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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
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35 You can contact the team at: <a
36 href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">mono-list@ximian.com</a>
38 In order to follow the process of the project and to learn more
39 about the team members we have created the <a
40 href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/index.html">Mono Weekly News letter</a>.
41 Which archives can be found <a
42 href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/archives.html">here</a>.
48 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
53 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
56 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
74 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390<br>
81 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
84 All assemblies compile.
92 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
97 <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshots</a>
105 @item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
107 A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
108 notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. This is mostly a
109 bug fix release. No new features.
111 @item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
113 Mono 0.22 has been released. See the <a
114 href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix
117 A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
118 has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
120 Martin also announced a <a
121 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
122 release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
124 @item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
126 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
127 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
128 contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
131 Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug
132 fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
133 and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
134 and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the
135 point of running the <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual
138 @item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
140 A new mailing list for <a
141 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
142 Development</a> has been created.
144 @item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
146 Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
147 The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
149 @item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
151 Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
152 href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
153 Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
155 Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
156 handles ASP.NET. The code is available at <a
157 href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
159 Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
160 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
161 tests</a>. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
163 Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
164 momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
166 @item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
168 Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the <a
169 href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
170 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
171 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
172 and performance improvements.
175 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
177 <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
178 binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a
179 href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
181 @item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
183 With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
184 looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
185 of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
187 Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have
188 checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
189 how to complete this process <a
190 href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a
191 href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
192 for further discussion.
194 @item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates.
196 Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
197 Gnome. A screenshot can be seen <a
198 href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available
199 on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
200 straight binding to the C API.
203 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
204 an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
207 We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
208 JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
210 @item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
212 Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
213 as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
214 Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
215 advantage of Unix facilities.
217 A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
219 Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
220 If you want to contribute please read <a
221 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
224 Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
225 improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
226 has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
227 source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
228 (compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed
229 work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
230 generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
232 @item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
234 <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
235 Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
236 announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
238 @item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
241 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
242 release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
244 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
246 @item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
248 Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
249 World Expo. A description is <a
250 href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
253 href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
254 release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
255 shipping that uses Mono.
257 @item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
259 Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
260 href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
261 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
262 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
263 and performance improvements.
265 We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
266 screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
267 there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
268 progress on the documentation browser.
270 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
271 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
273 @item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
275 After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
276 released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
277 debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
278 unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
279 applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
282 Details of the release are available in <a
283 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
285 The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
286 The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
287 by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
288 applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
291 @item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
293 Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
295 MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
296 distribution, and MCS works with it.
298 Zoltan has managed to get <a
299 href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
300 for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
303 @item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
305 Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
306 href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
307 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
309 @item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
311 A new issue of the <a
312 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
313 Weekly News</a> has been published.
315 Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
316 that Sebastien has put together.
318 @item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
320 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
321 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
322 improved this to use implicit names as well.
324 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
325 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
326 per-thread basis now.
328 Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
329 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
330 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
331 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
332 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
334 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
335 statements on the grammar.
337 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
338 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
340 @item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
342 <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
343 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
344 their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
347 <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
348 href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
349 availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
351 Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
352 href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
353 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
354 of their product, also using Mono.
356 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
359 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
360 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
361 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
362 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
364 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
365 and its available from our <a
366 href="download.html">download</a> page.
368 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
370 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
372 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
373 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
374 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
376 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
377 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
378 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
379 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
380 asp.net has been released as well.
382 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
384 This release also includes a new exception handling system
385 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
386 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
388 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
390 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
391 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
392 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
393 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
396 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
397 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
398 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
400 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
403 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
406 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
407 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
408 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
409 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
411 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
412 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
413 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
414 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
415 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
416 server on Unix using Mono.
418 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
419 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
420 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
421 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
423 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
424 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
425 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
426 new test application that people can use to test their
427 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
428 you can participate in the <a
429 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
432 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
433 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
435 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
438 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
439 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
441 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
442 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
443 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
444 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
446 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
448 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
449 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
451 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
452 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
454 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
455 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
456 new technology are <a
457 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
458 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
460 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
461 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
462 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
464 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
465 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
468 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
469 see Windows screenshots for it <a
470 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
471 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
473 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
476 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
477 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
479 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
480 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
481 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
483 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
485 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
486 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
489 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
491 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
492 in Open Office file format.
494 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
496 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
497 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
499 Tim Coleman posted an <a
500 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
501 on the improvements in the System.Data
503 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
504 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
506 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
508 Tim's SqlClient is <a
509 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
510 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
511 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
512 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
514 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
516 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
517 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
518 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
519 been working on the Security classes.
521 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
522 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
523 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
524 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
526 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
527 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
529 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
532 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
533 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
535 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
537 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
540 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
541 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
542 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
543 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
544 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
545 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
547 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
548 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
549 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
550 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
551 list</a> mailing list.
553 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
554 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
555 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
556 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
557 data adapter is also coming soon.
559 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
561 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
562 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
563 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
564 are not supported by the .NET framework.
566 Last week we created a new <a
567 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
568 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
570 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
571 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
574 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
576 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
577 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
578 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
579 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
580 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
581 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
582 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
583 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
584 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
585 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
587 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
588 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
589 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
590 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
591 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
592 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
593 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
594 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
597 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
599 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
600 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
601 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
603 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
604 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
606 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
607 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
608 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
609 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
610 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
611 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
612 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
614 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
615 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
616 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
617 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
618 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
621 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
622 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
623 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
624 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
625 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
626 Documentation Tools</a>.
628 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
630 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
631 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
632 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
633 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
635 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
636 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
637 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
638 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
639 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
640 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
641 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
642 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
643 configuration file `machine.config'.
645 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
647 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
649 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
650 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
651 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
654 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
655 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
656 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
657 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
658 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
660 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
662 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
663 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
665 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
666 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
667 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
668 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
669 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
670 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
673 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
675 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
676 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
677 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
679 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
680 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
681 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
682 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
685 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
687 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
688 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
691 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
693 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
694 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
695 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
698 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
699 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
700 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
701 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
702 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
703 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
706 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
708 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
709 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
710 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
711 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
712 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
713 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
715 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
716 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
717 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
719 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
720 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
721 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
722 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
723 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
724 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
725 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
726 on making a good UI in the future.
728 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
729 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
730 This is the substrate for implementing the
731 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
733 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
734 classes implementation.
736 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
737 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
738 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
739 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
740 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
743 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
746 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
747 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
748 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
749 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
750 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
751 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
752 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
753 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
755 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
758 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
759 announced an Apache module that hosts
760 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
761 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
764 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
766 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
767 released a fresh version of <a
768 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
769 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
771 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
773 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
774 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
775 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
777 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
779 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
780 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
781 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
784 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
785 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
788 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
790 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
792 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
793 on par with the PPC port.
795 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
796 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
797 code for the remoting infrastructure.
799 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
800 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
803 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
805 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
806 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
807 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
808 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
810 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
811 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
812 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
813 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
815 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
816 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
817 for structure marshaling.
819 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
820 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
821 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
822 to integrate with Patrik's code.
824 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
825 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
826 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
828 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
831 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
833 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
834 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
835 a successful free software project.
837 The first, deserved, entry goes to
838 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
839 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
840 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
841 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
843 @item Looking for volunteers
845 We are looking for volunteers to help complete various pieces
846 of Mono and help move the project forward, we need
850 * More tests to the existing class libraries.
852 * Finish existing class libraries, check our <a
853 href="class-status.html">class status</a> pages to see
854 all the missing things. There are open tasks all over
855 the place: XML, Database access, enterprise services,
856 configuration, ASP.NET, Drawing APIs, and more.
858 * Since we have now ASP.NET running, we would like to
859 create an ASP.NET application to maintain our class
860 library documentation.
862 We have some special needs (read them <a
863 href="classlib-doc.html">here</a>). There is a
864 prototype written using Windows.Forms, but we believe
865 it will be faster to have this done using ASP.NET (and
866 it is also a nice way of stress testing it).
868 * Support for the VB runtime: we need contributions
869 to make our VB runtime mature enough to host
870 applications compiled with the VB.NET to run with
873 * We need people to help write the documentation: you
874 can start editing our XML files by hand, and once we
875 have the ASP.NET tool, upgrade to that.
878 @item July 31st, 2002: Flow Analysis
880 Martin has checked into CVS the data flow analysis patch for
881 MCS, this means that we now correctly implement definite
882 assignment in the C# language.
884 @item Jul 31st, 2002: Most ASP.NET controls render, Gtk# structs.
887 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001234.html">posted
888 an update</a> on the ASP.NET widgets that are still pending. Patrik is back, and he is
889 working with Gonzalo to streamline the pipeline
891 Rachel quietly committed to Gtk-Sharp support for marshaling
892 structures (very important for Gtk#). This uses extensively
893 the new marshaling code that Dietmar added to the runtime.
895 Dietmar is also now sharing more code for P/Invoke using his
896 intermediate representation. Another step to share more code, and
897 simplify the porting and maintenance process.
899 @item Jul 27th, 2002: NGEN tool for Mono.
902 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/001117.html">announced</a>
903 the availability of his CIL to C compiler. This allows your Mono assemblies to be pre-compiled
904 and optimized by GCC in your platform, increasing the speed significantly of your code.
906 @item Jul 26th, 2002: Mono 0.13 has been released.
908 <b>Mono 0.13 has been released!</b> (details <a
909 href="archive/mono-0.13">here</a>). Get
910 your sources for the <a
911 href="archive/mono-0.13.tar.gz">runtime</a> and
912 <a href="archive/mcs-0.13.tar.gz">compiler and class libraries</a>.
914 Alp made Debian packages and they are <a
915 href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>. Cristophe made
916 packages for Red Hat and they are <a
917 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/software">here</a>.
918 And Windows packages have been <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">contributed</a>
920 @item Jul 23rd, 2002: Mono Verifier, System.Web.Services, ASP.NET samples.
922 Mono now has a verifier. It is used by the runtime, or you can invoke it manually to
923 verify an image by using the `pedump' tool.
925 Tim Coleman has started work on the System.Web.Services
926 assembly (you can also track the status here on the web page).
927 Contact him if you want to help in this assembly or with the
928 associated web service tools.
930 Various samples for ASP.NET have landed in CVS.
932 @item Jul 20th, 2002: Spanish Mono Tutorial.
934 A Spanish tutorial on using Mono is <a
935 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-linux/">here</a>.
937 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-puf/">FAQ</a>
938 has been translated as well.
940 @item Jul 19th, 2002: File handle redirection, Embeddable Mono and Mono Linux compilation.
942 Dick's code for file handle redirection is complete and has
943 now landed on the CVS repository.
945 The Mono runtime can now be embedded into your application
946 (also known as "CLR hosting"). See the sample in
947 mono/samples/embed. This allows your application to link with
948 the Mono runtime, then your C code can call into the C#/CIL
951 Peter Williams and Martin contributed some Makefiles to
952 compile all of Mono on Linux. Details are <a
953 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000916.html">here</a>.
957 The first documentary on Ximian's development team is now
958 available online, from young director <a
959 href="mailto:erik.pukinskis@uconn.edu">Erik Pukinskis</a>: <a
960 href="http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/codemonkey.html">"Code
963 A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now <a
964 href="http://www.go-mono.com/mono-beginning/x70.html">online</a>.
966 More progress on the ASP.NET front: user defined controls are
967 now being rendered, as well as many of the sample programs
968 from www.asp.net. Gonzalo's work can be found on module XSP
969 (this implements the .aspx compiler).
971 Sergey Chaban has got Gtk# working on Windows, you can see
972 some screenshots: <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-1.jpg">sample apps</a> and
973 <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-2.jpg">running with a Russian charset</a>.
977 Paolo today got mono to complete host itself on Linux. This
978 means that we can now compile the `corlib' using the Mono C#
979 compiler and the Mono runtime.
981 Compiling the corlib was rather tricky, because the types that
982 the compiler uses during the compilation process will come
983 from the source code it is compiling.
985 After a few months of work, we have finally fleshed out all
986 the remaining bugs. Now the next step is to update the makefiles
987 to compile with the Mono tool-chain.
991 * The Mono C# compiler was able to compile itself on December 28th, 2001.
992 The resulting image contained errors though.
994 * The Mono C# compiler was able to self-compile in on
995 January 3rd, 2002. Becoming a self-hosting compiler on Windows.
997 * The Mono runtime matured enough by March 12, 2002 that it
998 was able to bootstrap the Mono C# compiler on Linux using our interpreter.
999 This means that our development tool was self sufficient.
1001 * On March 26th, the JIT engine was fixed, so we could use this to
1002 run the compiler on Linux.
1004 * Martin fixed the remaining bugs in the compiler that stopped it from
1005 compiling the `corlib'. The resulting image still contained errors though.
1007 * On July 8th, Radek got the PowerPC port to bootstrap
1008 the C# compiler. This is important, because it exposed
1009 various tricky issues in a big-endian system.
1011 * Today: we can bootstrap the compiler using libraries
1012 and the compiler compiled with itself on Linux. The process is complete.
1015 In the meantime, Dietmar has quietly implemented the remaining
1016 pieces of Marshalling in the Mono runtime. This is very
1017 important for the Gtk# guys to move on with their bindings.
1019 To make things more interesting, he replaced most of the
1020 architecture specific code generation for trampolines
1021 (delegates, invocations, function and p/invoke trampolines) to
1022 use CIL. This CIL is then compiled on the flight by the JIT
1023 Compiler engine. By doing this, we have reduced the burden to
1024 port the JITer to new architectures, and that our trampoline
1025 code is cross platform.
1029 Ajay was the first to notice <a
1030 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000641.html">
1031 Mono's first birthday</a>.
1033 In a year, we have achieved plenty:
1035 * 94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers).
1036 * A complete CLI implementation:
1038 <li> A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation).
1039 <li> An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm).
1041 * A self-hosting C# compiler, which can compile its class libraries.
1042 * 37,140 file changes in CVS.
1043 * 92,000 lines of C code.
1044 * 437,000 lines of C# code (compiler, classes, tests)
1045 * A working core for ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
1046 * Major subsystems are functional: RegularExpressions,
1047 System.XML, XML.Schema, System.Data, System.Web.
1048 * The Gtk# project, which is maturing rapidly.
1051 Thanks to everyone who has made Mono possible with their
1052 feedback, regression tests, their comments, their help on the mailing
1053 list, code contributions, complete classes, bug reporting, the
1054 countless hours of bug hunting. This project would not have
1055 been possible without every contribution.
1057 It has been a great year for everyone involved in the
1058 project. I think we have built a new and exciting community.
1060 Now we have a solid foundation to build on, so this next year
1061 looks even more exciting: not only because we will see more
1062 Mono applications, but we will begin using Mono as an
1063 `library' to be linked with applications that want to get
1064 scripting-like features; Gtk# is our ticket to create nice
1065 GNOME applications; And we will be developing CORBA bindings
1066 to integrate with other object systems.
1068 Also, for those interested in optimizations and tuning, this
1069 year we will get to play with more advanced optimizations and
1070 all kinds of interesting research ideas for improving Mono
1073 A special thanks to the Mono developers at Ximian for managing
1074 to survive their manager and a special thanks to our
1075 regression test marshal Nick Drochak, who has been hunting
1076 down, and fixing code in our class libraries and keeping us on
1081 Radek today fixed the last bugs to get Mono to self host on
1084 Alp Toker has released version 0.5 of <a
1085 href="http://www.atoker.com/phonic/">Phonic</a>, a media
1086 player for .NET. Phonic makes extensive use of Mono-developed
1087 technologies such as Gtk# and csvorbis (Ogg player ported by
1088 Mark). Hopefully we will be seeing many more exciting
1089 applications like these in the near future.
1091 Dietmar has been moving a lot of the architecture specific
1092 code in the JIT engine to our internal representation. This
1093 means that porting the JIT is simpler now, as there is less
1094 architecture-specific code to maintain. The inliner, constant
1095 folder and constant propagation are also done at the
1096 architecture independent layer.
1098 Gonzalo is now running the sample ASP.NET applications on
1099 Linux with the Mono runtime. It still needs polishing though,
1100 and help with the various ASP.NET controls would be
1101 appreciated. The ASP.NET community seems more poor than the
1102 PHP community, we need to have a few open source controls to
1103 do things dynamic rendering (libart+gdk-pixbuf again can do
1104 most of the work), charts and components like the kind of
1105 thing you see in the PHP universe: to bring nice GPL code to
1106 the masses of Windows developers, lure them into the world of
1109 Dick has also got us the new Process implementation that
1110 implements the Win32 semantics. Now only redirection is
1115 Listen to Paolo Molaro do a talk on Mono at the WebIT
1116 conference in Padova, Italy this coming friday. Details are
1117 <a href="http://www.webbit2001.org/event/eventview/534/">here</a>
1119 You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip:
1120 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/sur.html">here</a>
1122 Miguel will be doing a couple of talks at the O'Reilly
1123 conference about Mono: status update, progress and developing
1124 applications with it. Details are <a
1125 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2994">here</a>
1127 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2996">here</a>
1131 Martin Baulig fixed the remaining bugs that prevented MCS to
1132 compile our corlib. The compilation was tricky because of the way
1133 MCS bootstraps the compile (internally mcs uses the types that are
1134 being defined at that point to perform compares).
1136 Martin and Paolo have been working hard on fixing the
1137 remaining issues. Currently 102 test pass and 15 fail with
1138 our resulting corlib.
1140 Jesus' SoapFormatter classes are now in CVS.
1142 I have been redoing the type lookup system for MCS. The
1143 interesting bit is that I did most of this work on an airplane
1144 using MCS itself. Which is a good test that the compiler is
1145 now a good development tool.
1147 Duncan, Mike and Rachel have been hard at work with Gtk#, now
1148 there are bindings for the GtkHTML widget (the one used by
1149 Evolution's composer). And Rachel also got the beginning of GNOME
1150 bindings, that should simplify application development.
1152 A big thanks goes to Dennis Hayes for getting the
1153 Windows.Forms work together, and committing so many stubs for Windows.Forms.
1157 I am updating the Mono site from the UNESCO offices in
1158 Uruguay, the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/resources/calendar/roadshow/GNOMEenelSur.html">South-America trip</a>
1159 to promote free software is going very well.
1161 Many news in Mono-land this week so far:
1163 Mike Kestner got bindings for GtkHTML last night for Gtk#,
1164 this is using GtkHTML 2.0.
1166 On Monday Piers Haken <a
1167 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000380.html">contributed</a>
1168 the core to support XPath in Mono: most of the w3c spec is
1169 implemented (modulo a few pending bits).
1171 Dick checked in his implementation of the Process classes:
1172 process forking and waiting support committed, with some functions to
1173 query status. This was complex as we had to emulate the Win32
1174 environment, but this is another step to be fully compatible.
1175 This means for example that any process can check on the
1176 status of any other process (without the parent/child relationship)
1178 Of course, those interested
1179 in only the Unix semantics can always P/Invoke the Unix calls.
1184 Duncan has written a few sample <a
1185 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">Gtk# demo
1186 applications</a> (<a
1187 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageViewer.png">screen
1189 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageBrowser.png">another</a>)
1191 Rachel also got the beginning of Gnome bindings (<a
1192 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gnome-hello.png">screenshot</a>).
1193 She also got some <a
1194 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gtk-sharp-docs/">documentation</a>
1199 Mono's ASP.NET has rendered its first page on Linux for the
1200 first time (Gonzalo and Paolo).
1202 Also, we are getting close to
1203 self hosting. Paolo posted a <a
1204 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000345.html">list
1205 of pending issues</a> which are now very small.
1207 Steam is picking up in <a
1208 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> as the bindings become more
1209 complete and small applications are starting to emerge. Gtk#
1210 now compiles completely on Linux. This uses a lot of the XML
1211 libraries, which is nice to see.
1215 Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html
1216 Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls. Session tracking is
1217 next. Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono.
1219 Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the
1220 XmlSerialization code. All fields had to be re-ordered to
1221 match the Microsoft implementation.
1225 You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS
1226 compiler daily from <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's
1229 New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href="
1230 http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>.
1235 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a>
1236 today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.
1240 <b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes! More working code!
1241 Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs!
1244 href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1245 href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1246 href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1250 CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support.
1254 Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET
1255 .aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes.
1256 It is currently on its infancy. But very good news, now we need to
1257 upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux.
1259 Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has
1260 been checked into CVS.
1262 Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map
1263 PInvoke dlls to other libraries).
1265 <a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: Daniel has checked in
1266 a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad. And Rodrigo
1267 started the OleDB using LibGDA.
1271 An <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the
1272 Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools
1273 that process this data.
1275 Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> are
1276 now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.
1280 Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the
1281 System.Data class library.
1286 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-May/003953.html">has
1287 checked in</a> a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace.
1289 Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for
1290 templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render
1291 and data binding tags, style properties in style tags,
1292 ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties.
1296 <a href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/">MonoLogo</a> runs
1297 on the Mono runtime. This <a
1298 href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png">screenshot</a> shows
1299 MonoLogo running Gtk#.
1303 Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now
1304 it is possible to get <a
1305 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005717.html">line
1306 number</a> information on stack traces.
1310 XSP <a href="asp-net">our ASP.NET</a> .aspx page parser is now
1311 available on the AnonCVS servers. This is part of the ASP.NET
1312 support in Mono. Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it.
1314 Many updates to the <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET
1315 implementation</a> from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo.
1317 Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and
1318 compiling most of our regression test suite.
1320 Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and
1321 polishing the underlying network infrastructure.
1323 The Rafael and Chris have committed the beginning of the
1324 VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS.
1326 Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter
1330 Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT
1332 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about
1337 We are able to retrieve simple data from the database
1338 using our ADO.NET like functionality. Only string and integer data
1339 types are supported right now but more are in the works.
1341 You can find more information
1342 at <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a>
1344 Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim,
1345 and others for these bits.
1349 Rodrigo Moya announced <a
1350 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005366.html">new
1351 LibGDA</a>: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems.
1352 This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which
1353 should make it easier to use and compile.
1355 This is another milestone for our <a
1356 href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET implementation plans</a>
1358 We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on Tuesday ;-)
1362 Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and
1363 Richard Hestilow's <a href="http://monologo.sf.net">MonoLogo compiler</a> are now
1364 on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS.
1366 Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as
1367 simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now
1368 we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono. This is needed to fully
1369 emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API
1370 expose to applications.
1373 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> front: <a
1374 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/menu.png">Menu
1375 support</a>, Mike <a
1376 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-May/000064.html">tells
1381 Daily packages for <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> are available
1382 <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>
1386 Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
1387 href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
1388 (Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for
1390 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
1395 <b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> Mostly performance improvements, bug
1396 fixes and more classes are included.
1398 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1399 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
1400 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Release Notes</a>
1404 href="download.html#apr-24">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1405 href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1406 href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1410 SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a>
1412 Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
1417 Some updates from the hacking lines:
1419 <b>The web:</b> Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the
1420 http runtime support and started work on thread pools. This
1421 is part of the ASP.NET support.
1423 <b>Docs:</b> John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been
1426 <b>ADO.NET:</b> Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been
1427 working on the <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a> support, and got
1428 the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert
1429 rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and
1430 exceptions work). Check <a
1431 href="mailing-lists.html">mono-patches</a> for all the
1434 <b>Optimizations:</b> A number of optimizations in the runtime
1435 made the compiler twice as fast this week:
1437 Early this week Patrik started the string
1438 rewrite in the runtime. Today Dietmar finished the
1439 constructors and deployed the new layout.
1441 Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in
1442 turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved.
1444 Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues
1445 with our current array layout, and contributed a new array
1448 At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and
1449 implemented constant propagation. These two optimizations
1450 together are very powerful.
1452 <b>Bug fixing:</b> And of course everyone has been helping out
1453 with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick,
1459 Dietmar's inlining for the JIT engine just landed into
1460 CVS. This is only a first cut and more improvements will come later.
1462 Patrik, Paolo, Dietmar and Gonzalo have been busy optimizing
1463 our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes
1468 Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been <a
1469 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a>
1471 Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are <a
1472 href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for
1473 people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.
1477 <a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp">
1478 Advanced .NET Remoting</a> from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo
1479 helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable
1480 resource for anyone interested in remoting.
1484 Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to
1485 Dietmar. Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation.
1486 This should enable people to test the remoting framework on
1491 Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks
1492 to Martin's work. The resulting dwarf file can be used to
1493 single step C# code in GDB. A document will be shortly published with
1498 <b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> The self hosting release of Mono has
1501 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1502 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
1503 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Release Notes</a>
1507 href="download.html#mar-27">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1508 href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1509 href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1513 Paolo finally fixed the last bug in the JITer that stopped
1514 us from using it to run the Mono C# compiler. Goodies are on
1517 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> runs <a
1518 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/gtk-hello-world.png">Hello
1519 World</a>. Mike posted some <a
1520 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a>
1525 Martin has been working on our debugging infrastructure, both
1526 on the JIT side of things (adding dward support) as well as on
1527 the class libraries (so that MCS can start generating
1528 debugging information).
1530 Jason and Kral keep working on the System.Xml namespace,
1531 allowing Mike to move more to self-hosting his Gtk# code.
1533 The System.Web classes are now part of the build (and they are
1534 also part of the class status now). Ajay contributed a large
1535 chunk of code to the System.Xml.Schema namespace
1537 Dan (of regex fame) has been working on internal calls
1538 support: moving more code from the old monowrapper to become
1541 Paolo and Dietmar are working steadily on our runtime
1542 environment, fixing bugs, adding missing features and allowing
1543 us to run the compiler on Linux.
1545 Remember to post your bug reports.
1547 The nice class status on the right is brought to you by
1548 endless hacking hours from Piers and Nick. These status
1549 report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes
1550 in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself)
1554 At midnight, in Italy, Paolo got the Mono C# compiler to self
1555 host on Linux, the last bug has been squashed to self
1556 hostingness. We have now a fully self hosting compiler in Linux.
1558 A release will follow up shortly.
1562 Updated the <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, now
1563 it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
1568 MCS compiles on Linux!
1570 Today Paolo got the <a
1571 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-March/003726.html">MCS
1572 compiler compiling itself on Linux</a>
1573 completely for the first time! The resulting image still contains
1574 some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now. Later in the day
1575 and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile
1576 speed was improved in 400%
1578 We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now.
1580 Mono is temporarily using the Bohem GC garbage collector while
1581 we deploy the more advanced ORP one.
1585 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>
1587 Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml
1588 classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have
1589 the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented.
1591 Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently
1592 revamped regression test suite.
1594 Piers has updated our <a href="class-status.html">class
1595 status</a> page again, with even more information available.
1597 The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi
1598 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>
1602 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>
1607 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a>
1608 has setup his <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org">First Steps in Mono</a> web site, which
1609 shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system.
1611 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a>
1615 New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> engine that
1616 provides detailed information about missing functionality in
1617 our class libraries. Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers
1618 did the XSLT and DHTML magic.
1620 More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now
1621 enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being
1622 Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)
1626 Paolo posted a list of <a
1627 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways
1628 you can help</a> if you do not have Windows right now. Sergey followed up with
1629 <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a>
1634 StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.
1638 SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)
1640 Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)
1644 <b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b>
1646 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1647 been packaged for your download pleasure. The <a
1648 href="archive/mono-0.9">Release Notes</a>
1651 href="download.html#feb-22">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1652 href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1653 href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1657 Paolo got our compiler natively to compile 117 of our tests.
1658 Self hosting is closer every day.
1660 Unsafe support is finished in the C# compiler.
1664 Gaurav got DataGrid and DataGridItemCollection done.
1666 C# compiler: Unsafe support is mostly complete (only stackalloc is missing).
1668 New easy to run scripts for compiling Mono on Unix and Windows
1669 is <a href="download.html">available</a>. We can now easily compile
1670 Mono on Windows and Linux. If you had trouble before, use the
1671 above scripts which will get the setup right for you.
1673 There are now three machines that can provide AnonCVS, just
1674 use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and
1675 you will get one of the machines.
1679 Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>
1683 Application Domains now support the two LoaderOptimization
1684 modes: share code or do not share code, and you can control
1685 this with the --share-code command line option.
1687 Paolo has now 100+ test cases run on Linux now with our class
1690 PowerPC and SPARC ports are moving along (Radek and Jeff)
1694 Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:
1696 AppDomains have been deployed (Dietmar). Socket work is done
1697 (Dick). Corlib compiled with no refs to mscorlib (Dan). New
1698 comprehensive tests for corlib bits (David). Nick is driving the
1699 regression test suite efforts and class library completeness.
1700 New System.Data work (Chris). Bug fixes (Paolo, Duncan, Ravi, Miguel)
1702 Miguel is off to the <a
1703 href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.
1707 <b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b>
1709 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1710 been packaged for your download pleasure.
1713 href="download.html#feb-11">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1714 href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1715 href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>)
1719 We would like to welcome all the new developers that have
1720 joined the project in the last couple of days. The classes
1723 An explanation of the relationship between <a
1724 href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html">GNOME
1727 Nick is still leading our test suite platform. I can not
1728 stress how important it is to have a good regression test suite
1729 for our platform, as buggy class libraries are what are
1730 stopping the compiler from running completely on Linux.
1732 We are of course psyched to see Mono run on
1733 non-Linux systems. Work is moving on native code generation
1734 for StrongARM, PowerPC, and SPARC as well as porting Mono to
1737 There are a couple of debates on the Mono list on implementing
1738 a set of web server classes for <a
1739 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002911.html">enabling
1740 ASP.NET</a> on Mono.
1743 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002944.html">
1744 posted a list of pending tasks</a> to enable the compiler to run on Linux
1748 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1749 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update
1750 on his Gtk#</a> activities.
1755 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt
1756 bindings</a> for .NET. Adam is cool.
1760 Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
1762 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002745.html">
1763 System.Text.RegularExpressions</a>.
1765 This is a fully .NET compatible implementation of the .NET regular expressions,
1766 fully Unicode aware. This contribution is very appreciated, as implementing this
1767 was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super
1768 set of the Perl regex engine).
1772 The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under
1774 <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT X11</a> license.
1776 This license is an Open Source license, and is used by other projects
1777 (most notably, the XFree86 project).
1779 The runtime (JIT, metadata library, interpreter) remains under
1780 the LGPL and the C# compiler remains under the GPL.
1783 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html">Press
1787 href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html">CNet</a>, <a
1788 href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50037-2,00.html">Wired</a>,
1789 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnopennet.xml">InfoWorld</a>,
1790 <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/27/2232231">NewsForge</a>.
1794 New mailing list: <a href="mailto:mono-patches-request@ximian.com">mono-patches@ximian.com</a>.
1795 This mailing list will receive automatically the patches that are submitted
1796 to the Mono CVS to any of its modules.
1798 This allows anyone who wants to participate in the peer-review of the
1799 code submitted to CVS to receive patches on e-mail. It should also
1800 expose to everyone the changes that are being done by the team every day.
1804 Dick has got a simple web server running with Mono (`MIS: Mono
1805 Internet Server') that is mostly used to test our IO layer, a
1806 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/dick-mis-server.png">screenshot</a>
1808 Paolo and Dietmar are busy making our runtime self sufficient on
1809 non-Windows platforms.
1811 C# compiler front: A lot of focus in the past weeks after
1812 the C# became self hosting has been in making the compiler a useful
1813 tool for development: improve error handling, provide better error
1814 reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler
1819 Our compiler has been self-supporting since January 3rd. In
1820 the meantime, we have been busy working on making it run on
1821 Linux. Today Paolo got more work done on Reflection.Emit and
1822 the compiler compiled `console.cs' (a sample Mono program) on
1827 Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch. Class libraries and
1828 runtimes are now fully Unicode aware. The details are <a href=
1829 "http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002409.html">
1832 Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to
1833 compile fib.cs, patches are coming tomorrow once we have
1838 Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# <a
1839 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html"><i>New
1840 year, new direction</i></a>.
1842 Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing
1843 System.Windows.Forms.
1847 Mono C# compiler becomes self-sufficient. We can now continue
1848 development of the compiler with itself.
1850 Work on the class libraries is still underway for having a full
1851 self hosting system. We hope to achieve our goal of self-hosting
1852 on Linux before the end of the month.
1854 Join the fun by downloading either tonight's <a
1855 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our
1856 <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>.
1860 After a lot of work, the C# compiler can compile itself.
1861 There are still errors in the generated image, but they are
1862 being fixed quickly.
1864 We will soon have the first non-Microsoft C# implementation!
1868 JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick).
1870 JIT: exception handling for unmanaged code (Dietmar)
1872 System.Reflection: Support for PropertyInfo and
1873 PropertyBuilder as well as the various queries for MethodBase.
1875 C#: Pre-processor; Rewrite of MemberLookup which fixed many of
1876 the outstanding issues. More bug fixing allows it to compile
1881 Dietmar has improved the register allocation and now Mono performs
1882 two to three times as fast as it did yesterday. Amazing.
1884 The compiler keeps moving along, explicit interface
1885 implementation is there.
1889 The JIT engine can now run all the compiler regression tests as
1890 well as assorted other programs, many more opcodes added
1891 recently. Currently the JIT engine uses a very simplistic register
1892 allocator (just enough to allow us to focus on feature completeness)
1893 and that will be the next major task to improve performance and
1894 reduce spills and reloads.
1896 On the C# compiler front: language features are now pretty
1897 much complete. The big missing tasks are unsafe code support,
1898 visibility, explicit interface implementation plus static flow
1899 analysis. There are many small bugs that need to be addressed.
1901 You can get your copy of the <a href="snapshots">latest Mono</a>
1903 More work is also required on fixing the foundation class
1904 libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the
1909 AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour). Thanks
1910 to <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> and Jesus
1911 Climent for helping to set this up.
1915 All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
1918 Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are
1921 More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).
1925 JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
1926 Dietmar added exceptions support to it.
1928 The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the
1929 switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs. Many
1932 Nick keeps working on improving our class library test suite.
1934 Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.
1939 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1940 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000015.html">update</a>
1941 on Gtk# development.
1947 Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
1948 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on
1949 Linux</a>. It compiles a sample program and then the sample
1950 program is executed.
1952 Mutator unary operators (++ and --) in the compiler are fully
1953 functional, they used to only work on variables, and now they
1956 To sum things up: The Mono C# compiler is written in C# and
1957 uses the .NET classes to get its work done. To make this work
1958 on Linux work has to happen in various fronts:
1960 * The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile
1961 many programs now (our test suite at this point is
1962 made up of 40 tests).
1964 * The class libraries need to be mature enough to support
1965 the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is
1966 what Paolo has been working on lately).
1968 The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the
1969 .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b>
1971 * The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual
1972 compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.
1975 At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will
1976 replace our interpreter in production.
1982 Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine. Sean has
1983 got assembly loading in the runtime (required for NUnit).
1985 More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi.
1987 Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries.
1993 Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
1995 Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
2001 Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
2008 Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
2009 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
2010 update</a> on his work on Gtk#.
2012 Ravi committed the initial support for Attributes in the
2015 Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.
2017 Paolo checked in his new System.Reflection and
2018 System.Reflection.Emit implementations. He has been working
2019 steadily on this huge task for a few weeks now. This is the
2020 foundation for the Mono C# compiler, and hence a very
2021 important piece of the puzzle.
2027 Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
2029 Mega patch from Dietmar: he committed the flow analysis code
2032 A lot of work has been going into the WebControls by Gaurav (4
2033 new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
2039 Ravi committed the caller-side method selection of methods with
2040 variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing
2041 the array handling support.
2047 Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were committed this
2050 Some large recent developments:
2052 The Decimal implementation from Martin Weindel has been
2053 partially integrated (we need to put the internalcalls in
2054 place now and compile and link the decimal code).
2056 Derek Holden committed recently the IntegerFormatter code into
2057 the CVS, so we got a pretty comprehensive integer formatting
2058 engine that we can finally use all over the place.
2060 Compiler got support for lock as well as assorted bug fixes.
2061 Ravi is still working on array support (and then we can
2062 optimize foreach for the array case).
2064 Dietmar is busy working on flow analysis on the JITer, the
2065 previous mechanism of generating the forest was wrong. Paolo
2066 has been a busy bee reworking the System.Reflection.Emit
2067 support code, and we should have some pretty nice stuff next
2068 week. Dick on the other hand is still working on the
2069 WaitOne/WaitAll emulation code. WaitAll is like select on
2070 steroids: it can wait for different kinds of objects: files,
2071 mutexes, events and a couple of others.
2073 Mike Kestner is busy working on Gtk# which is now using the
2074 .defs files to quickly wrap the API.
2080 Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
2081 properties. <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11
2082 days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships.
2084 Ximian users around the world <!--a
2085 href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with
2086 recent C# compiler progress.
2092 Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
2093 (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
2099 JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
2100 creation, vtable setup, interface table setup).
2102 The C# compiler now has almost full property support (only
2103 missing bit are pre-post increment/decrement operations),
2104 delegates are now created (still missing delegate invocation).
2105 try/catch/finally is also supported in the compiler now.
2107 System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto
2114 Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
2115 assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page:
2117 href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>.
2119 The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This
2120 component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
2127 Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
2128 executable today. This means that a very simple .NET program
2129 that was compiled on Windows was able to generate a .NET program
2130 while running on Linux using the Mono runtime.
2132 The various piece of the puzzle are starting to get together:
2133 the compiler can compile simple programs now and we are
2134 basically focusing on completeness now.
2141 href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
2142 Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
2148 More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
2149 runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
2150 (both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
2151 type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
2152 Ant (Sean and Sergey); Refactored and documented the
2153 internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar); StatementExpressions
2154 handled correctly (Miguel).
2160 A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
2161 support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
2162 got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
2163 the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
2164 got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
2170 Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
2171 Mono</a> to other architectures.
2177 <A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
2178 released (runtime engine, class libraries
2179 and C# compiler). Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
2180 0.7 announcement</a> for details
2186 Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
2187 repository. Gtk# can run a simple hello world application.
2188 The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in
2189 C#. You can see the Gtk# Hello World program <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a>
2191 Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
2197 Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
2198 importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
2205 The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
2206 application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!
2208 This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
2215 Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
2216 independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
2222 <b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
2223 will let you run it.
2225 Hello World consists of 1821 CIL instructions,
2226 performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
2228 Good work Mono team!
2234 Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
2235 are available here: <a
2236 href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
2242 New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
2244 href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a
2245 href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
2251 A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
2252 service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people
2253 without access to the <a
2254 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>
2260 Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
2261 run every night at 10pm Boston time.
2267 Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
2268 href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a
2269 href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
2275 The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
2276 presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
2277 Open Source Software Convention</a>
2283 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2284 href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2285 get the new class libraries from <a
2286 href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
2292 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2293 href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2294 get the new class libraries from <a
2295 href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
2301 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2302 href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2303 get the new class libraries from <a
2304 href="download.html#july-17">here</a>
2306 Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
2308 Got Sean's new Class
2309 Status web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
2310 we are now keeping better track of contributors.
2316 Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
2317 href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>. Get it <a
2318 href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
2325 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
2327 runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
2333 I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
2334 Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it. I finally <a
2335 href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
2347 Brian posted a story on <a
2348 href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>