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Mono includes: a compiler for the
C# language, a runtime for the
Common Language Infrastructure (also referred as the CLR) and a
- set of class libraries.
+ set of class libraries. The
+ runtime can be embedded into your
+ application.
+
+ Mono has implementations of both ADO.NET
+ and ASP.NET as part of its distribution.
You can read our rationale for
this project. If you have questions about the project, please
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Working:
- Linux/x86, Linux/PPC
+ Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390
In progress:
StrongARM, SPARC.
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Classes
- Corlib is self hosting.
+ All assemblies compile.
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-Events
+@item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
-
- - .NET
- ONE 2002: Come see Paolo, Mike and Miguel from the Mono team at the .NET ONE conference in Frankfurt.
-
+ 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 posted
+ 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 announced
+ Gtk# 0.6. This new release includes many new features and
+ bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the Mono 0.17 release.
+
+ Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
+ and its available from our download page.
+
+ Alp Toker has Debian packages
+
+@item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
+
+ Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the release notes for a more detailed
+ list. You can get it here.
+
+ 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 test web server 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: in
+ Windows doing Windows.Forms and in Linux doing VB with Gtk# (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.
+
+ The
+ Penguin Takes Flight: an article written by Erick
+ Schonfeld appears on the December issue of Business 2.0 magazine.
+
+ OpenLink and Ximian made joint
+ announcement on the plans of OpenLink to ship their Virtuoso
+ server on Unix using Mono.
+
+ Martin Willemoes's GNOME.NET
+ tutorial 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 Gtk#
+
+ Dennis Hayes has posted and update
+ 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 mono-winforms
+ mailing list
+
+ Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET data
+ layer and an application
+ server 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 working
+ as well as RSA encryption.
+ 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 here.
+ It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
+
+ Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for
+ Thinking in C#. The book is Mono-friendly.
+
+ Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is
+ here.
+
+ Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
+ see Windows screenshots for it here and here.
+
+ Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
+
+
+ A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
+ are available here
+ in Open Office file format.
+
+@item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
+
+ Neale Ferguson has contributed RPM
+ packages of Mono for the Linux/s390.
+
+ Tim Coleman posted an update
+ 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 now
+ capable of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
+ using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
+ running with Gtk# on
+ Windows is shown here
+
+ 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 mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
+ list 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 mailing
+ list 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 is
+ unique 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 (shot)
+ simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
+ configuration to backend keys, following the GNOME
+ Human Interface Guidelines.
+
+ 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 (new
+ shot) 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 updates.
+ Brian posted details
+ about the ODBC.NET provider.
Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
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@item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
+ San Francisco: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
+
Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
on par with the PPC port.