Mono Project News Mono Project News http://www.mono-project.com/news/index.html Novell, Inc miguel@novell.com Tue, 29 Nov 2005 11:59:08 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss lb# Gtk# 2 has been released <p>Gtk# 2.x has reached stable released status. Packages and source tarballs are now available for gtk-sharp-2.4.0 at <a href="http://www.mono-project.com/Downloads">our download site</a>. The full announcement is <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/gtk-sharp-list/2005-November/006574.html">here</a> <p>Some links: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.mono-project.com/GtkSharpNewInVersion2x">New features in Gtk# 2.0</a> <li><a href="http://www.mono-project.com/GtkSharpUpgrade">Migrating your code to 2.0</a> <li>Full release <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/gtk-sharp-list/2005-November/006574.html">announcement</a> <li>Gtk# <a href="http://www.mono-project.com/GtkSharpPlan">roadmap</a>. </ul> <p>We have also released an unstable version of gtk+ 2.8 bindings for people who want to start experimenting with the cairo API. This release is not for the faint of heart, and comes with no API stability guarantee for the new 2.8 API. This is a source only release and the tarball is available <a href="http://go-mono.com/sources/gtk-sharp-2.0/gtk-sharp-2.7.1.tar.gz">here</a> <p>Since 2.8 is a relatively small API change over 2.6, we hope to quickly move to stability. If you find any issues, with the new API, please raise them promptly to ensure they are fixed. As always, please <a href="http://www.mono-project.com/Bugs">file a bug report</a> for any issues you encounter. http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Nov-29.html Mono Project (mono@novell.com) http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Nov-29.html Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:58:00 GMT MonoDevelop 0.9 has been released <p>Lluis Sánchez has announced a new release of the Mono IDE: MonoDevelop 0.9. The full release notes are <a href="http://www.monodevelop.com/Release_notes_for_MonoDevelop_0.9">here</a> and you can download it <a href="http://www.monodevelop.com/Download">here</a>. <p>New in this release are: <ul> <li>A Welcome Page: a starting point for your ongoing projects. <li>New component-based architecture for the IDE. For details see the <a href="http://www.monodevelop.com/Architecture_Overview">Architecture Overview</a>. <li>New Add-In manager to install, update and remove plugins for the MonoDevelop IDE. <li>A command-line build tool, so you can integrate MonoDevelop projects into your batch compilation process. <li>Smartindent for C# and Boo languages. </ul> http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Nov-28.html Mono Project (mono@novell.com) http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Nov-28.html Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:43:00 GMT ZeroC announced Ice 3.0 <p><a href="http://www.zeroc.com">ZeroC</a> has <a href="http://www.zeroc.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=8081#post8081">announced</a> the release of <a href="http://www.zeroc.com/ice.html">Ice 3.0</a> and it works with Mono out of the box. <blockquote> Ice, the Internet Communications Engine, is middleware for the practical programmer. A high-performance Internet communications platform, Ice includes a wealth of layered services and plug-ins. Ice means simplicity, speed, and power. Ice consists of the following packages: </blockquote> http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Nov-18.html Mono Project (mono@novell.com) http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Nov-18.html Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:32:00 GMT Mono: a Status Report <p>Miguel de Icaza posted a <a href="http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2005/Nov-17.html">status of the Mono</a>. http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Nov-17.html Mono Project (mono@novell.com) http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Nov-17.html Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:38:00 GMT Simios Interview with Miguel de Icaza <p>Everaldo from Mono/Brazil has <a href="http://www.simios.org/node/471">posted his interview</a> with with Miguel de Icaza. http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Nov-15.html Mono Project (mono@novell.com) http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Nov-15.html Wed, 16 Nov 2005 03:43:00 GMT Mono 1.1.10 has been released <p>The new version of Mono has been released. See our release notes <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.1.10">here</a>. The software can be downloaded <a href="http://www.mono-project.com/Downloads">here</a>. <p>This version includes many new changes as well as simplified Apache/ASP.NET configuration, completion to the compiler and much more. http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Nov-14.html Mono Project (mono@novell.com) http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Nov-14.html Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:27:00 GMT Article: Using Client Certificates with XSP <p><a href"http://pages.infinit.net/ctech/poupou.html">Sebastien Pouliot</a> has posted a new article on <a href="http://www.mono-project.com/UsingClientCertificatesWithXSP">Using Client Certificates with XSP</a>. http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Nov-09.html Mono Project (mono@novell.com) http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Nov-09.html Wed, 09 Nov 2005 21:14:00 GMT Gendarme: Initial Release <p>Sebastien Pouliot has <a href="http://pages.infinit.net/ctech/20051103-0139.html">announced</a> the release of <a href="http://www.mono-project.com/Gendarme">Gendarme</a> a tool that can be used to check for common programming mistakes in your assemblies. <p>This initial release is focused on security (it is being used to audit Mono's CAS implementation) and a few common bugs in Mono. http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Nov-03.html Mono Project (mono@novell.com) http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Nov-03.html Thu, 03 Nov 2005 21:45:00 GMT Tao 1.2.0 Released <p>A new version of Tao, the OpenGL bindings for .NET and Mono has been released and is available from the Mono download site. See the <a href="http://www.mono-project.com/Tao">Tao Home Page</a> for details, binaries and source code. <p> The 1.2.0 release has support for all known OpenGL extensions at this time, as well as extensive improvements to Tao.Sdl and Tao.Ode. The mono and .NET builds are not yet interchangeable; please download a specific build for either the mono runtime or the win32 .NET runtime. http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Nov-02.html Mono Project (mono@novell.com) http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Nov-02.html Wed, 02 Nov 2005 19:44:00 GMT Mono Used to Scale Up imeem .NET Application to Linux <p><a href="http://www.novell.com/news/press/item.jsp?contentid=5d3366f8ce337010VgnVCM10000024f64189____">Joint Novell/Imeem news brief</a> on Imeem's use of Mono: <blockquote> Imeem, a free desktop service that allows users to create personal private networks, has tapped Mono to quickly scale up its application from a simple technology demo running on .NET to an industrial strength server infrastructure to support its rapidly growing user base. The imeem development team also used Mono to develop client software that runs on both Windows and Mac OS X, two critical platforms in the consumer Internet market. </blockquote> http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Oct-31.html Mono Project (mono@novell.com) http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Oct-31.html Tue, 01 Nov 2005 01:20:00 GMT "Developing with Mono" class now available Novell Developer services has started to offer the new <a href="http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Developing_with_Mono">Mono application development for Linux class</a> as instructor led training. The class covers: <ul> <li>Installing and configuring Mono <li>Mono compilers (C#, VB.NET, Java, Boo) <li>the Mono tool chain <li>GUI development with Gtk# <li>Web applications and web services with ASP.NET <li>Database connectivity with ADO.NET and MySQL <li>LDAP development with Mono </ul> http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Oct-19.html Mono Project (mono@novell.com) http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Oct-19.html Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:13:00 GMT Race to Linux Results <p>CodeProject today announced the <a href="http://www.codeproject.com/racetolinux/winners.asp">winners</a>. In one case an application was rewritten line-by-line with PHP, which took twenty three hours. The press release is <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/051011/sftu025.html?.v=30">here</a> <p>In the remaining cases <a href="http://www.mono-project.com">Mono</a> or <a href="http://dev.mainsoft.com">GrassHopper</a> were used to port the software in a matter of hours. <p>The <a href="http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/RaceToLinuxRace3.asp">Reports Starter Kit</a> and <a href="http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/RacetoLinuxRace2.asp">TimeTracker</a> were ported to Linux using Mono and the database replaced with Firebird SQL. http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Oct-11.html Mono Project (mono@novell.com) http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Oct-11.html Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:19:00 GMT Updated MonoDevelop packages and Mono Installer <p>Updated versions of MonoDevelop have been uploaded for those users that were experiencing problems with Gtk#. The Linux installer has also been updated. <p>Packages are available from our <a href="http://www.mono-project.com/Downloads">Downloads</a> page. http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Sep-24.html Mono Project (mono@novell.com) http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Sep-24.html Sat, 24 Sep 2005 09:46:00 GMT Race to Linux Challenge <p>Join the competition to port existing Windows applications to Linux using <a href="http://www.mono-project.com">Mono</a>, <a href="http://www.codeproject.com/redir.asp?id=1204">Grasshopper</a> or <a href="http://www.php.net">PHP</a>. Mainsoft, IBM and CodeProject are sponsoring this effort. <p>For more details and prizes, see the <a href="http://www.codeproject.com/racetolinux/">Race to Linux</a> web page. http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Sep-23.html Mono Project (mono@novell.com) http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Sep-23.html Sat, 24 Sep 2005 01:57:00 GMT Mono 1.1.9.1 released <p>A bug fix release for Mono 1.1.9 has been released, it is available from our <a href="http://www.mono-project.com/Downloads">Download page</a>. The release notes are <a href="http://go-mono.com/archive/1.1.9.1_0">here</a>. <p>The Windows packages are not yet available as we are starting to automate that process and its taking a bit more time than we expected. Packages should be available soon. http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Sep-22.html Mono Project (mono@novell.com) http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Sep-22.html Fri, 23 Sep 2005 01:47:00 GMT Mono 1.1.9 has been released <p>Mono 1.1.9 introduces two new ports of the Mono JIT compiler: Itanium and ARM processor. This release introduces SSL support on XSP, a reusable web server, Cairo 1.0 bindings, a more scalable and hardened version of ASP.NET and the new .NET-compatible international collation code and much more. <p>This release includes various improvements from the summer of code: an updated and more conformant JScript.NET compiler and a revamped documentatiom browser now with integrated searching and Mozilla support. <p>For a more complete list see our <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.1.9/">release notes</a>. <p>Mono 1.1.9 is packaged for a number of platforms and available for <a href="http://www.mono-project.com/Downloads">download</a>. http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Sep-09.html Mono Project (mono@novell.com) http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Sep-09.html Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:55:00 GMT Mono Meeting at the Microsoft PDC <img src="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/images/mono.fire.gif" align="left" style="padding: 4px;"/> <p><b>Mono users meeting at the Microsoft PDC.</b> <p><b>Details:</b> Up-to-date details are available <a href="http://www.mono-project.com/MeetingPDC">here</a> <p><b>Date:</b> Tuesday September 13th. <p><b>Location:</b> Sheraton Downtown LA hotel, a <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.046117,-118.261471&spn=0.011604,0.022464&saddr=1111+S.+Figueroa+St.,+Los+Angeles,+CA+90015&daddr=711+S+Hope+St,+Los+Angeles,+CA+90017+(Sheraton+Downtown+Los+Angeles)&hl=en">short walk (map)</a> from the Staples Conventions Center. <p><b>Time:</b>The meeting will start at 6pm and will go until 9:30pm. <p><b>Pass the word</b> to other fellow .NET developers. <p>At the meeting we will talk about the <a href="http://www.mono-project.com">Mono Project's</a> current state, milestones, new developments, platform support and upcoming releases. Various Mono developers will be there to answer your questions both members of the community and Novell employees working on Mono. <p>The evening surprise is the unveiling of the new Mono T-Shirts design by Finnish artist Tuomas Kuosmanen. We will be giving out t-shirts to the attendees. <p>We will showcase some of the Mono-based applications we have built for Linux: <ul> <li> <a href="http://www.ifolder.com">iFolder</a> file sharing and synchronization, <li> the <a href="http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page">Banshee media player</a>, <li>our new <a href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/f-spot/">photo management</a> software, <li> the <a href="http://www.beaglewiki.org/Main_Page">desktop search</a>, <li> the <a href="http://www.monodevelop.com/">MonoDevelop</a> IDE and <li> the GTK# GUI toolkit which is the API we use to create all of these applications. </ul> <p>We will also showcase the new <a href="http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2005/Aug-15.html">vector-based rendering</a> APIs available for developers (completely cross-platform) as well as the new OpenGL-based windowing system. <p>We will answer your questions on how to bring your .NET applications to Linux, MacOS X and Solaris and how to take advantage of the Mono and Linux-specific APIs. <p>Finally, we will demo some of the <a href="http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2005/Aug-27-2.html">the new Mono software</a> funded by Google's Summer of Code: <ul> <li>XBuild: the open source msbuild implementation for assisting you in rebuilding your new projects on Mono. <li>Ruby.NET and PHP.NET compilers. <li>The DIVA Movie editor. <li>The new ASP.NET editor. <li>The .NET bug finder. <li>The Cecil libraries for reading and writing CIL images. <li>Mono's XAML compiler. </ul> http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Sep-06.html Mono Project (mono@novell.com) http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Sep-06.html Tue, 06 Sep 2005 23:29:00 GMT New Website <p>Thanks to <a href="http://linuxart.com">Garrett LeSage</a> the Mono <a href="http://www.mono-project.com">web site</a> has a new design. http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Sep-02.html Mono Project (mono@novell.com) http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Sep-02.html Fri, 02 Sep 2005 23:28:00 GMT Gtk# 2.4 Beta1 released. <a href="http://www.mono-project.com/Downloads">Packages</a> are now available for gtk-sharp-2.3.90, aka Beta1. Application porting is underway in many of the popular applications. This release is parallel-installable with the stable 1.0.x series and comes with the same API stability guarantee as 1.0.x. Port your applications now. http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Aug-22.html Mono Project (mono@novell.com) http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Aug-22.html Tue, 23 Aug 2005 01:26:00 GMT IA64 Mono Port <p>Zoltan has completed the Mono port to the IA64 architecture. It is currently only available as preview <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~wberrier/tmp/ia64/1.1.8.48898/">preview packages</a> or from our repository. Official packages will be part of the next Mono release. http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Aug-21.html Mono Project (mono@novell.com) http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Aug-21.html Sun, 21 Aug 2005 23:28:00 GMT Guidelines for Application Deployment <p>A new set of guidelines for developers distributting applications and libraries is available <a href="http://www.mono-project.com/Guidelines:Application_Deployment">here</a>. http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Jul-20.html Mono Project (mono@novell.com) http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Jul-20.html Wed, 20 Jul 2005 23:28:00 GMT Summer of Code Begins <a href="http://www.google.com">Google's</a> sponsored <a href="http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html">Open Source Summer of Code</a> has started. Thanks a lot to Chris DiBona and Greg Stein at Google for driving the whole process forward and to Google for funding this effort. <p>The Mono project will be mentoring sixteen students during the summer, for more information see our <a href="http://www.mono-project.com/Summer2005">Summer 2005</a> page. <p>If you were not selected as part of the Summer of Code, you can still join the project and contribute. Let <a href="mailto:miguel@novell.com">us know</a> if you are insterested. http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Jun-28.html Mono Project (mono@novell.com) http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Jun-28.html Tue, 28 Jun 2005 23:57:00 GMT Mono 1.1.8 has been released <p>Mono 1.1.8 has been released, see the release notes <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.1.8">here</a>, get it while its fresh from <a href="http://www.mono-project.com/Downloads">downloads</a> http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Jun-16.html Mono Project (mono@novell.com) http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Jun-16.html Thu, 16 Jun 2005 23:28:00 GMT Summer of Code <p>Google is sponsoring Mono development for students this summer with awards of $4,500 dollars for tasks approved. For details see the <a href="http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html">Summer of Code</a> web site. <p>See the list of <a href="http://www.mono-project.com/StudentProjects">Mono Ideas</a> http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Jun-01.html Mono Project (mono@novell.com) http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Jun-01.html Wed, 01 Jun 2005 23:28:00 GMT Live Mono CDs; Mainsoft's Grasshopper Released <p><a href="http://www.mono-live.com/">Mono Live</a> has launched, the brainchild of Joseph Hill. They are offering a Live CD of Mono for folks to try out the Mono development platform. It includes Mono, various Mono-based applications and .NET applications that you can take for a spin: <ul> <li>Development tools: Mono, MonoDoc, MonoDevelop. <li>Web portals: ASP.NET Forums, mojoPortal, IBuySpy. <li>Desktop Applications: Beagle, F-Spot, Tomboy, Muine </ul> <h3>Mainsoft releases Grasshopper</h3> <p>Mainsoft unveiled today Grasshopper, a technology to run your .NET applications on a Java Virtual Machine. Mainsoft's Grasshopper and Mono share the same class library to deliver the functionality, check out Mainsoft's <a href="http://dev.mainsoft.com">developer site</a>. <p>They have various tutorials like <a href="http://dev.mainsoft.com/Default.aspx?tabid=46">"Create your first Linux application with the Visual Studio .NET IDE in 10 minutes."</a> http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/May-24.html Mono Project (mono@novell.com) http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/May-24.html Tue, 24 May 2005 17:55:00 GMT Latest Installers: Windows, Linux, S390 <p>We have new installers in our <a href="http://www.mono-project.com/Downloads">Downloads</a> page for Windows, Linux (all distributions, Debian included) and SLES running on the S390 architecture. http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/May-14.html Mono Project (mono@novell.com) http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/May-14.html Sat, 14 May 2005 17:55:00 GMT New Tutorials, OSX, Third Party Announcements <p>A couple of new tutorials: <a href="http://www.mono-project.com/GConfTutorial">Using GConf in your Mono application</a> and <a href="http://www.mono-project.com/GtkSharpNotificationIcon">Using Notification Icons with Gtk#</a> from Milen Dzhumerov. <p>Fresh OSX package for Mono 1.1.7 is now available from the <a href="http://www.mono-project.com/Downloads">downloads page</a> <p>RemObjects announced its <a href="http://chromesville.com">Chrome</a> compiler, an object-oriented Pascal compiler for .NET and Mono. It consumes Gtk# out of the box. <p>Omnicore announced <a href="http://www.x-develop.com">X-Develop</a>, its cross platform Mono, .NET and Java IDE. It supports Windows, Linux and MacOS X. They offer a 30 day trial of their product. They have a showcase of features on their main page. http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/May-11.html Mono Project (mono@novell.com) http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/May-11.html Wed, 11 May 2005 17:55:00 GMT Mono 1.1.7 has been released <p>Mono 1.1.7 has been released, the major highlights of this release are: <ul> <li>Revamped IO layer and http stack, this will give up to three times performance boost on networking applications. <li>Significant Windows.Forms progress, lots of new widgets and improved widgets. <li>2.0 progress: compiler bug fixes, eight new ASP.NET 2.x controls (including databound widgets). <li>New working assemblies: Configuration.Install and ServiceProcess. <li>Upgrades to JScript and VB Alpha compilers. </ul> <p>For a detailed list, see the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.1.7">Mono 1.1.7 release notes</a>. http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/May-05.html Mono Project (mono@novell.com) http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/May-05.html Thu, 05 May 2005 17:55:00 GMT Binding GLib-based libraries; Understanding Versions <p>Zac Bowling has written an article on how to use bind your favorite GLib/Gnome-based libraries for consumption in Mono. See his article <a href="http://www.mono-project.com/GAPI">here</a> <p>Jon Pryor wrote an article on understanding the Mono versioning scheme and how it related to the .NET Framework. <a href="http://www.mono-project.com/Mono:Versioning">here</a>. http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Apr-11.html Mono Project (mono@novell.com) http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Apr-11.html Mon, 11 Apr 2005 17:55:00 GMT New Mono on OSX Mailing List <p>We have opened a new mailing list for users of Mono on OSX. You can find the details <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-osx">here</a>. http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Apr-07.html Mono Project (mono@novell.com) http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2005/Apr-07.html Thu, 07 Apr 2005 17:55:00 GMT