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   2 * Resources
   3
   4         There are a number of resources available for those of you who
   5         want to contribute to the Mono project.  Here are a few links.
   6
   7         If you want to send suggestions for links, address them to <a
   8         mailto="web-mono@ximian.com">web-mono@ximian.com</a>.
   9
  10 ** Microsoft .NET
  11
  12         The <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/net">Microsoft.NET site.</a>
  13
  14         The Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0 can be downloaded <a
  15         href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/000/976/msdncompositedoc.xml&frame=true">here</a>
  16
  17         New methods that are not documented in 1.0, are documented <a
  18         href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/framewrkaddend.asp">here</a>
  19
  20         The changes between .NET 1.0 and .NET 1.1 are available <a href="http://www.csharphelp.com/archives2/archive406.html">here</a>
  21
  22 ** IRC
  23
  24         Various Mono contributors get together on channel #mono on
  25         irc.gnome.org
  26
  27 ** Mono related sites.
  28
  29         The Mono Tutorial:
  30
  31         <a href="http://go-mono.com/gnometutorial/">GNOME.NET Tutorial</a>
  32
  33         and other useful tutorials (Gtk#, Glade#, Embeded, etc) (in Spanish) at
  34
  35         <a href="http://www.monohispano.org">The Mono Hispano site</a>.
  36
  37         Sergey's web page on Mono resources:
  38
  39         <a href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>
  40
  41         Got Dot Net:
  42
  43         <a href="http://www.gotdotnet.com">Got Dot Net</a>
  44
  45         Got Mono:
  46
  47         <a href="http://www.gotmono.com">Got Mono</a>
  48
  49         MonoMail:
  50
  51         <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/monomail/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/monomail/</a>
  52
  53         Zip classes:
  54
  55         Mike's port to .NET: <a
  56         href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/NZipLib/default.asp">NZipLib</a>
  57
  58         .NET Security:
  59
  60         A nice overview paper on the <a
  61         href="http://www.foundstone.com/pdf/dotnet-security-framework.pdf">.NET
  62         security architecture</a>.
  63
  64 ** Development Tools
  65
  66         A tool to compare two assemblies:
  67
  68         <ul>
  69                 <li><a href="http://www.gotdotnet.com/userarea/keywordsrch.aspx?keyword=winchurn">http://www.gotdotnet.com/userarea/keywordsrch.aspx?keyword=winchurn</a>
  70         </ul>
  71
  72 ** Presentations
  73
  74         Currently the <a href="Presentations/O-Reilly">O'Reilly</a>
  75         presentation on Mono is available.  Arturo Espinosa has given
  76         a talk on Mono in Mexico and made <a
  77         href="http://construct.ximian.com/~arturo/Presentations/Mono.OLS/html">spanish
  78         slides</a>
  79
  80 ** ECMA Documentation.
  81
  82         You can get the documentation for the ECMA specs from:
  83
  84         <ul>
  85                 * <a href="http://www.ecma.ch/ecma1/STAND/ecma-334.htm">C# Language Specification</a>
  86                 * <a href="http://www.ecma.ch/ecma1/STAND/ecma-335.htm">Common Language Infrastructure</a>
  87         </ul>
  88
  89
  90         Older copies of the standard are available here:
  91
  92         <ul>
  93                 * <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/net/ecma">At MSDN</a>
  94                 * <a href="http://www.dotnetexperts.com">Dot Net Experts</a>
  95                 * <a href="http://developer.intel.com/software/idap/ecma">Intel</a>
  96                 * <a href="http://lightning.csse.monash.edu.au/.net/CLI">Monash University</a>
  97         </ul>
  98
  99         These contain specifications for the assembler, the metadata,
 100         byte codes supported by the CLI virtual machine, the C#
 101         language and the core class libraries.
 102
 103         For details on the .NET class libraries, you can
 104         visit the Microsoft's Developer Network:
 105
 106         <ul>
 107                 * <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/cpref_start.asp">.NET Framework Class Library</a>
 108         </ul>
 109
 110         You can also get this information if you install the Beta2
 111         release of the .NET Framework.
 112
 113 ** Discussion Groups.
 114
 115         <ul>
 116
 117                 * <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com">O'Reilly
 118                   Network</a> has a <a
 119                   href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">section devoted to
 120                   .NET</a>
 121                 * <a
 122                   href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups">MSDN</a> also
 123                   lists various newsgroups related to .NET</ul>
 124         </ul>
 125
 126 ** Other .NET related projects
 127
 128         There are a number of related projects to Mono:
 129
 130         <li><b>Development tools</b></li>
 131         <ul>
 132                 * <a
 133                   href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
 134                   Develop:</a> an IDE for the C# language written in C#.
 135
 136                 * <a href="http://nunit.sourceforge.net">NUnit:</a> A
 137                   testing framework for .NET classes.
 138
 139                 * <a
 140                   href="http://xmarks.sourceforge.net/doc.html">XMarks DOC.NET:</a> For
 141                   creating online documentation you can browse for your own classes.
 142
 143                 * <a
 144                   href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jds31/research/gccnet/">GCC .NET backend</a>.
 145
 146                   Jeremy Singer has developed a .NET backend for GCC.  This is research work.
 147         </ul>
 148
 149         <li><b>Class Libraries</b></li>
 150         <ul>
 151                 * <a href="http://9mm.com/~ogl/sdldotnet/">SDL for
 152                 .NET:</a> Bindings for the popular SDL graphics library.
 153
 154
 155                 * C# bindings for OpenGL and SDL are available here: <a
 156                   href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
 157
 158                 * <a
 159                   href="http://qtcsharp.sourceforge.net">Qt#:</a>
 160                   C# bindings for the Qt toolkit.
 161
 162                 * <a
 163                   href="http://codigolivre.org.br/projects/monoqle">Project MonoQLE:</a> a C# Message Queue Server.
 164                   Sorry only in portuguese, for now.
 165
 166         </ul>
 167
 168         <li><b>Programming languages:</b></li>
 169         <ul>
 170                 * <a
 171                   href="http://janet-js.sourceforge.net/">Janet:</a>
 172                   an implemention of ECMAScript (the standarized
 173                   version of JavaScript) in C#
 174         </ul>
 175
 176         <li><b>Other projects</b></li>
 177         <ul>
 178                 * <a
 179                   href="http://www.improve-technologies.com/alpha/esharp/">Eclipse
 180                   Plugin for C#</a>
 181
 182                 * <a href="http://www.kaffe.org">Kaffe:</a> A popular
 183                   Free Software JIT engine for Java.
 184
 185                 * <a href="http://www.intel.com/research/mrl/orp">ORP:</a> A research
 186                   JIT/VM/GC system from Intel.
 187
 188                 * <a
 189                   href="http://www.southern-storm.com.au/portable_net.html">Portable.NET:</a>
 190                   Another implementation of the CLI and C# compiler.
 191
 192                 * A Free (GFDL) tutorial on C# in Spanish with
 193                   examples, slides, and extras (under development). Get it <a
 194                   href="http://geneura.ugr.es/~jaime/csharp/">here</a>.
 195         </ul>
 196
 197 ** GNOME Documentation
 198
 199         Documentation on GNOME, and the GNOME APIs is available from
 200         the <a href="http://developer.gnome.org">developer</a> site at
 201         GNOME:
 202
 203         <ul>
 204                 * <a href="http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/">GNOME
 205         API documentation</a>
 206
 207                 * <a href="http://developer.gnome.org/doc/books">GNOME
 208         Online books</a>
 209
 210                 * <A
 211         href="http://developer.gnome.org/arch/">Architecture Overview</a>
 212         </ul>
 213
 214 ** Assembly Language Manuals online
 215
 216         <ul>
 217                 * <a href="http://www.agner.org/assem/#optimize">
 218         Pentium optimization tutorial</a> by Agner Fog
 219
 220                 * <a href="http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/">
 221         Art of Assembly</a> (x86 only)
 222
 223                 * Documentation for various CPUs
 224         (<a href="http://www.mit.edu/afs/sipb/contrib/doc/specs/ic/cpu/">
 225         x86, IA64, MIPS, ARM, Alpha</a>)
 226
 227                 * <a href="http://www.heyrick.co.uk/assembler/">
 228         ARM Assembler</a> tutorial
 229
 230                 * PowerPC
 231         <a href="http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/techdocs/852569B20050FF7785256996007558C6">
 232         Compiler Writer's Guide</a>
 233
 234                 * <a href="http://www.lightsoft.co.uk/Fantasm/Beginners/begin1.html">
 235         Beginners Guide to PowerPC Assembler</a>
 236         </ul>
 237
 238 ** Win32
 239
 240         <ul>
 241                 * Win32 <a href="http://www.jorgon.freeserve.co.uk/ExceptFrame.htm">
 242         Structured Exception Handling (SEH)</a> internals (x86 specific)
 243         </ul>