 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
631 and performance improvements.
633 We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
634 screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
635 there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
636 progress on the documentation browser.
638 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
639 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
641 @item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
643 After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
644 released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
645 debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
646 unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
647 applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
650 Details of the release are available in <a
651 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
653 The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
654 The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
655 by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
656 applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
659 @item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
661 Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
663 MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
664 distribution, and MCS works with it.
666 Zoltan has managed to get <a
667 href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
668 for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
671 @item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
673 Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
674 href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
675 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
677 @item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
679 A new issue of the <a
680 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
681 Weekly News</a> has been published.
683 Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
684 that Sebastien has put together.
686 @item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
688 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
689 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
690 improved this to use implicit names as well.
692 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
693 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
694 per-thread basis now.
696 Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
697 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
698 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
699 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
700 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
702 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
703 statements on the grammar.
705 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
706 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
708 @item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
710 <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
711 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
712 their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
715 <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
716 href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
717 availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
719 Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
720 href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
721 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
722 of their product, also using Mono.
724 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
727 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
728 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
729 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
730 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
732 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
733 and its available from our <a
734 href="download.html">download</a> page.
736 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
738 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
740 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
741 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
742 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
744 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
745 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
746 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
747 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
748 asp.net has been released as well.
750 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
752 This release also includes a new exception handling system
753 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
754 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
756 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
758 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
759 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
760 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
761 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
764 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
765 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
766 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
768 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
771 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
774 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
775 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
776 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
777 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
779 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
780 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
781 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
782 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
783 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
784 server on Unix using Mono.
786 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
787 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
788 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
789 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
791 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
792 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
793 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
794 new test application that people can use to test their
795 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
796 you can participate in the <a
797 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
800 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
801 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
803 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
806 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
807 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
809 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
810 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
811 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
812 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
814 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
816 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
817 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
819 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
820 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
822 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
823 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
824 new technology are <a
825 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
826 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
828 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
829 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
830 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
832 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
833 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
836 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
837 see Windows screenshots for it <a
838 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
839 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
841 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
844 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
845 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
847 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
848 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
849 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
851 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
853 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
854 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
857 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
859 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
860 in Open Office file format.
862 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
864 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
865 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
867 Tim Coleman posted an <a
868 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
869 on the improvements in the System.Data
871 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
872 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
874 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
876 Tim's SqlClient is <a
877 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
878 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
879 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
880 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
882 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
884 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
885 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
886 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
887 been working on the Security classes.
889 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
890 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
891 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
892 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
894 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
895 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
897 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
900 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
901 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
903 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
905 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
908 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
909 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
910 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
911 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
912 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
913 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
915 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
916 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
917 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
918 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
919 list</a> mailing list.
921 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
922 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
923 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
924 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
925 data adapter is also coming soon.
927 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
929 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
930 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
931 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
932 are not supported by the .NET framework.
934 Last week we created a new <a
935 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
936 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
938 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
939 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
942 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
944 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
945 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
946 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
947 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
948 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
949 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
950 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
951 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
952 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
953 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
955 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
956 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
957 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
958 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
959 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
960 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
961 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
962 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
965 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
967 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
968 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
969 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
971 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
972 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
974 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
975 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
976 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
977 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
978 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
979 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
980 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
982 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
983 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
984 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
985 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
986 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
989 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
990 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
991 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
992 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
993 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
994 Documentation Tools</a>.
996 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
998 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
999 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
1000 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
1001 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
1003 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
1004 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
1005 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
1006 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
1007 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
1008 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
1009 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
1010 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
1011 configuration file `machine.config'.
1013 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
1015 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
1017 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
1018 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
1019 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
1022 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
1023 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
1024 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
1025 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
1026 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
1028 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
1030 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
1031 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
1033 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
1034 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
1035 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
1036 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
1037 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
1038 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
1041 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
1043 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1044 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1045 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
1047 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
1048 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
1049 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
1050 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
1053 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
1055 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
1056 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
1059 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
1061 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
1062 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
1063 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
1066 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
1067 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
1068 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
1069 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
1070 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
1071 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
1074 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
1076 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
1077 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
1078 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
1079 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
1080 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
1081 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
1083 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
1084 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
1085 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
1087 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
1088 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
1089 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
1090 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
1091 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
1092 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
1093 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
1094 on making a good UI in the future.
1096 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
1097 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
1098 This is the substrate for implementing the
1099 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
1101 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
1102 classes implementation.
1104 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
1105 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
1106 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
1107 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
1108 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
1111 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
1114 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
1115 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
1116 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
1117 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
1118 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
1119 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
1120 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
1121 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
1123 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
1126 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
1127 announced an Apache module that hosts
1128 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
1129 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
1132 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
1134 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
1135 released a fresh version of <a
1136 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
1137 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
1139 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
1141 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
1142 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
1143 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
1145 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
1147 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
1148 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
1149 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
1152 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
1153 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
1156 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
1158 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
1160 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
1161 on par with the PPC port.
1163 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
1164 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
1165 code for the remoting infrastructure.
1167 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
1168 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
1171 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
1173 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
1174 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
1175 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
1176 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
1178 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
1179 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
1180 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
1181 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
1183 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
1184 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
1185 for structure marshaling.
1187 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
1188 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
1189 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
1190 to integrate with Patrik's code.
1192 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
1193 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
1194 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
1196 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
1199 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
1201 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
1202 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
1203 a successful free software project.
1205 The first, deserved, entry goes to
1206 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
1207 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
1208 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
1209 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
1213 Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see the olds news.