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Posted
4 days
ago
by
Mono Project (mo...@novell.com)
We have just released Moonlight 0.7 to the public.
Get your copy
here.
This
new version of Moonlight works on both Firefox 2.0 and 3.0 and
sports some significant changes from 0.6:
Webkit loads the plugin
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(kangaroo, lewing)
The stream/downloader/request/response logic (used for
downloading media) has been been almost entirely moved from the
browser bridges into libmoon, with the browsers providing
subclasses. (kangaroo, sde)
Finally add argument checking to all wrapped plugin objects
(fejj).
Windowless mode fixes (lewing, toshok)
Plugin event handling fixes (lewing)
Engine
Many clock/animation framework fixes. We now pass both animation
matrix tests, and many, *many* other bugs (and regressions) have
been fixed. (mdk).
Bug fixes in the Stroke{Collection}.HitTest and
Stroke{Collection}.Bounds code (toshok, sde).
Namescope merging fixes (sde, jackson)
Parser fixes, and changes paving the way for 2.0 work (jackson)
Fix mouse event bubbling behavior (toshok)
Media
Big, big strides in our media framework and the various (file,
http, mms) downloaders, (fejj, rolf, kangaroo, fer)
MMS stream selection (kangaroo)
Performance
Shape caching and bounds computation reduction (spouliot)
Geometry bounds work (spouliot)
Fast path for position updates (Canvas.Left/Canvas.Top) (toshok)
Improved temporary cairo surface bounds (lewing)
Glyph rendering speedups (fejj)
Resort by ZIndex as a dirty pass (toshok)
Silverlight 2.0
work is progressing. A very simple 2.0 application successfully
ran. (miguel, jackson, sde). [Less]
Posted
about 1 month
ago
by
Mono Project (mo...@novell.com)
Web-based forums for Mono discussions have been added at
http://www.go-mono.com/forums
Most active Mono community members participate in on-line discussions
through our mailing lists; however, many Mono users have expressed a
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preference for web forums based discussions.
In order to address this demand for an official forums for Mono,
while keeping the community engaged in our mailing lists, we have
embedded nabble.com into our
site to create a bridge between the two groups. So, you can now use
whichever method you prefer participate in the community. [Less]
Posted
about 1 month
ago
by
Mono Project (mo...@novell.com)
To encourage users to try out Moonlight, we are doing a
source-code only release of Moonlight for developers to try
out Moonlight.
To try out Moonlight, you have two options:
Media codecs: you must do your own build
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from
source code.
No-media codecs: we provide one-click addins for
Firefox that will install with no effort.
Firefox addins are available
from http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight.
Source code for Moonlight is available
from here.
To compile Moonlight from source code
follow these
instructions. [Less]
Posted
2 months
ago
by
Mono Project (mo...@novell.com)
We have done a minor release of Mono 1.9, Mono 1.9.1 that
contains various bug fixes. Please see
the release
notes for details.
Mono 1.9.1 is available from
our downloads page.
Posted
3 months
ago
by
Mono Project (mo...@novell.com)
As part of the QA process for Mono, our fabulous QA team
has been packaging various popular open source .NET
applications, Gnome, Gtk#, ASP.NET, libraries and
Windows.Forms in an easy-to-install fashion for various
Linux
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distributions.
We are using
the OpenSUSE
Build Service to make the software available for various
Linux distributions.
Our repository is
available here,
for instructions on how to add the repository
see the
user manual. [Less]
Posted
3 months
ago
by
Mono Project (mo...@novell.com)
Starting with version 2.0 of Mono, the Mono C# compiler
source code will also be available under the MIT X11 license.
We are changing the license to allow parts of the compiler
to be reused as part of MonoDevelop, our LINQ class
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libraries
and to embed it in ASP.NET.
In MonoDevelop: This will allow the compiler to be
used to improve code-completion to support C# 3.0 as well as
improving the heuristics when offering completions. This
will reuse the front end and parts of the backend.
Compiler hosting inside ASP.NET: This will embed the
whole compiler into the ASP.NET process, eliminating about one
second for each compilation of a piece of code. In the past,
for each request for an uncompiled resource, we would have to
call the compiler, wait for its output and then load the
output. This typically shaves between 0.7 to 1 second on
those scenarios, ideal to improve the developer experience.
LINQ Class Libraries: This will allow us to reuse
parts of the compiler in our System.Core implementation for
LINQ for the current 3.5 generation and upcoming generations.
Many corner cases are handled by the compiler, and we will now
be able to lift those pieces. This will mostly use the
backend of the compiler. [Less]
Posted
3 months
ago
by
Mono Project (mo...@novell.com)
Slightly delayed news, a few weeks ago we released our best
Mono release so
far: Mono
1.9, the last release before Mono reaches its 2.0 level.
Mono 1.9 is considered a stable release and should be
considered the new
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stable version to be shipped. It should
replace older versions of Mono 1.2
You can obtain this
from the
downloads page. [Less]
Posted
3 months
ago
by
Mono Project (mo...@novell.com)
These tutorials are quite popular to help developers that
have a Windows.Forms or ASP.NET application port it to Unix.
They walk you through the process of bringing your software to
Linux, MacOS X or Solaris:
Porting
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ASP.NET Applications
Porting
Windows.Forms Applications
It is also useful to look at
the general
porting guidelines. [Less]
Posted
4 months
ago
by
Mono Project (mo...@novell.com)
After a few years in the oven, we are ready to announce the
first release of MonoDevelop. Lluis has put together a set
of in-depth
release notes that covers the major features available in
MonoDevelop and links to various
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tutorials and screencasts as
well as extensive screenshots of what is available in
MonoDevelop 1.0.
MonoDevelop 1.0 is designed mostly for Linux developers
creating Gnome and ASP.NET applications but MonoDevelop is
also available for MacOS users that download our Mono
installer and will still be useful if they are building
Mono-based applications on OSX.
The IDE
has many of the features that you would expect from a modern
IDE for Mono: support for programming in multiple languages,
an extensible design, editors and designers
for ASP.NET
and
Gnome
applications, integration
with Unix
toolchains
and Visual
Studio Solutions, support
for source
code control and following standard Unix development
practices, integrated
NUnit testing,
Unix Packaging
and Deployment (following the GNU conventions, and Mono
conventions)
for libraries and
packages), internationalization
and localization, tools
to maintain
your project documentation
and command
line tools to access this functionality.
We have
some pretty
good language support in this release: C#,
VisualBasic.NET, Java, C and C . Check the previous link
for the details as to how extensive the support is for each
feature.
Some screencasts:
Creating
a Simple User Interface with MonoDevelop.
Creating
Custom Widgets with MonoDevelop.
You wrote it, now you want to ship it, see how
MonoDevelop can help
you: Buildig
Packages with MonoDevelop.
Using Subversion to host your source code,
see Using
Version Control with MonoDevelop.
There is
more documentation
on MonoDevelop available as well. [Less]
Posted
4 months
ago
by
Mono Project (mo...@novell.com)
Mono
Snapshot builds for trunk are now available. They are
synchronized about once every hour and they contain the source
code for all modules that we typically packge from trunk, as
well as RPMs for a few systems every few hours.
Posted
5 months
ago
by
Mono Project (mo...@novell.com)
EntitySpaces has
announced
a winner for their contest
to write
an application to run on Linux with Mono.
From their announcement:
If you are an EntitySpaces customer, you can now travel
anywhere. From
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Windows, to Mono/Linux solutions, to the
Compact Framework and all kinds of wireless devices, to Web
Applications including "Medium Trust" support, or to high-end
Enterprise Applications, EntitySpaces can take you
there. EntitySpaces is truly a tiny, lightweight, powerful
architecture for the Microsoft.NET Framework, and uses zero
reflection. If you are a Mono developer, EntitySpaces is a
terrific architecture for you. With it, you can work on both
sides of the isle. Our database independence can free you from
most of the complexities of supporting many types of
databases, including those that run under Mono, such as MySQL
and VistaDB. No longer will you have to invent new
architectures with every new challenge that comes down the
road.
Our contest winner goes by the title Pro.Coder, and is a
independent contractor. We have received his entry to our Mono
contest, and were quite pleased. Pro.Coder sent us a DVD with
the EntitySpaces demo running under Mono. Thank you Pro.Coder,
you did an excellent
job. An image
of it is shown below. Pro.Coder added the CRUD and
DynamicQuery Join examples, to satisfy our contest
requirements.
Read
their announcement
for details on how Pro.Coder got started with Mono. It
details what they downloaded (EntitySpaces, Mono, MySQL
connector, VMWare Player, Mono VMware image), which versions
of the software they used, how they imported the database and
how they were able to deliver the application. [Less]
Posted
7 months
ago
by
Mono Project (mo...@novell.com)
Rob Howard
today announced
that their Graffiti
product will run on top of Mono, and the platforms supported
by Mono:
Early this week we announced that VistaDB will be the database
that Graffiti uses by default. You
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will be able to use other
databases (SQL Server and MySQL) too, but we liked VistaDB for
a variety of reasons. One of which we're officially announcing
today:
Graffiti is going to run on Mono.
There are a variety of reasons why adding Mono support
makes sense. But the biggest reason is choice. It gives people
more choices for how they want to use Graffiti.
By supporting Mono, in addition to Microsoft .NET, Graffiti
will be available on the following platforms:
Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Unix
We're not there yet, but we've been working with some folks
on the Mono team to make the necessary changes in Graffiti to
run on Mono. Everyday we get a little closer, but we're far
enough along now that we're ready to start talking about it.
Of course, having someone
like Telligent making this
announcement has made all of us very happy. We look forward
to their product launch.
Here is an
intro about what Graffiti is. [Less]
Posted
7 months
ago
by
Mono Project (mo...@novell.com)
We have released the new version of MoMA which corresponds
with the 1.2.6 release of Mono. There are two very important
changes that are worth mentioning about this new version.
- Addition of .Net 3.0/3.5 Classes - Beginning
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with
1.2.6, we include the definitions needed to scan your .Net 3.0
and 3.5 apps. At this point, we report everything as missing.
Even though we have implemented some of these classes in
our Olive
project, we do not currently ship this with the released
Mono, and MoMA tracks the Mono releases.
So what good is adding the 3.0/3.5 stuffs if we are going
to report it all as missing? We will soon be getting to the
point where we need to figure out what new stuff to implement
next. By scanning your app with MoMA and submitting the
missing report, we can see which parts are the most important
to our users so we can prioritize. (And yes, we _really_ use
this
data. MoMA
reports have pretty much dictated our prioritization since
it was released a year ago.)
- Removal of Design Namespaces - One of our
awesome mono-vangelists
pointed out that people scan their app (and third party
controls) and see all kinds of warnings about things missing
in the Design classes. However, these classes are not used to
run apps, just for designers such as Visual Studio. So we are
potentially scaring off users for no reason. Therefore,
beginning with 1.2.6, we no longer include the Design
namespaces in MoMA reports. (If you really want the Design
stuffs, you can download the definition file that includes
them on the MoMA
home page.)
- How Do I Get These New Features? - The new class
definitions could not be handled by existing version of MoMA,
so you will need to download a new version of MoMA, which is
available on the MoMA
homepage: http://www.mono-project.com/MoMA. [Less]
Posted
7 months
ago
by
Mono Project (mo...@novell.com)
We have just released Mono 1.2.6. Some of the highlights
for this release include:
Native Windows.Forms driver for MacOS X allows
Winforms-based applications to run without an X
server.
Support for the ASP.NET
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AJAX APIs and controls.
Support for FastCGI deployments: ASP.NET can now
be deployed on a multitude of servers that implement
the FastCGI protocol (lighttpd for example) in
addition to Apache.
Windows.Forms now supports the WebControl on
Windows and Linux using Mozilla.
Runtime will now consume much less memory for
2.0-based applications due to various optimizations in
generics support as well as including many new
performance improvements and an updated verifier and
an implementation of CoreCLR security.
C# compiler is quickly approaching full 3.0
support, most of the basics work right now (except
support for System.Query.Expression AST generation).
Mono 1.2.6 can now be used as an SDK for creating
Silverlight 1.1 applications on all platforms. This
allows developers to create applications that target
Silverlight without requiring a Windows installation.
Full details are
available on
the release notes. To get a copy, visit
the downloads
section on the web site. [Less]
Posted
7 months
ago
by
Mono Project (mo...@novell.com)
Gert Driesen
has announced
a major upgrade to NAnt. This release
includes many
new improvements and you can download source and binaries
from here.
Posted
7 months
ago
by
Mono Project (mo...@novell.com)
The Mono Project is participating in Google's Highly Open
Participation (GHOP) Contest. If you're a pre-university student over the age of 13, check out
our task list and claim a
task. If you successfully complete it you'll win a
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t-shirt and a certificate, and for every three tasks you complete
you'll win $100, up to a maximum of $500. The most successful students will win a trip to Google's Headquarters in
Mountain View, CA!
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an open source community, help people, and get rewarded for it. It's not limited
to coding; you can write documentation, translate an application, or even create icons. Applications built with Mono such
as Banshee and F-Spot are taking part too.
If you have any questions, hop onto IRC or email our
mailing lists and we'll do our best to help you. All community
members are welcome to help out guiding students and suggesting new tasks. [Less]
Posted
8 months
ago
by
Mono Project (mo...@novell.com)
We have published the current version of the Mono Summit Schedule here:
Mono
Summit Schedule.
As you can see, there are already a lot of interesting presentations and
we will be adding a couple more this week!
More
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information on the summit can be found here:
Mono Summit 2007.
If you plan on attending, you should register here. [Less]
Posted
8 months
ago
by
Mono Project (mo...@novell.com)
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
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GNOME IDE primarily 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]
Posted
8 months
ago
by
Mono Project (mo...@novell.com)
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
... [More]
an
email 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]
Posted
9 months
ago
by
Mono Project (mo...@novell.com)
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
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26th and 27th.
Mono Users and Developers: 3-day meeting
for developers and users of the Mono
platform.
For more details see our Mono Summit
2007 page. [Less]
Posted
9 months
ago
by
Mono Project (mo...@novell.com)
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
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schedule as it will 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]
Posted
9 months
ago
by
Mono Project (mo...@novell.com)
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.
Posted
10 months
ago
by
Mono Project (mo...@novell.com)
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
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Monday (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]
Posted
10 months
ago
by
Mono Project (mo...@novell.com)
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.
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The code is 100% managed .NET and will run on all Mono
supported platforms and works on all .NET supported
languages. [Less]
Posted
10 months
ago
by
Mono Project (mo...@novell.com)
We have just released Mono 1.2.5.
There are many improvements in this release. See our
release notes here,
Posted
11 months
ago
by
Mono Project (mo...@novell.com)
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
... [More]
Emacs keybindings support).
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]
Posted
about 1 year
ago
by
Mono Project (mo...@novell.com)
On their recent newsletter, GaiaWidgets announced 100%
support for Mono's ASP.NET with their Ajax-based widget
set.
Posted
about 1 year
ago
by
Mono Project (mo...@novell.com)
MonoDevelop 0.14 has been released, see the release
notes for details on it. Major new features:
Subversion add-in.
Refactoring operations.
New smart indenting for C#
Project exporting and conversion (includes Visual
... [More]
Studio 2005).
New features in Gtk# designer.
Desktop Integration Features (editor for launchers,
.desktop files).
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Posted
about 1 year
ago
by
Mono Project (mo...@novell.com)
Grasshopper 2.0, a product built on the Mono code base that
allows .NET applications to run on Java runtimes has been
released.
See the official announcement here
and get your copy here.
Congratulations to Mainsoft for this release!
Posted
about 1 year
ago
by
Mono Project (mo...@novell.com)
The Google Summer of Code posted the Mono
Summer of Code Podcast that we did a few weeks ago.
For our latest podcast, we caught up with some folks from the
Mono Project. Miguel de Icaza, who among his many claims to
fame is
... [More]
founder of the Mono Project and a Summer of Code
mentor and organization administrator for 2005, 2006 & 2007,
was joined by three former students for Mono: Aaron Tomb, Alan
McGovern and Michael Hutchinson. Check out the podcast to
learn more about Mono and the project's plans for SoC this
year, as well as news on other Mono Summer of Code projects
from 2005 & 2006. You'll also learn more about Aaron's work on
defect detection for CIL bytecode, Alan's BitTorrent
libraries, and Michael's creation of an ASP.NET project type
for MonoDevelop.
You can get the podcast here. [Less]
