Mono includes: <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">runtime</a> for the
Common Language Infrastructure (also referred as the CLR) and a
- set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>.
+ set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>. The
+ runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your
+ application.
+
+ Mono has implementations of both <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a>
+ and <a href="asp-net">ASP.NET</a> as part of its distribution.
You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
this project. If you have questions about the project, please
You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
source</a> for our work so far. Grab a <a
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- href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=Mono">browse
+ href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=mono">browse
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+
+ In order to follow the process of the project and to learn more
+ about the team members we have created the <a
+ href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/index.html">Mono Weekly News letter</a>.
+ Which archives can be found <a
+ href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/archives.html">here</a>.
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-<h3>Events</h3>
+@item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
+
+ <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue">
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top">
+ <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
+ What do you think about Mono?
+
+ Is your company involved with the development and
+ deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an
+ important part of your company's business application
+ strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
+ project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
+ and the use of Linux in business critical
+ applications?
+
+ If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
+ would like to talk with you. If interested, please
+ email us at <a
+ href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
+ </div>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+@item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
-<ul>
- <li><b><a
- href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
- ONE 2002:</a></b> Come see Paolo, Mike and Miguel from the Mono team at the .NET ONE conference in Frankfurt.</ul>
-</ul>
+ Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
+ that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It
+ is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
+ Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
+
+@item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
+
+ A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
+ notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. This is mostly a
+ bug fix release. No new features.
+
+@item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
+
+ Mono 0.22 has been released. See the <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix
+ release.
+
+ A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
+ has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
+
+ Martin also announced a <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
+ release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
+
+@item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
+
+ The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
+ continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
+ contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
+ software project.
+
+ Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug
+ fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
+ and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
+ and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the
+ point of running the <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual
+ machine.
+
+@item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
+
+ A new mailing list for <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
+ Development</a> has been created.
+
+@item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
+
+ Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
+ The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
+
+@item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
+
+ Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
+ Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
+
+ Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
+ handles ASP.NET. The code is available at <a
+ href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
+
+ Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
+ tests</a>. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
+
+ Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
+ momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
+
+@item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
+
+ Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
+ the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
+ There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
+ and performance improvements.
+
+ Gtk# 0.8 has been <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
+
+ <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
+ binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a
+ href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
+
+@item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
+
+ With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
+ looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
+ of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
+
+ Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have
+ checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
+ how to complete this process <a
+ href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a
+ href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
+ for further discussion.
+
+@item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates.
+
+ Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
+ Gnome. A screenshot can be seen <a
+ href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available
+ on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
+ straight binding to the C API.
+
+ Marco has <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
+ an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
+ for Mono.
+
+ We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
+ JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
+
+@item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
+
+ Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
+ as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
+ Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
+ advantage of Unix facilities.
+
+ A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
+
+ Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
+ If you want to contribute please read <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
+ message</a>
+
+ Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
+ improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
+ has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
+ source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
+ (compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed
+ work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
+ generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
+
+@item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
-@item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390
+ <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
+ Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
+ announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
+
+@item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
+
+ A <a
+ href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
+ release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
+ Release <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
+
+@item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
+
+ Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
+ World Expo. A description is <a
+ href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
+
+ Open Link has a <a
+ href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
+ release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
+ shipping that uses Mono.
+
+@item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
+
+ Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
+ the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
+ There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
+ and performance improvements.
+
+ We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
+ screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
+ there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
+ progress on the documentation browser.
+
+ <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
+
+@item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
+
+ After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
+ released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
+ debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
+ unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
+ applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
+ platforms.
+
+ Details of the release are available in <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
+
+ The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
+ The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
+ by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
+ applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
+ flag to gcc).
+
+@item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
+
+ Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
+
+ MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
+ distribution, and MCS works with it.
+
+ Zoltan has managed to get <a
+ href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
+ for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
+ the Mono runtime.
+
+@item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
+
+ Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
+ the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
+
+@item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
+
+ A new issue of the <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
+ Weekly News</a> has been published.
+
+ Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
+ that Sebastien has put together.
+
+@item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
+
+ Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
+ the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
+ improved this to use implicit names as well.
+
+ Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
+ debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
+ per-thread basis now.
+
+ Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
+ Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
+ has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
+ are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
+ mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
+
+ Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
+ statements on the grammar.
+
+ Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
+ his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
+
+@item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
+
+ <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
+ href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
+ their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
+ to run on Mono.
+
+ <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
+ href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
+ availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
+
+ Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
+ href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
+ href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
+ of their product, also using Mono.
+
+@item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
+
+ Mike Kestner <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
+ Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
+ bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
+
+ Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
+ and its available from our <a
+ href="download.html">download</a> page.
+
+ Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
+
+@item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
+
+ Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
+ list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
+
+ Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
+ System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
+ which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
+ href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
+ asp.net has been released as well.
+
+ This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
+
+ This release also includes a new exception handling system
+ that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
+ our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
+
+@item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
+
+ Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
+ classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
+ invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
+ compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
+
+ Screenshots: <a
+ href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
+ Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
+ href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
+
+ Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
+ repository as well.
+
+@item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
+
+ <a
+ href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
+ Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
+ Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
+ href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
+
+ <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
+ href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
+ href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
+ announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
+ href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
+ server on Unix using Mono.
+
+ Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
+ tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
+ tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
+ use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
+
+ Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
+ on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
+ new test application that people can use to test their
+ controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
+ you can participate in the <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
+ mailing list</a>
+
+ Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
+ href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
+ layer</a> and an <a
+ href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
+ server</a> for Mono.
+
+ Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
+ continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
+
+ The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
+ runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
+ compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
+ number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
+
+@item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
+
+ Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
+ as well as RSA <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
+ We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
+
+ Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
+ can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
+ new technology are <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
+ It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
+
+ Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
+ Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
+
+ Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
+ href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
+ here</a>.
+
+ Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
+ see Windows screenshots for it <a
+ href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
+ href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
+
+ Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
+ <ul>
+ <li><a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
+ Mono Keynote presentation</a>
+
+ <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
+ The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
+
+ <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
+
+ <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
+ Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
+ </ul>
+
+ A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
+ are available <a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
+ in Open Office file format.
+
+@item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
+ Tim Coleman posted an <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
+ on the improvements in the System.Data
+
+ The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
+ virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
+
@item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
Tim's SqlClient is <a
@item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
+ <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
+
Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
on par with the PPC port.
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