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
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Working:<br>
- Linux/x86, Linux/PPC<br>
+ Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390<br>
In progress:<br>
StrongARM, SPARC.
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<b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
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- Corlib is self hosting.
+ All assemblies compile.
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-<h3>Events</h3>
+@item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
-<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>
+ 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 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
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
+ capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
+ using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
+ running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
+ Windows is shown <a
+ href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
+
+ Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
+ supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
+ present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
+ been working on the Security classes.
+
+ Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
+ Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
+ compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
+ has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
+
+ Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
+ the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
+
+ In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
+ bindings.
+
+ Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
+ out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
+
+@item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
+
+ Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
+ into CVS.
+
+ The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
+ System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
+ interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
+ ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
+ easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
+ now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
+
+ We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
+ to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
+ write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
+ list</a> mailing list.
+
+ Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
+ servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
+ connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
+ transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
+ data adapter is also coming soon.
+
+@item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
+
+ Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
+ DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
+ still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
+ are not supported by the .NET framework.
+
+ Last week we created a new <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
+ list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
+
+ Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
+ and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
+ binding.
+
+ Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
+ binding <a
+ href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
+ unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
+ complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
+ representation of the types instead of two (the master types
+ is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
+ simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
+ configuration to backend keys, following the <a
+ href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
+ Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
+
+ Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
+ number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
+ major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
+ applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
+ will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
+ shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
+ users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
+ time as Mono 0.17.
+
+@item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
+
+ Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
+ provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
+ Brian posted <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
+ about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
+
+ Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
+ cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
+ in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
+ big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
+ classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
+ expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
+ assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
+
+ Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
+ file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
+ breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
+ routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
+ focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
+ release of it.
+
+ We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
+ module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
+ necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
+ browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
+ be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
+ Documentation Tools</a>.
@item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
@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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