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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
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42 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
47 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
50 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
68 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390<br>
75 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
78 All assemblies compile.
86 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
91 <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshots</a>
99 @item Jan, 22th: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
101 Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
102 World Expo. A description is <a
103 href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
106 href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
107 release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
108 shipping that uses Mono.
110 @item Jan, 20th: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
112 Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
113 href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
114 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
115 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
116 and performance improvements.
118 We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
119 screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
120 there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
121 progress on the documentation browser.
123 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
124 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
126 @item Jan, 19th: Mono Debugger released.
128 After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
129 released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
130 debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
131 unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
132 applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
135 Details of the release are available in <a
136 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
138 The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
139 The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
140 by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
141 applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
144 @item Jan, 17th: DB2 provider, MacOS X
146 Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
148 MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
149 distribution, and MCS works with it.
151 Zoltan has managed to get <a
152 href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
153 for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
156 @item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
158 Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
159 href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
160 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
162 @item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
164 A new issue of the <a
165 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
166 Weekly News</a> has been published.
168 Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
169 that Sebastien has put together.
171 @item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
173 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
174 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
175 improved this to use implicit names as well.
177 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
178 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
179 per-thread basis now.
181 Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
182 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
183 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
184 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
185 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
187 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
188 statements on the grammar.
190 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
191 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
193 @item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
195 <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
196 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
197 their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
200 <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
201 href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
202 availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
204 Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
205 href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
206 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
207 of their product, also using Mono.
209 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
212 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
213 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
214 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
215 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
217 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
218 and its available from our <a
219 href="download.html">download</a> page.
221 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
223 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
225 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
226 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
227 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
229 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
230 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
231 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
232 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
233 asp.net has been released as well.
235 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
237 This release also includes a new exception handling system
238 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
239 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
241 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
243 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
244 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
245 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
246 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
249 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
250 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
251 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
253 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
256 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
259 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
260 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
261 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
262 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
264 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
265 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
266 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
267 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
268 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
269 server on Unix using Mono.
271 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
272 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
273 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
274 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
276 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
277 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
278 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
279 new test application that people can use to test their
280 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
281 you can participate in the <a
282 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
285 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
286 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
288 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
291 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
292 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
294 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
295 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
296 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
297 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
299 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
301 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
302 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
304 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
305 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
307 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
308 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
309 new technology are <a
310 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
311 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
313 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
314 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
315 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
317 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
318 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
321 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
322 see Windows screenshots for it <a
323 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
324 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
326 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
329 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
330 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
332 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
333 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
334 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
336 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
338 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
339 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
342 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
344 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
345 in Open Office file format.
347 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
349 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
350 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
352 Tim Coleman posted an <a
353 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
354 on the improvements in the System.Data
356 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
357 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
359 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
361 Tim's SqlClient is <a
362 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
363 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
364 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
365 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
367 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
369 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
370 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
371 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
372 been working on the Security classes.
374 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
375 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
376 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
377 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
379 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
380 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
382 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
385 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
386 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
388 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
390 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
393 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
394 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
395 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
396 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
397 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
398 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
400 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
401 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
402 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
403 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
404 list</a> mailing list.
406 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
407 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
408 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
409 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
410 data adapter is also coming soon.
412 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
414 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
415 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
416 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
417 are not supported by the .NET framework.
419 Last week we created a new <a
420 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
421 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
423 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
424 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
427 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
429 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
430 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
431 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
432 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
433 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
434 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
435 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
436 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
437 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
438 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
440 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
441 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
442 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
443 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
444 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
445 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
446 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
447 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
450 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
452 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
453 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
454 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
456 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
457 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
459 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
460 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
461 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
462 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
463 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
464 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
465 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
467 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
468 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
469 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
470 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
471 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
474 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
475 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
476 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
477 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
478 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
479 Documentation Tools</a>.
481 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
483 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
484 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
485 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
486 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
488 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
489 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
490 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
491 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
492 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
493 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
494 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
495 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
496 configuration file `machine.config'.
498 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
500 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
502 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
503 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
504 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
507 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
508 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
509 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
510 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
511 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
513 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
515 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
516 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
518 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
519 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
520 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
521 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
522 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
523 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
526 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
528 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
529 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
530 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
532 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
533 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
534 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
535 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
538 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
540 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
541 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
544 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
546 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
547 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
548 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
551 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
552 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
553 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
554 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
555 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
556 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
559 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
561 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
562 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
563 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
564 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
565 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
566 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
568 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
569 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
570 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
572 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
573 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
574 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
575 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
576 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
577 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
578 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
579 on making a good UI in the future.
581 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
582 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
583 This is the substrate for implementing the
584 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
586 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
587 classes implementation.
589 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
590 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
591 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
592 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
593 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
596 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
599 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
600 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
601 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
602 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
603 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
604 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
605 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
606 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
608 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
611 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
612 announced an Apache module that hosts
613 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
614 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
617 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
619 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
620 released a fresh version of <a
621 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
622 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
624 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
626 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
627 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
628 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
630 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
632 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
633 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
634 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
637 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
638 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
641 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
643 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
645 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
646 on par with the PPC port.
648 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
649 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
650 code for the remoting infrastructure.
652 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
653 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
656 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
658 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
659 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
660 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
661 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
663 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
664 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
665 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
666 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
668 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
669 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
670 for structure marshaling.
672 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
673 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
674 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
675 to integrate with Patrik's code.
677 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
678 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
679 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
681 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
684 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
686 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
687 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
688 a successful free software project.
690 The first, deserved, entry goes to
691 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
692 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
693 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
694 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
696 @item Looking for volunteers
698 We are looking for volunteers to help complete various pieces
699 of Mono and help move the project forward, we need
703 * More tests to the existing class libraries.
705 * Finish existing class libraries, check our <a
706 href="class-status.html">class status</a> pages to see
707 all the missing things. There are open tasks all over
708 the place: XML, Database access, enterprise services,
709 configuration, ASP.NET, Drawing APIs, and more.
711 * Since we have now ASP.NET running, we would like to
712 create an ASP.NET application to maintain our class
713 library documentation.
715 We have some special needs (read them <a
716 href="classlib-doc.html">here</a>). There is a
717 prototype written using Windows.Forms, but we believe
718 it will be faster to have this done using ASP.NET (and
719 it is also a nice way of stress testing it).
721 * Support for the VB runtime: we need contributions
722 to make our VB runtime mature enough to host
723 applications compiled with the VB.NET to run with
726 * We need people to help write the documentation: you
727 can start editing our XML files by hand, and once we
728 have the ASP.NET tool, upgrade to that.
731 @item July 31st, 2002: Flow Analysis
733 Martin has checked into CVS the data flow analysis patch for
734 MCS, this means that we now correctly implement definite
735 assignment in the C# language.
737 @item Jul 31st, 2002: Most ASP.NET controls render, Gtk# structs.
740 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001234.html">posted
741 an update</a> on the ASP.NET widgets that are still pending. Patrik is back, and he is
742 working with Gonzalo to streamline the pipeline
744 Rachel quietly committed to Gtk-Sharp support for marshaling
745 structures (very important for Gtk#). This uses extensively
746 the new marshaling code that Dietmar added to the runtime.
748 Dietmar is also now sharing more code for P/Invoke using his
749 intermediate representation. Another step to share more code, and
750 simplify the porting and maintenance process.
752 @item Jul 27th, 2002: NGEN tool for Mono.
755 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/001117.html">announced</a>
756 the availability of his CIL to C compiler. This allows your Mono assemblies to be pre-compiled
757 and optimized by GCC in your platform, increasing the speed significantly of your code.
759 @item Jul 26th, 2002: Mono 0.13 has been released.
761 <b>Mono 0.13 has been released!</b> (details <a
762 href="archive/mono-0.13">here</a>). Get
763 your sources for the <a
764 href="archive/mono-0.13.tar.gz">runtime</a> and
765 <a href="archive/mcs-0.13.tar.gz">compiler and class libraries</a>.
767 Alp made Debian packages and they are <a
768 href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>. Cristophe made
769 packages for Red Hat and they are <a
770 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/software">here</a>.
771 And Windows packages have been <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">contributed</a>
773 @item Jul 23rd, 2002: Mono Verifier, System.Web.Services, ASP.NET samples.
775 Mono now has a verifier. It is used by the runtime, or you can invoke it manually to
776 verify an image by using the `pedump' tool.
778 Tim Coleman has started work on the System.Web.Services
779 assembly (you can also track the status here on the web page).
780 Contact him if you want to help in this assembly or with the
781 associated web service tools.
783 Various samples for ASP.NET have landed in CVS.
785 @item Jul 20th, 2002: Spanish Mono Tutorial.
787 A Spanish tutorial on using Mono is <a
788 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-linux/">here</a>.
790 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-puf/">FAQ</a>
791 has been translated as well.
793 @item Jul 19th, 2002: File handle redirection, Embeddable Mono and Mono Linux compilation.
795 Dick's code for file handle redirection is complete and has
796 now landed on the CVS repository.
798 The Mono runtime can now be embedded into your application
799 (also known as "CLR hosting"). See the sample in
800 mono/samples/embed. This allows your application to link with
801 the Mono runtime, then your C code can call into the C#/CIL
804 Peter Williams and Martin contributed some Makefiles to
805 compile all of Mono on Linux. Details are <a
806 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000916.html">here</a>.
810 The first documentary on Ximian's development team is now
811 available online, from young director <a
812 href="mailto:erik.pukinskis@uconn.edu">Erik Pukinskis</a>: <a
813 href="http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/codemonkey.html">"Code
816 A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now <a
817 href="http://www.go-mono.com/mono-beginning/x70.html">online</a>.
819 More progress on the ASP.NET front: user defined controls are
820 now being rendered, as well as many of the sample programs
821 from www.asp.net. Gonzalo's work can be found on module XSP
822 (this implements the .aspx compiler).
824 Sergey Chaban has got Gtk# working on Windows, you can see
825 some screenshots: <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-1.jpg">sample apps</a> and
826 <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-2.jpg">running with a Russian charset</a>.
830 Paolo today got mono to complete host itself on Linux. This
831 means that we can now compile the `corlib' using the Mono C#
832 compiler and the Mono runtime.
834 Compiling the corlib was rather tricky, because the types that
835 the compiler uses during the compilation process will come
836 from the source code it is compiling.
838 After a few months of work, we have finally fleshed out all
839 the remaining bugs. Now the next step is to update the makefiles
840 to compile with the Mono tool-chain.
844 * The Mono C# compiler was able to compile itself on December 28th, 2001.
845 The resulting image contained errors though.
847 * The Mono C# compiler was able to self-compile in on
848 January 3rd, 2002. Becoming a self-hosting compiler on Windows.
850 * The Mono runtime matured enough by March 12, 2002 that it
851 was able to bootstrap the Mono C# compiler on Linux using our interpreter.
852 This means that our development tool was self sufficient.
854 * On March 26th, the JIT engine was fixed, so we could use this to
855 run the compiler on Linux.
857 * Martin fixed the remaining bugs in the compiler that stopped it from
858 compiling the `corlib'. The resulting image still contained errors though.
860 * On July 8th, Radek got the PowerPC port to bootstrap
861 the C# compiler. This is important, because it exposed
862 various tricky issues in a big-endian system.
864 * Today: we can bootstrap the compiler using libraries
865 and the compiler compiled with itself on Linux. The process is complete.
868 In the meantime, Dietmar has quietly implemented the remaining
869 pieces of Marshalling in the Mono runtime. This is very
870 important for the Gtk# guys to move on with their bindings.
872 To make things more interesting, he replaced most of the
873 architecture specific code generation for trampolines
874 (delegates, invocations, function and p/invoke trampolines) to
875 use CIL. This CIL is then compiled on the flight by the JIT
876 Compiler engine. By doing this, we have reduced the burden to
877 port the JITer to new architectures, and that our trampoline
878 code is cross platform.
882 Ajay was the first to notice <a
883 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000641.html">
884 Mono's first birthday</a>.
886 In a year, we have achieved plenty:
888 * 94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers).
889 * A complete CLI implementation:
891 <li> A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation).
892 <li> An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm).
894 * A self-hosting C# compiler, which can compile its class libraries.
895 * 37,140 file changes in CVS.
896 * 92,000 lines of C code.
897 * 437,000 lines of C# code (compiler, classes, tests)
898 * A working core for ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
899 * Major subsystems are functional: RegularExpressions,
900 System.XML, XML.Schema, System.Data, System.Web.
901 * The Gtk# project, which is maturing rapidly.
904 Thanks to everyone who has made Mono possible with their
905 feedback, regression tests, their comments, their help on the mailing
906 list, code contributions, complete classes, bug reporting, the
907 countless hours of bug hunting. This project would not have
908 been possible without every contribution.
910 It has been a great year for everyone involved in the
911 project. I think we have built a new and exciting community.
913 Now we have a solid foundation to build on, so this next year
914 looks even more exciting: not only because we will see more
915 Mono applications, but we will begin using Mono as an
916 `library' to be linked with applications that want to get
917 scripting-like features; Gtk# is our ticket to create nice
918 GNOME applications; And we will be developing CORBA bindings
919 to integrate with other object systems.
921 Also, for those interested in optimizations and tuning, this
922 year we will get to play with more advanced optimizations and
923 all kinds of interesting research ideas for improving Mono
926 A special thanks to the Mono developers at Ximian for managing
927 to survive their manager and a special thanks to our
928 regression test marshal Nick Drochak, who has been hunting
929 down, and fixing code in our class libraries and keeping us on
934 Radek today fixed the last bugs to get Mono to self host on
937 Alp Toker has released version 0.5 of <a
938 href="http://www.atoker.com/phonic/">Phonic</a>, a media
939 player for .NET. Phonic makes extensive use of Mono-developed
940 technologies such as Gtk# and csvorbis (Ogg player ported by
941 Mark). Hopefully we will be seeing many more exciting
942 applications like these in the near future.
944 Dietmar has been moving a lot of the architecture specific
945 code in the JIT engine to our internal representation. This
946 means that porting the JIT is simpler now, as there is less
947 architecture-specific code to maintain. The inliner, constant
948 folder and constant propagation are also done at the
949 architecture independent layer.
951 Gonzalo is now running the sample ASP.NET applications on
952 Linux with the Mono runtime. It still needs polishing though,
953 and help with the various ASP.NET controls would be
954 appreciated. The ASP.NET community seems more poor than the
955 PHP community, we need to have a few open source controls to
956 do things dynamic rendering (libart+gdk-pixbuf again can do
957 most of the work), charts and components like the kind of
958 thing you see in the PHP universe: to bring nice GPL code to
959 the masses of Windows developers, lure them into the world of
962 Dick has also got us the new Process implementation that
963 implements the Win32 semantics. Now only redirection is
968 Listen to Paolo Molaro do a talk on Mono at the WebIT
969 conference in Padova, Italy this coming friday. Details are
970 <a href="http://www.webbit2001.org/event/eventview/534/">here</a>
972 You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip:
973 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/sur.html">here</a>
975 Miguel will be doing a couple of talks at the O'Reilly
976 conference about Mono: status update, progress and developing
977 applications with it. Details are <a
978 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2994">here</a>
980 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2996">here</a>
984 Martin Baulig fixed the remaining bugs that prevented MCS to
985 compile our corlib. The compilation was tricky because of the way
986 MCS bootstraps the compile (internally mcs uses the types that are
987 being defined at that point to perform compares).
989 Martin and Paolo have been working hard on fixing the
990 remaining issues. Currently 102 test pass and 15 fail with
991 our resulting corlib.
993 Jesus' SoapFormatter classes are now in CVS.
995 I have been redoing the type lookup system for MCS. The
996 interesting bit is that I did most of this work on an airplane
997 using MCS itself. Which is a good test that the compiler is
998 now a good development tool.
1000 Duncan, Mike and Rachel have been hard at work with Gtk#, now
1001 there are bindings for the GtkHTML widget (the one used by
1002 Evolution's composer). And Rachel also got the beginning of GNOME
1003 bindings, that should simplify application development.
1005 A big thanks goes to Dennis Hayes for getting the
1006 Windows.Forms work together, and committing so many stubs for Windows.Forms.
1010 I am updating the Mono site from the UNESCO offices in
1011 Uruguay, the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/resources/calendar/roadshow/GNOMEenelSur.html">South-America trip</a>
1012 to promote free software is going very well.
1014 Many news in Mono-land this week so far:
1016 Mike Kestner got bindings for GtkHTML last night for Gtk#,
1017 this is using GtkHTML 2.0.
1019 On Monday Piers Haken <a
1020 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000380.html">contributed</a>
1021 the core to support XPath in Mono: most of the w3c spec is
1022 implemented (modulo a few pending bits).
1024 Dick checked in his implementation of the Process classes:
1025 process forking and waiting support committed, with some functions to
1026 query status. This was complex as we had to emulate the Win32
1027 environment, but this is another step to be fully compatible.
1028 This means for example that any process can check on the
1029 status of any other process (without the parent/child relationship)
1031 Of course, those interested
1032 in only the Unix semantics can always P/Invoke the Unix calls.
1037 Duncan has written a few sample <a
1038 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">Gtk# demo
1039 applications</a> (<a
1040 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageViewer.png">screen
1042 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageBrowser.png">another</a>)
1044 Rachel also got the beginning of Gnome bindings (<a
1045 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gnome-hello.png">screenshot</a>).
1046 She also got some <a
1047 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gtk-sharp-docs/">documentation</a>
1052 Mono's ASP.NET has rendered its first page on Linux for the
1053 first time (Gonzalo and Paolo).
1055 Also, we are getting close to
1056 self hosting. Paolo posted a <a
1057 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000345.html">list
1058 of pending issues</a> which are now very small.
1060 Steam is picking up in <a
1061 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> as the bindings become more
1062 complete and small applications are starting to emerge. Gtk#
1063 now compiles completely on Linux. This uses a lot of the XML
1064 libraries, which is nice to see.
1068 Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html
1069 Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls. Session tracking is
1070 next. Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono.
1072 Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the
1073 XmlSerialization code. All fields had to be re-ordered to
1074 match the Microsoft implementation.
1078 You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS
1079 compiler daily from <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's
1082 New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href="
1083 http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>.
1088 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a>
1089 today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.
1093 <b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes! More working code!
1094 Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs!
1097 href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1098 href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1099 href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1103 CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support.
1107 Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET
1108 .aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes.
1109 It is currently on its infancy. But very good news, now we need to
1110 upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux.
1112 Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has
1113 been checked into CVS.
1115 Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map
1116 PInvoke dlls to other libraries).
1118 <a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: Daniel has checked in
1119 a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad. And Rodrigo
1120 started the OleDB using LibGDA.
1124 An <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the
1125 Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools
1126 that process this data.
1128 Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> are
1129 now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.
1133 Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the
1134 System.Data class library.
1139 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-May/003953.html">has
1140 checked in</a> a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace.
1142 Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for
1143 templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render
1144 and data binding tags, style properties in style tags,
1145 ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties.
1149 <a href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/">MonoLogo</a> runs
1150 on the Mono runtime. This <a
1151 href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png">screenshot</a> shows
1152 MonoLogo running Gtk#.
1156 Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now
1157 it is possible to get <a
1158 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005717.html">line
1159 number</a> information on stack traces.
1163 XSP <a href="asp-net">our ASP.NET</a> .aspx page parser is now
1164 available on the AnonCVS servers. This is part of the ASP.NET
1165 support in Mono. Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it.
1167 Many updates to the <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET
1168 implementation</a> from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo.
1170 Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and
1171 compiling most of our regression test suite.
1173 Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and
1174 polishing the underlying network infrastructure.
1176 The Rafael and Chris have committed the beginning of the
1177 VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS.
1179 Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter
1183 Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT
1185 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about
1190 We are able to retrieve simple data from the database
1191 using our ADO.NET like functionality. Only string and integer data
1192 types are supported right now but more are in the works.
1194 You can find more information
1195 at <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a>
1197 Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim,
1198 and others for these bits.
1202 Rodrigo Moya announced <a
1203 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005366.html">new
1204 LibGDA</a>: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems.
1205 This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which
1206 should make it easier to use and compile.
1208 This is another milestone for our <a
1209 href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET implementation plans</a>
1211 We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on Tuesday ;-)
1215 Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and
1216 Richard Hestilow's <a href="http://monologo.sf.net">MonoLogo compiler</a> are now
1217 on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS.
1219 Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as
1220 simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now
1221 we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono. This is needed to fully
1222 emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API
1223 expose to applications.
1226 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> front: <a
1227 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/menu.png">Menu
1228 support</a>, Mike <a
1229 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-May/000064.html">tells
1234 Daily packages for <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> are available
1235 <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>
1239 Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
1240 href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
1241 (Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for
1243 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
1248 <b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> Mostly performance improvements, bug
1249 fixes and more classes are included.
1251 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1252 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
1253 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Release Notes</a>
1257 href="download.html#apr-24">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1258 href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1259 href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1263 SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a>
1265 Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
1270 Some updates from the hacking lines:
1272 <b>The web:</b> Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the
1273 http runtime support and started work on thread pools. This
1274 is part of the ASP.NET support.
1276 <b>Docs:</b> John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been
1279 <b>ADO.NET:</b> Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been
1280 working on the <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a> support, and got
1281 the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert
1282 rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and
1283 exceptions work). Check <a
1284 href="mailing-lists.html">mono-patches</a> for all the
1287 <b>Optimizations:</b> A number of optimizations in the runtime
1288 made the compiler twice as fast this week:
1290 Early this week Patrik started the string
1291 rewrite in the runtime. Today Dietmar finished the
1292 constructors and deployed the new layout.
1294 Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in
1295 turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved.
1297 Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues
1298 with our current array layout, and contributed a new array
1301 At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and
1302 implemented constant propagation. These two optimizations
1303 together are very powerful.
1305 <b>Bug fixing:</b> And of course everyone has been helping out
1306 with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick,
1312 Dietmar's inlining for the JIT engine just landed into
1313 CVS. This is only a first cut and more improvements will come later.
1315 Patrik, Paolo, Dietmar and Gonzalo have been busy optimizing
1316 our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes
1321 Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been <a
1322 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a>
1324 Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are <a
1325 href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for
1326 people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.
1330 <a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp">
1331 Advanced .NET Remoting</a> from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo
1332 helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable
1333 resource for anyone interested in remoting.
1337 Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to
1338 Dietmar. Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation.
1339 This should enable people to test the remoting framework on
1344 Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks
1345 to Martin's work. The resulting dwarf file can be used to
1346 single step C# code in GDB. A document will be shortly published with
1351 <b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> The self hosting release of Mono has
1354 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1355 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
1356 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Release Notes</a>
1360 href="download.html#mar-27">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1361 href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1362 href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1366 Paolo finally fixed the last bug in the JITer that stopped
1367 us from using it to run the Mono C# compiler. Goodies are on
1370 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> runs <a
1371 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/gtk-hello-world.png">Hello
1372 World</a>. Mike posted some <a
1373 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a>
1378 Martin has been working on our debugging infrastructure, both
1379 on the JIT side of things (adding dward support) as well as on
1380 the class libraries (so that MCS can start generating
1381 debugging information).
1383 Jason and Kral keep working on the System.Xml namespace,
1384 allowing Mike to move more to self-hosting his Gtk# code.
1386 The System.Web classes are now part of the build (and they are
1387 also part of the class status now). Ajay contributed a large
1388 chunk of code to the System.Xml.Schema namespace
1390 Dan (of regex fame) has been working on internal calls
1391 support: moving more code from the old monowrapper to become
1394 Paolo and Dietmar are working steadily on our runtime
1395 environment, fixing bugs, adding missing features and allowing
1396 us to run the compiler on Linux.
1398 Remember to post your bug reports.
1400 The nice class status on the right is brought to you by
1401 endless hacking hours from Piers and Nick. These status
1402 report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes
1403 in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself)
1407 At midnight, in Italy, Paolo got the Mono C# compiler to self
1408 host on Linux, the last bug has been squashed to self
1409 hostingness. We have now a fully self hosting compiler in Linux.
1411 A release will follow up shortly.
1415 Updated the <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, now
1416 it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
1421 MCS compiles on Linux!
1423 Today Paolo got the <a
1424 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-March/003726.html">MCS
1425 compiler compiling itself on Linux</a>
1426 completely for the first time! The resulting image still contains
1427 some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now. Later in the day
1428 and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile
1429 speed was improved in 400%
1431 We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now.
1433 Mono is temporarily using the Bohem GC garbage collector while
1434 we deploy the more advanced ORP one.
1438 The CVS repository <a href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=Mono">can be browsed</a>
1440 Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml
1441 classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have
1442 the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented.
1444 Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently
1445 revamped regression test suite.
1447 Piers has updated our <a href="class-status.html">class
1448 status</a> page again, with even more information available.
1450 The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi
1451 killed bugs of bugs in the <a href="http://bugzilla.ximian.com/buglist.cgi?product=Mono%2FClass+Libraries&product=Mono%2FMCS&product=Mono%2FRuntime&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&email1=&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&email2=&emailtype2=substring&emailreporter2=1&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&short_desc=&short_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&bug_file_loc=&bug_file_loc_type=substring&keywords=&keywords_type=anywords&op_sys_details=&op_sys_details_type=substring&version_details=&version_details_type=substring&cmdtype=doit&order=%27Importance%27&form_name=query">Mono Bug List</a>
1455 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>
1460 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a>
1461 has setup his <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org">First Steps in Mono</a> web site, which
1462 shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system.
1464 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a>
1468 New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> engine that
1469 provides detailed information about missing functionality in
1470 our class libraries. Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers
1471 did the XSLT and DHTML magic.
1473 More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now
1474 enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being
1475 Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)
1479 Paolo posted a list of <a
1480 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways
1481 you can help</a> if you do not have Windows right now. Sergey followed up with
1482 <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a>
1487 StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.
1491 SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)
1493 Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)
1497 <b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b>
1499 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1500 been packaged for your download pleasure. The <a
1501 href="archive/mono-0.9">Release Notes</a>
1504 href="download.html#feb-22">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1505 href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1506 href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1510 Paolo got our compiler natively to compile 117 of our tests.
1511 Self hosting is closer every day.
1513 Unsafe support is finished in the C# compiler.
1517 Gaurav got DataGrid and DataGridItemCollection done.
1519 C# compiler: Unsafe support is mostly complete (only stackalloc is missing).
1521 New easy to run scripts for compiling Mono on Unix and Windows
1522 is <a href="download.html">available</a>. We can now easily compile
1523 Mono on Windows and Linux. If you had trouble before, use the
1524 above scripts which will get the setup right for you.
1526 There are now three machines that can provide AnonCVS, just
1527 use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and
1528 you will get one of the machines.
1532 Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>
1536 Application Domains now support the two LoaderOptimization
1537 modes: share code or do not share code, and you can control
1538 this with the --share-code command line option.
1540 Paolo has now 100+ test cases run on Linux now with our class
1543 PowerPC and SPARC ports are moving along (Radek and Jeff)
1547 Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:
1549 AppDomains have been deployed (Dietmar). Socket work is done
1550 (Dick). Corlib compiled with no refs to mscorlib (Dan). New
1551 comprehensive tests for corlib bits (David). Nick is driving the
1552 regression test suite efforts and class library completeness.
1553 New System.Data work (Chris). Bug fixes (Paolo, Duncan, Ravi, Miguel)
1555 Miguel is off to the <a
1556 href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.
1560 <b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b>
1562 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1563 been packaged for your download pleasure.
1566 href="download.html#feb-11">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1567 href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1568 href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>)
1572 We would like to welcome all the new developers that have
1573 joined the project in the last couple of days. The classes
1576 An explanation of the relationship between <a
1577 href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html">GNOME
1580 Nick is still leading our test suite platform. I can not
1581 stress how important it is to have a good regression test suite
1582 for our platform, as buggy class libraries are what are
1583 stopping the compiler from running completely on Linux.
1585 We are of course psyched to see Mono run on
1586 non-Linux systems. Work is moving on native code generation
1587 for StrongARM, PowerPC, and SPARC as well as porting Mono to
1590 There are a couple of debates on the Mono list on implementing
1591 a set of web server classes for <a
1592 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002911.html">enabling
1593 ASP.NET</a> on Mono.
1596 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002944.html">
1597 posted a list of pending tasks</a> to enable the compiler to run on Linux
1601 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1602 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update
1603 on his Gtk#</a> activities.
1608 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt
1609 bindings</a> for .NET. Adam is cool.
1613 Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
1615 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002745.html">
1616 System.Text.RegularExpressions</a>.
1618 This is a fully .NET compatible implementation of the .NET regular expressions,
1619 fully Unicode aware. This contribution is very appreciated, as implementing this
1620 was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super
1621 set of the Perl regex engine).
1625 The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under
1627 <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT X11</a> license.
1629 This license is an Open Source license, and is used by other projects
1630 (most notably, the XFree86 project).
1632 The runtime (JIT, metadata library, interpreter) remains under
1633 the LGPL and the C# compiler remains under the GPL.
1636 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html">Press
1640 href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html">CNet</a>, <a
1641 href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50037-2,00.html">Wired</a>,
1642 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnopennet.xml">InfoWorld</a>,
1643 <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/27/2232231">NewsForge</a>.
1647 New mailing list: <a href="mailto:mono-patches-request@ximian.com">mono-patches@ximian.com</a>.
1648 This mailing list will receive automatically the patches that are submitted
1649 to the Mono CVS to any of its modules.
1651 This allows anyone who wants to participate in the peer-review of the
1652 code submitted to CVS to receive patches on e-mail. It should also
1653 expose to everyone the changes that are being done by the team every day.
1657 Dick has got a simple web server running with Mono (`MIS: Mono
1658 Internet Server') that is mostly used to test our IO layer, a
1659 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/dick-mis-server.png">screenshot</a>
1661 Paolo and Dietmar are busy making our runtime self sufficient on
1662 non-Windows platforms.
1664 C# compiler front: A lot of focus in the past weeks after
1665 the C# became self hosting has been in making the compiler a useful
1666 tool for development: improve error handling, provide better error
1667 reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler
1672 Our compiler has been self-supporting since January 3rd. In
1673 the meantime, we have been busy working on making it run on
1674 Linux. Today Paolo got more work done on Reflection.Emit and
1675 the compiler compiled `console.cs' (a sample Mono program) on
1680 Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch. Class libraries and
1681 runtimes are now fully Unicode aware. The details are <a href=
1682 "http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002409.html">
1685 Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to
1686 compile fib.cs, patches are coming tomorrow once we have
1691 Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# <a
1692 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html"><i>New
1693 year, new direction</i></a>.
1695 Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing
1696 System.Windows.Forms.
1700 Mono C# compiler becomes self-sufficient. We can now continue
1701 development of the compiler with itself.
1703 Work on the class libraries is still underway for having a full
1704 self hosting system. We hope to achieve our goal of self-hosting
1705 on Linux before the end of the month.
1707 Join the fun by downloading either tonight's <a
1708 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our
1709 <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>.
1713 After a lot of work, the C# compiler can compile itself.
1714 There are still errors in the generated image, but they are
1715 being fixed quickly.
1717 We will soon have the first non-Microsoft C# implementation!
1721 JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick).
1723 JIT: exception handling for unmanaged code (Dietmar)
1725 System.Reflection: Support for PropertyInfo and
1726 PropertyBuilder as well as the various queries for MethodBase.
1728 C#: Pre-processor; Rewrite of MemberLookup which fixed many of
1729 the outstanding issues. More bug fixing allows it to compile
1734 Dietmar has improved the register allocation and now Mono performs
1735 two to three times as fast as it did yesterday. Amazing.
1737 The compiler keeps moving along, explicit interface
1738 implementation is there.
1742 The JIT engine can now run all the compiler regression tests as
1743 well as assorted other programs, many more opcodes added
1744 recently. Currently the JIT engine uses a very simplistic register
1745 allocator (just enough to allow us to focus on feature completeness)
1746 and that will be the next major task to improve performance and
1747 reduce spills and reloads.
1749 On the C# compiler front: language features are now pretty
1750 much complete. The big missing tasks are unsafe code support,
1751 visibility, explicit interface implementation plus static flow
1752 analysis. There are many small bugs that need to be addressed.
1754 You can get your copy of the <a href="snapshots">latest Mono</a>
1756 More work is also required on fixing the foundation class
1757 libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the
1762 AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour). Thanks
1763 to <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> and Jesus
1764 Climent for helping to set this up.
1768 All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
1771 Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are
1774 More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).
1778 JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
1779 Dietmar added exceptions support to it.
1781 The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the
1782 switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs. Many
1785 Nick keeps working on improving our class library test suite.
1787 Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.
1792 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1793 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000015.html">update</a>
1794 on Gtk# development.
1800 Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
1801 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on
1802 Linux</a>. It compiles a sample program and then the sample
1803 program is executed.
1805 Mutator unary operators (++ and --) in the compiler are fully
1806 functional, they used to only work on variables, and now they
1809 To sum things up: The Mono C# compiler is written in C# and
1810 uses the .NET classes to get its work done. To make this work
1811 on Linux work has to happen in various fronts:
1813 * The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile
1814 many programs now (our test suite at this point is
1815 made up of 40 tests).
1817 * The class libraries need to be mature enough to support
1818 the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is
1819 what Paolo has been working on lately).
1821 The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the
1822 .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b>
1824 * The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual
1825 compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.
1828 At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will
1829 replace our interpreter in production.
1835 Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine. Sean has
1836 got assembly loading in the runtime (required for NUnit).
1838 More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi.
1840 Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries.
1846 Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
1848 Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
1854 Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
1861 Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
1862 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
1863 update</a> on his work on Gtk#.
1865 Ravi committed the initial support for Attributes in the
1868 Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.
1870 Paolo checked in his new System.Reflection and
1871 System.Reflection.Emit implementations. He has been working
1872 steadily on this huge task for a few weeks now. This is the
1873 foundation for the Mono C# compiler, and hence a very
1874 important piece of the puzzle.
1880 Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
1882 Mega patch from Dietmar: he committed the flow analysis code
1885 A lot of work has been going into the WebControls by Gaurav (4
1886 new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
1892 Ravi committed the caller-side method selection of methods with
1893 variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing
1894 the array handling support.
1900 Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were committed this
1903 Some large recent developments:
1905 The Decimal implementation from Martin Weindel has been
1906 partially integrated (we need to put the internalcalls in
1907 place now and compile and link the decimal code).
1909 Derek Holden committed recently the IntegerFormatter code into
1910 the CVS, so we got a pretty comprehensive integer formatting
1911 engine that we can finally use all over the place.
1913 Compiler got support for lock as well as assorted bug fixes.
1914 Ravi is still working on array support (and then we can
1915 optimize foreach for the array case).
1917 Dietmar is busy working on flow analysis on the JITer, the
1918 previous mechanism of generating the forest was wrong. Paolo
1919 has been a busy bee reworking the System.Reflection.Emit
1920 support code, and we should have some pretty nice stuff next
1921 week. Dick on the other hand is still working on the
1922 WaitOne/WaitAll emulation code. WaitAll is like select on
1923 steroids: it can wait for different kinds of objects: files,
1924 mutexes, events and a couple of others.
1926 Mike Kestner is busy working on Gtk# which is now using the
1927 .defs files to quickly wrap the API.
1933 Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
1934 properties. <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11
1935 days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships.
1937 Ximian users around the world <!--a
1938 href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with
1939 recent C# compiler progress.
1945 Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
1946 (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
1952 JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
1953 creation, vtable setup, interface table setup).
1955 The C# compiler now has almost full property support (only
1956 missing bit are pre-post increment/decrement operations),
1957 delegates are now created (still missing delegate invocation).
1958 try/catch/finally is also supported in the compiler now.
1960 System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto
1967 Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
1968 assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page:
1970 href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>.
1972 The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This
1973 component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
1980 Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
1981 executable today. This means that a very simple .NET program
1982 that was compiled on Windows was able to generate a .NET program
1983 while running on Linux using the Mono runtime.
1985 The various piece of the puzzle are starting to get together:
1986 the compiler can compile simple programs now and we are
1987 basically focusing on completeness now.
1994 href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
1995 Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
2001 More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
2002 runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
2003 (both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
2004 type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
2005 Ant (Sean and Sergey); Refactored and documented the
2006 internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar); StatementExpressions
2007 handled correctly (Miguel).
2013 A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
2014 support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
2015 got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
2016 the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
2017 got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
2023 Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
2024 Mono</a> to other architectures.
2030 <A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
2031 released (runtime engine, class libraries
2032 and C# compiler). Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
2033 0.7 announcement</a> for details
2039 Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
2040 repository. Gtk# can run a simple hello world application.
2041 The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in
2042 C#. You can see the Gtk# Hello World program <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a>
2044 Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
2050 Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
2051 importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
2058 The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
2059 application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!
2061 This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
2068 Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
2069 independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
2075 <b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
2076 will let you run it.
2078 Hello World consists of 1821 CIL instructions,
2079 performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
2081 Good work Mono team!
2087 Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
2088 are available here: <a
2089 href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
2095 New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
2097 href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a
2098 href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
2104 A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
2105 service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people
2106 without access to the <a
2107 href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/000/976/msdncompositedoc.xml&frame=true">.NET SDK</a>
2113 Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
2114 run every night at 10pm Boston time.
2120 Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
2121 href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a
2122 href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
2128 The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
2129 presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
2130 Open Source Software Convention</a>
2136 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2137 href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2138 get the new class libraries from <a
2139 href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
2145 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2146 href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2147 get the new class libraries from <a
2148 href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
2154 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2155 href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2156 get the new class libraries from <a
2157 href="download.html#july-17">here</a>
2159 Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
2161 Got Sean's new Class
2162 Status web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
2163 we are now keeping better track of contributors.
2169 Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
2170 href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>. Get it <a
2171 href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
2178 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
2180 runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
2186 I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
2187 Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it. I finally <a
2188 href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
2200 Brian posted a story on <a
2201 href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>