Mono

The MonoDevelop team is proud to announce the release of MonoDevelop 1.0 beta 2 (0.17). This is the second in a series of beta releases that will lead to MonoDevelop 1.0, hopefully around the end of the year. MonoDevelop is a GNOME IDE primarily ... [More] designed for C# and other .NET languages. This release contains lots of improvements, new features and bug fixes. The release highlights include: Basic support for ASP.NET web project deployment. Support for Visual Studio 2005 Web Application projects. Generation of Satellite Assemblies for localized resources. Plenty of bug fixes and other improvements. Full Release Notes and Installable Packages and Source Code. [Less]

We are in the process of putting together an agenda for the 2007 Mono Summit in Madrid. If you are a contributor or user of Mono, and are interested in presenting, demoing or being involved in the summit in any way, please send Jackson an email ... [More] with your proposal. Please include in your proposal a topic, description, and your desired presentation format (ie a Talk, Birds of a Feather, Company Sponsored outing, or just a brief demo). We will also need to know the length of time you will need for your presentation. [Less]

The Mono Summit 2007 will be hosted by UNED at their Escuelas Pias location venue in Madrid, Spain. The meeting will be split in two: Mono Contributors: 2-day meeting for contributors to the Mono project on November 26th and 27th. Mono ... [More] Users and Developers: 3-day meeting for developers and users of the Mono platform. For more details see our Mono Summit 2007 page. [Less]

Miguel de Icaza has written a statement on Mono's position to the opening of the .NET source code. Since the source code release from Microsoft later this year will not be open source, this code will have no impact on Mono's schedule as it will ... [More] not be able to use any of the information included in this code. Mono's policy on contributions continues to be the same that we have had over the years: if you have seen Microsoft .NET source code in any shape or form (soure code, decompilers, through NDAs or research licenses), you will not be able to contribute patches to the Mono implementation. For more details about Mono's policies, see our contributing page. [Less]

Alp Toker created DBus# an implementation of the client and server D-Bus protocols. The design utilizes generics extensively and it lead to a very clean design for mapping RPC messages to Mono. The slides for this work are available here.

This Saturday morning (September 15th) at 8am MDT we will be doing our final migration to the Novell Bugzilla system. Although we expect this migration to take much less time, we have planned a http://bugzilla.ximian.com outage until Monday ... [More] (September 17th) at 8am. During the outage, http://bugzilla.ximian.com will not be accessible. Once the migration is complete, http://bugzilla.novell.com will be the official Mono Bugzilla. In preparation for the switch, please create a Novell.Com account by going to the following URL. Novell Login Creation Page. It is important that you use the same e-mail address for this account that you use on http://bugzilla.ximian.com. [Less]

GemBoxSoftware produces .NET componets that allow developers to read, write and convert spreadsheet files (XLS, CSV and the new XLSX). Their GemBox.Spreadsheet product recently was updated to support Mono out of the box. The code is 100% managed .NET and will run on all Mono supported platforms and works on all .NET supported languages.

We have just released Mono 1.2.5. There are many improvements in this release. See our release notes here,

MonoDevelop 0.15 Released MonoDevelop is a GNOME IDE primarily designed for C# and other .NET languages. For details and screenshots see the Release Notes. Some highlights: Configurable keybindings (with Emacs keybindings support). ... [More] Localization support: integrates support for creating international applications (using gettext) and translating existing applications. Makefile generation: it can now generate plain Makefiles or Autoconf/Automake makefiles for projects. Header manager: for adding templates to your source code. Plus various usability improvements all around (IDE, GUI Designer) and many of the reported bugs have been fixed. [Less]

On their recent newsletter, GaiaWidgets announced 100% support for Mono's ASP.NET with their Ajax-based widget set.