Paoloが今日、Mono C#コンパイラを実行して最初のプログラムをビルドできたというPowerPC上のMono JITの報告を上げてきました。これはまだ完全ということにはなりません（例外処理がまだありませんし、MacOS XではBoehm GCが失敗しているようです）が、これはPaoloが素晴らしい進展を見せているということになります。

ZoltanがMCSにmodule訳注 - いわゆる.netmoduleのサポートを追加しました。（生成と参照）

12月10日: Mono Debugger 0.5 リリース

Martin Baulig が、新しいバージョンのMono Debuggerをリリースしました。訳注 - Mono Debuggerは、現時点ではまだ実行できません。このリリースは、Debugger.exeを生成しません。

12月2日: Mono 0.29 がリリースされました

Mono 0.29の詳細についてはリリース ノートをチェックしてください。

このリリースには `Hello World'を実行できるPPC JITエンジンと、feature completeとされるASP.NETが含まれています。

11月25日: Gtk# 0.14, System.DirectoryServices

Gtk# 0.14 がリリースされました。Gtk# webサイトから入手できます。

Sunil が System.DirectoryServices の実装を、Novell.Directory.Ldap のコードとあわせて MonoのCVSにチェックインしました。

11月14日: Gtk# 0.13 リリース

Mike Kestner が、.NETおよびMono用の Gtk# GUIツールキットのリリースを 発表しました。

11月13日: Monoおよび.NET用のマネージド LDAP バインディング

NovellのSunil Kumarが、Monoおよび.NET Framework用に完全マネージドのLDAP実装が利用可能になったことを発表しました。

このライブラリはNovell ForgeのCSharpLDAPモジュールで取得することが出来ます。

11月4日: Mono Roadmapが発表されました

Mono ロードマップ と Monoハッカーのロードマップ がリリースされました。

Oct 28th: Mono Get Together at the PDC. GTK# 0.12 Released.

Mike Kestner released Gtk# 0.12 today. GTK# source tar balls and RPMs are available. A windows installer was contributed by Johannes Roith.

Oct 26th: Last Minute Mono BOF

Oct 25th: GTK# 0.11+ Windows Installer available

Johannes created a Windows Installer for GTK# 0.11+ and works with Mono 0.28 for Windows.

Oct 21st: Mono Community at Novell Forge

Mono Developers that are looking for a public repository for hosting their projects can now use Novell Forge's which hosts a Mono Community.

Novell Forge offers mailing lists, cvs repository, bug tracking and mailing list services and all the other services you expect. Mono will continue to be hosted in our own CVS repository, and using our anonymous CVS servers

Oct 13th: SPARC V9, HPPA, Internationalization, GdiPlus

Dick Porter has checked in our rewrite of the international substrate in Mono that uses the International Components for Unicode library from IBM. This means that we got CultureInfo support through the whole code base now.

Alexandre Pigolkine has checked-in the new implementation of System.Drawing. We have now dropped the old implementation with multiple-backends that we had, and replaced it with an implementation that P/Invokes into GDI+. A GDI+ implementation on top of Cairo is used on Unix systems. This step vastly simplifies the development and maintenance of System.Drawing.

There are plenty of updates to Mono as well, we encourage you to read the Monologue to keep an eye on recent developments.

Bernie Solomon just checked in 64-bit support for SPARC v9 and HPPA into the Mono runtime. This also improves the SPARC-32 support.

Oct 6th: Linux s390 Mono packages available.

Neale Ferguson has contributed Mono packages for the Linux/s390. You can get them from the download page.

Oct 5th: Monologue aggregates Mono Blogs

You can now read an aggregated view of the blogs maintained by Mono developers in Monologue. Monologue is available as an HTML page or as an RSS feed.

Oct 2nd: Windows packages, MonoDoc 0.7

Windows packages for Mono 0.28 are now available from our download page.

A new version of MonoDoc has been released. The new version is available here

Oct 1st: Mono 0.28 has been released.

Check out the Release notes for details on Mono 0.28. This release marks the completion of the SourceGear project to add web services functionality to Mono and improve its reliability.

Sep 30th: Mono Kick Start book available

The Mono Kick Start book is now available in English. Originally available only in German. The book technical review was done by Dietmar Maurer JIT architect at the Mono team.

Sep 26th, 2003: DiaCanvas# 0.1 released, Gtk# 0.11 released.

Mike Kestner has released a new version of Gtk#.

Martin has also released his binding to DiaCanvas for C#.

Sep 16th, 2003: WineLib, Authenticode, Generics, Xslt updates, Wsdl compiler, WSE.

WineLib: Vladimir has added new libraries to the Wine process, which we will soon bring into our packages: the various Windows common dialogs can now be used (screenshots: here, here, here and here.

Johannes has patches to have Wine track the Gtk theme, screenshot here

Security: New authenticode support from Sebastien has been checked into CVS.

Xslt: Plenty of conformance updates to the managed implementation of Xslt, as well as breaking the libxslt speed barrier. Our managed implementation is now faster than the C-based libxslt that we used before.

Generics: Work continues on generics support, feel free to try it out. The compiler is currently on a separate directory until we stability it (gmcs) and you need to compile the class libraries with the `generics' profile to try it out. Sample generic programs are included in the CVS module.

Wsdl: We now have Wsdl support in Mono: a wsdl compiler command line tool, and support on ASP.NET to generate the wsdl file from an .asmx file.

AOT: Many robustness updates to the ahead-of-time compiler and a new locking and threading system that avoids having "big locks" around the mono kernel, and moves to a fine-grained locking system. The design includes a lattice to avoid deadlocks.

Dogfooding: We are now running Mono's ASP.NET on go-mono.com to find problems. It is currently hosting our Monodoc documentation. The Apache module version and the XSP version.

WSE: The Web Services Enhancements season has begun. The Microsoft.Web.Services namespace and classes are now checked into CVS.

Sep 1st, 2003: Ice for Mono; XmlSerializer generators; Monodoc progress.

Ice: Vladimir has checked into CVS (Module ginzu) an implementation of ZeroC's ICE protocol. It is implemented using Remoting. If you were looking for an efficient binary protocol to use with Remoting, this is it.

ICE is simpler to use than CORBA, and was created by people who were deeply involved in CORBA and wanted to fix its problems (you can see a list of differences).

XmlSerializer: Lluis has checked in a new technology for use in our XmlSerializer: the XmlSerializer code generator. Currently our XmlSerializer generates a description of instructions for serializing data, these instructions are later interpreted while using it: Reflection is used to pull all the data. The code generator is the first step into turning the Serializer from an intepreter into a compiler and improving the performance of it.

Currently was used internally to implement the WSDL serializer, in the future it will just be part of the standard serialization process.

MonoDoc: New providers! Thanks to Jon Jagger for providing us with his master XML files for the C# specification we now have integrated the C# spec into Monodoc. Another provider is the Error provider: now we include all the C# compiler errors in the help system.

Alp has contributed various user interface improvement, and updated our list widget for key navigation; Ben made the matches window more useful and Joshua has helped us clean up the ECMA provider even more.

Aug 14th, 2003: Mono 0.26 has been released

A new version of Mono is available, the new features include: Cairo support, Remoting.Corba support, as well as a managed XSLT implementation.

Existing features have been improved vastly: better Windows.Forms, runtime, faster compiler, web services, better compliance to the spec and more.

Check out the Release notes for details.

Aug 9th, 2003: Python for .NET Preview 2 available; Mono Documentation site up.

Brian Lloyd has announced the availability of his Python binding to .NET. This works with .NET and Mono. For more information about it, see Brian's site at http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/

We have uploaded the current Mono Documentation (core libraries and Gtk#) to http://mono.ximian.com:8080. The site is running the ASP.NET edition of MonoDoc 0.6 on XSP.

Aug 6th, 2003: Winforms samples

The screenshots of the various widgets, together with the source code is available on the WineSamples page on the Mono Wiki.

A new cvs module called `winforms' has been created that contains the source code for the samples. To run the samples, you can install the WineLib packages available from our download page.

Aug 5th, 2003: New Apache Module architecture: 1.3 and 2.x supported

Aug 4th, 2003: Ximian acquired by Novell.

Today Novell acquired Ximian. The press release is available here.

Mono and Gnome form an integral part of the Novell strategy.

Looking for volunteers

• More tests to the existing class libraries.
• Finish existing class libraries, check our class status pages to see all the missing things. There are open tasks all over the place: XML, Database access, enterprise services, configuration, ASP.NET, Drawing APIs, and more.

• Since we have now ASP.NET running, we would like to create an ASP.NET application to maintain our class library documentation.

  We have some special needs (read them here). There is a prototype written using Windows.Forms, but we believe it will be faster to have this done using ASP.NET (and it is also a nice way of stress testing it).

• Support for the VB runtime: we need contributions to make our VB runtime mature enough to host applications compiled with the VB.NET to run with Mono.

• We need people to help write the documentation: you can start editing our XML files by hand, and once we have the ASP.NET tool, upgrade to that.

Jul 30th, 2003: Remoting.CORBA, Managed XSLT.

Today Lluis announced that Mono CVS contains all the fixes to run Remoting.CORBA: both client and server channels work; We are interested in people testing it with other ORBs.

Ben checked-in today his managed implementation of Xslt that we mentioned on Jul 19th; This uncovered various limitations on the XPath implementation, which Piers has swifly removed. Monodoc, NUnit and our Corcompare work with it. Since this is implementation is not completed yet, we still support the libxslt-based version by default. For more details on how to try the new XSLT implementation, see Ben's post

Jul 27th, 2003: Wine packages and Daily Snapshots

MonoWine packages (used to run System.Windows.Forms) software are now available from our (download page). You can track the progress on our Wiki page.

We're now building daily snapshots of Mono. They come in three distinct flavors:

• mono snapshot tarballs - These are 'release-style' tarballs and contain everything necessary to setup a new installation from scratch. This includes the Mono runtime and all the assemblies we distribute.

• monocharge tarballs - These tarballs contain only the assemblies built on that day.

• monolite tarballs - These tarballs contain a copy of 'corlib.dll', 'mcs.exe', 'System.dll', 'System.Xml.dll' and 'Mono.CSharp.Debugger.dll'. They can be used to re-bootstrap an out-of-sync installation.

The daily builds are availble here: http://go-mono.com/daily

If you find that the builds are broken, please notify Duncan.

Jul 19th, 2003: Recent developments

Lluis recently posted an update on the state of WSDL in Mono. Now that the web services runtime is ready, the WSDL compiler becomes more important as a development tool.

Atsushi continues his work on the DTD validating reader in System.Xml, as well as improving our XML Schema support.

Jul 14th, 2003: New build system; IPV6 support.

Peter explains the new build system here

Jerome's IPV6 code has been checked into CVS; With Peter's new build system, we will be able to expose it (as part of the NET_1_1 build).

2003年7月9日: ASP.NET web services, カバー範囲ツール

これ以上の詳細は、Lluis による投稿を見てください。

GUI-wise: Work on Xr to implement System.Drawing continues. This will provide a full GDI+ implementation for Mono, and this will be hooked up into Gtk# and System.Windows.Forms.

MonoDoc keeps moving along, with a new web-based version coming up next, and we are also exploring a collaborative extension to allow people to contribute documentation through their web browsers.

Zoltan のカバー範囲分析ツールがCVSにチェックされました。 このツールを使えば、どのクラスライブラリのコードパスがリグレッションテストを通過していないかが分かります。モジュールは 'monocov' です。詳しくはこちら。新しいGtk#バージョンも利用可能です。

Jean の リモーティング ベースのSoap実装が完成度を高めてきました。

6月26日: Mono 0.25 がリリースされました

私たちは Mono 0.25 をリリースしました。新機能の一覧はこちらにあります。

Windowsおよび各種Linuxディストリビューション用のパッケージは、私たちのダウンロード ページにあります。

2003年6月17日: Webサービス クライアント; プロファイリングの仕掛け

Jun 11th, 2003: SourceGear and Ximian announce partnership

Read more...

Some technical details are available here.

May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches.

OpenLink announced the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a library that can be used dynamically from Mono. This work simplifies the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer necessary have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub program. The patches are available here.

Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the download page.

May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono

Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the Eclipse IDE running on top of Mono+IKVM.

A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found here

May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships

We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code generation engine. A list of the new features is available here.

Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are available on our download page. We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.

Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.

OpenLink's released their Virtuoso 3.0 database system. Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux. On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and ASP.NET. Congratulations to OpenLink for their release.

Virtuoso can be downloaded here and a demo is available here.

OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on an ongoing basis.

Jon Udell wrote a small entry

Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.

Atsushi has created a RelaxNG validating XML reader.

There is activity on the GotMono forums and the Gtk# Wiki

Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out; Team pages.

The first book to cover Mono is out. This book is currently only available in German, you can find it here

We now have a page for the Mono Team where we include a list of some of the people who have made Mono possible. If you have CVS access, please update the page to include your information.

Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.

The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the details are here

Zoltan has commited his typed allocation patches to CVS as well.

Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT#

Gonzalo has checked in his Gtk#-based NUnit tool. Screenshots are here and here

Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS, module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the details

The SWT port to C# using Gtk is progressing. Screenshots are here.

Mar 28th: Mono community site.

www.gotmono.com has openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.

Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey

Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.

Mar 7th: Mono 0.23

A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release notes are here. This is mostly a bug fix release. No new features.

Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.

Mono 0.22 has been released. See the release notes. This is a bug fix release.

A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser has been released.

Martin also announced a new release of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).

Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga

The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame continues to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that make mono:: a successful free software project.

Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the point of running the IKVM Java virtual machine.

Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.

A new mailing list for Mono Development has been created.

Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released

Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release. The release notes are available.

Windows binary is available here

Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.

Packages of Mono for Windows have been released. Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.

Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that handles ASP.NET. The code is available at here

Nick has posted an update on the progress on our regression tests. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.

Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort, momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.

Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.

Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the release notes for an overview of the changes. You can get it here. There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes and performance improvements.

Gtk# 0.8 has been released

Important: The contributed binaries for Windows binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read this if you installed the binary.

Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#

Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to how to complete this process here. Mail the mono-docs-list@ximian.com for further discussion.

Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates.

Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for Gnome. A screenshot can be seen here. The bindings are available on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a straight binding to the C API.

Marco has posted an update on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler for Mono.

We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)

Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site

A Mono site in Poland.

Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS. If you want to contribute please read this message

Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco (compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).

Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.

Mono Weekly News: Includes a new interview, software announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.

Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1

A preliminary release of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble. Release notes

2003年1月22日: Mono が受賞, OpenLink がVirtuosoをリリース

Mono がLinux World Expoで「ベスト オープンソース プロジェクト」賞を 受賞しました。ここで説明されています。

Open Link が Virtuoso 3.0についてのプレスリリースを出しています: Monoを使った、初めての商用製品の出荷です。

2003年1月20日: Mono 0.19 リリース; スクリーンショット ページ; Gtk# 0.7

Mono 0.19 がリリースされました。変更の概要はリリースノートを見てください。 こちらからダウンロードすることが出来ます。 このリリースは、何も重要な機能を含みません。主にバグフィックスと パフォーマンス向上です。

われわれは、様々なMonoアプリケーションのスクリーンショットのために、新しいセクションを追加しました。 ここで新しくリリースされたDebuggerと、現在進行中のドキュメンテーション ブラウザを、見ることができます。

Gtk# 0.7がリリースされました

2003年1月19日: Mono Debugger がリリースされました。

リリースの詳細はこの投稿で見ることが出来ます。

このdebuggerにはGtk#とコマンドライン インターフェースの両方が含まれています。 デバッグのファイル フォーマットはDwarfです（これは既にわれわれの クラスライブラリおよびMono C#コンパイラでサポートされているものです; Cアプリケーションをデバッグするのに、あなたは最新のGCC、あるいは gccに -gdwarf-2 フラグを渡す必要があります）。

2003年1月17日: DB2 プロバイダ, MacOS X

Zoltan がIKVM (.NET用の Java VM) をMonoで実行できるようになりました。 HelloWorld.class がMono のランタイムで動作します。

2003年1月13日: Mono 0.18 リリース

Mono 0.18 がリリースされました。変更の概要については、リリースノートを見て下さい。 こちらから入手することが出来ます。

Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.

新しいMono Weekly News の特集が発行されました。

Sebastienが置いてくれたCryptoのステータスのページを見て下さい。

2003年1月3日: Glade#, コードカバー範囲, Apache, MBas, Debugger

Zoltan が、Monoのコードのカバー範囲 分析ツールを投稿してくれました。

2002年12月17日: Mono: 商用利用

Tipic が今日、インスタント メッセージング サーバ プラットフォームをMono上で実行するための移植作業について発表しました。

Winfessor も、彼らのJabber SDKをMono上で利用可能にすることを 発表しました。

また、2週間前に、私たちは Also two weeks ago we mentioned OpenLink Softwareによる、彼らの製品の 発表についても触れましたが、やはりMonoを使っています。

2002年12月10日: Gtk# 0.6 リリース; WindowsとDebian用のMono 0.17パッケージ

Mike Kestnerが Gtk# 0.6をアナウンスしました。 この新しいリリースには、数多くの新機能とバグフィックスが含まれており、Mono 0.17 リリースに完全に合わせたものです。

Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17, and its available from our download page.

JohannesがWindows用のMono 0.17パッケージに貢献してくれました。 これはわれわれのダウンロード ページから利用可能です。

Alp Toker が Debianパッケージを作りました。

2002年12月9日: Mono 0.17 がリリースされました

Mono 0.17 がリリースされました。詳細なリストはリリース ノートを見てください。 ここから入手できます。

数多くの機能とバグフィックスがなされました。 たくさんの新しいSystem.Data プロバイダと、任意のwebサーバでホストできる、 より完成度の高いSystem.Web (ASP.NET) があります。 asp.netをホストする、シンプルなテストwebサーバもリリースされました。

このバージョンでは、Nealeのs390移植も発展しています。

このリリースには、gcc例外情報を使う、新しい例外ハンドリングシステムも含まれています。これは、われわれの内部呼び出しの速度を改善しました（mcsのコンパイル時間が15%速くなりました）。

2002年12月8日: VB.NET, Oracleプロバイダ

スクリーンショット: WindowsでWindows.Formsを使っているものと、LinuxでVBで Gtk# を使っているものです (Alpの好意によるものです).

また、Daniel Morganが、OracleプロバイダをCVSリポジトリにチェックしました。

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.

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:

• Mono Keynote presentation

• Hosting the Mono Runtime
  The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available here

• The Mono JIT compiler

• Mono C# Compiler Overview

A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe are available here in Open Office file format.

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.

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.

Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.

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.

Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.

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.

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 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 Mono Documentation Tools.

Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.

Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how it looks here and here. Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on the screenshot).

Gtk# has seen a lot of activity specially as we start to build larger applications. Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it. mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and Gtk# is seen here.

Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.

Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress. The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular processor, or use profile-based information to improve the performance.

Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.

Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are available. The release notes are here.

Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code. Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level single-stepping).

Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.

Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the First Mono Survey

Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban

The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame continues to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made mono:: a successful free software project.

This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has been a long time contributor to the project, from the early work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.

Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms

Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have chosen not to document the code inline). This includes the use of a master reference file that will hold the entry points to document. All master files for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.

Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.

Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages, but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk# UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working on making a good UI in the future.

Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries. This is the substrate for implementing the System.DirectoryServices assembly.

Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic classes implementation.

After much public debate, we have chosen a new strategy to implement winforms. Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based implementation.

Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available

The .NET ONE 2002 conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner will talk about Gtk# and the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.

Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration

Sterling announced an Apache module that hosts Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding API.

Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released

Shortly after Mono 0.15 was released a fresh version of Gtk# was announced.

Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released

Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are available. The release notes are here

Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.

Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET

Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET

Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of MonoCIL.

On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting support, exception handling, as well as completing the support for structure marshaling.

Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP into our main class library and providing the missing pieces to integrate with Patrik's code.

Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.

A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been checked into CVS.

Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame

The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame has been started to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made mono:: a successful free software project.

The first, deserved, entry goes to Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.

July 31st, 2002: Flow Analysis

Jul 31st, 2002: Most ASP.NET controls render, Gtk# structs.

Gonzalo posted an update on the ASP.NET widgets that are still pending. Patrik is back, and he is working with Gonzalo to streamline the pipeline

Rachel quietly committed to Gtk-Sharp support for marshaling structures (very important for Gtk#). This uses extensively the new marshaling code that Dietmar added to the runtime.

Dietmar is also now sharing more code for P/Invoke using his intermediate representation. Another step to share more code, and simplify the porting and maintenance process.

Jul 27th, 2002: NGEN tool for Mono.

Zoltan announced the availability of his CIL to C compiler. This allows your Mono assemblies to be pre-compiled and optimized by GCC in your platform, increasing the speed significantly of your code.

Jul 26th, 2002: Mono 0.13 has been released.

Mono 0.13 has been released! (details here). Get your sources for the runtime and compiler and class libraries.

Alp made Debian packages and they are here. Cristophe made packages for Red Hat and they are here. And Windows packages have been contributed

Jul 23rd, 2002: Mono Verifier, System.Web.Services, ASP.NET samples.

Jul 20th, 2002: Spanish Mono Tutorial.

A Spanish tutorial on using Mono is here. Also the FAQ has been translated as well.

Jul 19th, 2002: File handle redirection, Embeddable Mono and Mono Linux compilation.

Peter Williams and Martin contributed some Makefiles to compile all of Mono on Linux. Details are here.

Jul 17th, 2002

The first documentary on Ximian's development team is now available online, from young director Erik Pukinskis: "Code Monkey At Work".

A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now online.

More progress on the ASP.NET front: user defined controls are now being rendered, as well as many of the sample programs from www.asp.net. Gonzalo's work can be found on module XSP (this implements the .aspx compiler).

Sergey Chaban has got Gtk# working on Windows, you can see some screenshots: sample apps and running with a Russian charset.

Jul 16th, 2002

Jul 9th, 2002

Ajay was the first to notice Mono's first birthday.

In a year, we have achieved plenty:

• 94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers).
• A complete CLI implementation:
  • A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation).
  • An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm).
• A self-hosting C# compiler, which can compile its class libraries.
• 37,140 file changes in CVS.
• 92,000 lines of C code.
• 437,000 lines of C# code (compiler, classes, tests)
• A working core for ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
• Major subsystems are functional: RegularExpressions, System.XML, XML.Schema, System.Data, System.Web.
• The Gtk# project, which is maturing rapidly.

Thanks to everyone who has made Mono possible with their feedback, regression tests, their comments, their help on the mailing list, code contributions, complete classes, bug reporting, the countless hours of bug hunting. This project would not have been possible without every contribution.

It has been a great year for everyone involved in the project. I think we have built a new and exciting community.

Now we have a solid foundation to build on, so this next year looks even more exciting: not only because we will see more Mono applications, but we will begin using Mono as an `library' to be linked with applications that want to get scripting-like features; Gtk# is our ticket to create nice GNOME applications; And we will be developing CORBA bindings to integrate with other object systems.

Also, for those interested in optimizations and tuning, this year we will get to play with more advanced optimizations and all kinds of interesting research ideas for improving Mono code generation.

A special thanks to the Mono developers at Ximian for managing to survive their manager and a special thanks to our regression test marshal Nick Drochak, who has been hunting down, and fixing code in our class libraries and keeping us on track for so long.

Jul 8th, 2002

Alp Toker has released version 0.5 of Phonic, a media player for .NET. Phonic makes extensive use of Mono-developed technologies such as Gtk# and csvorbis (Ogg player ported by Mark). Hopefully we will be seeing many more exciting applications like these in the near future.

Dietmar has been moving a lot of the architecture specific code in the JIT engine to our internal representation. This means that porting the JIT is simpler now, as there is less architecture-specific code to maintain. The inliner, constant folder and constant propagation are also done at the architecture independent layer.

Gonzalo is now running the sample ASP.NET applications on Linux with the Mono runtime. It still needs polishing though, and help with the various ASP.NET controls would be appreciated. The ASP.NET community seems more poor than the PHP community, we need to have a few open source controls to do things dynamic rendering (libart+gdk-pixbuf again can do most of the work), charts and components like the kind of thing you see in the PHP universe: to bring nice GPL code to the masses of Windows developers, lure them into the world of Linux.

Dick has also got us the new Process implementation that implements the Win32 semantics. Now only redirection is missing.

Jul 3rd, 2002

Listen to Paolo Molaro do a talk on Mono at the WebIT conference in Padova, Italy this coming friday. Details are here

You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip: here

Miguel will be doing a couple of talks at the O'Reilly conference about Mono: status update, progress and developing applications with it. Details are here and here

Jun 30, 2002

Jun 25, 2002

I am updating the Mono site from the UNESCO offices in Uruguay, the South-America trip to promote free software is going very well.

Many news in Mono-land this week so far:

Mike Kestner got bindings for GtkHTML last night for Gtk#, this is using GtkHTML 2.0.

On Monday Piers Haken contributed the core to support XPath in Mono: most of the w3c spec is implemented (modulo a few pending bits).

Dick checked in his implementation of the Process classes: process forking and waiting support committed, with some functions to query status. This was complex as we had to emulate the Win32 environment, but this is another step to be fully compatible. This means for example that any process can check on the status of any other process (without the parent/child relationship)

Of course, those interested in only the Unix semantics can always P/Invoke the Unix calls.

Jun 24, 2002

Duncan has written a few sample Gtk# demo applications (screen shot, another)

Rachel also got the beginning of Gnome bindings (screenshot). She also got some documentation up now.

Jun 22, 2002

Also, we are getting close to self hosting. Paolo posted a list of pending issues which are now very small.

Steam is picking up in Gtk# as the bindings become more complete and small applications are starting to emerge. Gtk# now compiles completely on Linux. This uses a lot of the XML libraries, which is nice to see.

Jun 20, 2002

Jun 19, 2002

You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS compiler daily from Alp Toker's website. New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on Richard Torkar's site.

Jun 10, 2002

Ajay announced today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.

Jun 7, 2002

You can get it Here (quick links: runtime and compiler/classes).

Jun 3rd, 2002

May 31, 2002

ADO support: Daniel has checked in a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad. And Rodrigo started the OleDB using LibGDA.

May 27, 2002

An RSS feed is now available for the Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools that process this data.

Binaries for Windows are now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.

May 26, 2002

May 24, 2002

Ajay has checked in a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace.

Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render and data binding tags, style properties in style tags, ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties.

May 22, 2002

MonoLogo runs on the Mono runtime. This screenshot shows MonoLogo running Gtk#.

May 21, 2002

Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now it is possible to get line number information on stack traces.

May 20, 2002

XSP our ASP.NET .aspx page parser is now available on the AnonCVS servers. This is part of the ASP.NET support in Mono. Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it.

Many updates to the ADO.NET implementation from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo.

Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and compiling most of our regression test suite.

Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and polishing the underlying network infrastructure.

The Rafael and Chris have committed the beginning of the VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS.

Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter

May 9, 2002

Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT engine. Read about it

May 5, 2002

We are able to retrieve simple data from the database using our ADO.NET like functionality. Only string and integer data types are supported right now but more are in the works. You can find more information at The Mono ADO-NET Page Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim, and others for these bits.

May 4th, 2002

Rodrigo Moya announced new LibGDA: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems. This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which should make it easier to use and compile.

This is another milestone for our ADO.NET implementation plans

We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on Tuesday ;-)

May 2nd, 2002

Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and Richard Hestilow's MonoLogo compiler are now on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS.

Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono. This is needed to fully emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API expose to applications.

News from the Gtk# front: Menu support, Mike tells the story

May 1st, 2002

Daily packages for Debian are available here

Apr 26, 2002

Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for Windows (Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for Linux (thanks to BaseLabs).

Apr 24, 2002

A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are included. The Release Notes are available.

You can get it Here (quick links: runtime and compiler/classes).

Apr 23, 2002

SharpDevelop 0.88a is out!

Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for their new release.

Apr 20, 2002

ADO.NET: Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been working on the ADO.NET support, and got the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and exceptions work). Check mono-patches for all the goodies.

Optimizations: A number of optimizations in the runtime made the compiler twice as fast this week:

Early this week Patrik started the string rewrite in the runtime. Today Dietmar finished the constructors and deployed the new layout.

Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved.

Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues with our current array layout, and contributed a new array representation.

At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and implemented constant propagation. These two optimizations together are very powerful.

Bug fixing: And of course everyone has been helping out with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick, Ravi, Sergey)

Apr 18, 2002

Apr 11, 2002

Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been released

Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are available for people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.

Apr 6, 2002

Advanced .NET Remoting from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in remoting.

Apr 5, 2002

Mar 28, 2002

Mar 27, 2002

A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are included. The Release Notes are available.

You can get it Here (quick links: runtime and compiler/classes).

Mar 26, 2002

Gtk# runs Hello World. Mike posted some details.

Mar 19, 2002

Mar 12, 2002

Mar 9, 2002

Updated the class status, now it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific assembly.

Mar 7, 2002

Today Paolo got the MCS compiler compiling itself on Linux completely for the first time! The resulting image still contains some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now. Later in the day and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile speed was improved in 400%

We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now.

Mono is temporarily using the Bohem GC garbage collector while we deploy the more advanced ORP one.

Mar 5, 2002

The CVS repository can be browsed

Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented.

Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently revamped regression test suite.

Piers has updated our class status page again, with even more information available.

The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi killed bugs of bugs in the Mono Bug List

Mar 1, 2002

RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at mono.baselabs.com

Feb 28, 2002

Christophe has setup his First Steps in Mono web site, which shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system.

RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at mono.baselabs.org

Feb 27, 2002

New class status engine that provides detailed information about missing functionality in our class libraries. Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers did the XSLT and DHTML magic.

More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)

Feb 26, 2002

Paolo posted a list of ways you can help if you do not have Windows right now. Sergey followed up with his suggestions.

Feb 25, 2002

Feb 24, 2002

Feb 22, 2002

A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has been packaged for your download pleasure. The Release Notes

You can get it Here (quick links: runtime and compiler/classes).

Feb 21, 2002

Feb 20, 2002

New easy to run scripts for compiling Mono on Unix and Windows is available. We can now easily compile Mono on Windows and Linux. If you had trouble before, use the above scripts which will get the setup right for you.

There are now three machines that can provide AnonCVS, just use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and you will get one of the machines.

Feb 19, 2002

Do you want to see what Mono Looks Like?

Feb 18, 2002

Feb 13, 2002

Miguel is off to the FOSDEM conference in Brussels.

Feb 11, 2002

You can get it Here (quick links: runtime and compiler/classes)

Feb 11, 2002

An explanation of the relationship between GNOME and Mono.

Nick is still leading our test suite platform. I can not stress how important it is to have a good regression test suite for our platform, as buggy class libraries are what are stopping the compiler from running completely on Linux.

We are of course psyched to see Mono run on non-Linux systems. Work is moving on native code generation for StrongARM, PowerPC, and SPARC as well as porting Mono to other systems.

There are a couple of debates on the Mono list on implementing a set of web server classes for enabling ASP.NET on Mono.

Paolo also posted a list of pending tasks to enable the compiler to run on Linux

Feb 10, 2002

Mike Kestner has posted an Update on his Gtk# activities.

Feb 4, 2002

Adam has done Qt bindings for .NET. Adam is cool.

Jan 29, 2002

Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to Mono: System.Text.RegularExpressions.

This is a fully .NET compatible implementation of the .NET regular expressions, fully Unicode aware. This contribution is very appreciated, as implementing this was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super set of the Perl regex engine).

Jan 28, 2002

The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under the terms of the MIT X11 license.

This license is an Open Source license, and is used by other projects (most notably, the XFree86 project).

The runtime (JIT, metadata library, interpreter) remains under the LGPL and the C# compiler remains under the GPL.

Our Press Release

Press coverage: CNet, Wired, InfoWorld, NewsForge.

Jan 23, 2002

New mailing list: mono-patches@ximian.com. This mailing list will receive automatically the patches that are submitted to the Mono CVS to any of its modules.

This allows anyone who wants to participate in the peer-review of the code submitted to CVS to receive patches on e-mail. It should also expose to everyone the changes that are being done by the team every day.

Jan 21, 2002

Dick has got a simple web server running with Mono (`MIS: Mono Internet Server') that is mostly used to test our IO layer, a screenshot

Paolo and Dietmar are busy making our runtime self sufficient on non-Windows platforms.

C# compiler front: A lot of focus in the past weeks after the C# became self hosting has been in making the compiler a useful tool for development: improve error handling, provide better error reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler has begun.

Jan 8, 2002

Jan 4, 2002

Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch. Class libraries and runtimes are now fully Unicode aware. The details are here

Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to compile fib.cs, patches are coming tomorrow once we have ChangeLog entries.

Jan 4, 2002

Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# New year, new direction.

Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing System.Windows.Forms.

Jan 3, 2002

Join the fun by downloading either tonight's snapshot or getting your sources from our Anonymous CVS server.

Dec 28, 2001

Dec 18, 2001

Dec 14, 2001

Dec 11, 2001

You can get your copy of the latest Mono

More work is also required on fixing the foundation class libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the `make test' going.

Dec 1, 2001

AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour). Thanks to HispaLinux and Jesus Climent for helping to set this up.

Nov 30, 2001

Nov 28, 2001

Nov 16, 2001

Mike Kestner has posted an update on Gtk# development.

Nov 14, 2001

Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux. It compiles a sample program and then the sample program is executed.

Mutator unary operators (++ and --) in the compiler are fully functional, they used to only work on variables, and now they are complete.

To sum things up: The Mono C# compiler is written in C# and uses the .NET classes to get its work done. To make this work on Linux work has to happen in various fronts:

• The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile many programs now (our test suite at this point is made up of 40 tests).

• The class libraries need to be mature enough to support the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is what Paolo has been working on lately).

  The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: monodis --typeref mcs.exe

• The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.

At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will replace our interpreter in production.

Nov 12, 2001

Nov 8, 2001

Nov 5, 2001

Nov 4, 2001

Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting update on his work on Gtk#.

Ravi committed the initial support for Attributes in the compiler.

Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.

Paolo checked in his new System.Reflection and System.Reflection.Emit implementations. He has been working steadily on this huge task for a few weeks now. This is the foundation for the Mono C# compiler, and hence a very important piece of the puzzle.

Nov 3, 2001

Nov 1, 2001

Oct 27, 2001

Oct 18, 2001

Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and properties. 11 days until Evolution 1.0 ships.

Ximian users around the world rejoice with recent C# compiler progress.

Oct 17, 2001

Oct 15, 2001

Oct 5, 2001

Sergey has released his first version of the ilasm assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page: http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua.

The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop eventually.

Oct 4, 2001

Sep 28, 2001

Sharp Develop 0.80 was released today.

Sep 26, 2001

Sep 21, 2001

Sep 19, 2001

Paolo has written a section on Porting Mono to other architectures.

Sep 18, 2001

Mono 0.7 has been released (runtime engine, class libraries and C# compiler). Check the Mono 0.7 announcement for details

Sep 17, 2001

Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS repository. Gtk# can run a simple hello world application. The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in C#. You can see the Gtk# Hello World program here

Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.

Sep 10, 2001

Sep 5, 2001

Sep 4, 2001

Aug 28, 2001

Aug 23, 2001

Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they are available here: http://csgl.sourceforge.net

Aug 22, 2001

New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been released. Check the 0.6 announcement.

A new Compilation service has been made available by Derek to allow people without access to the .NET SDK

Aug 3, 2001

Jul 29, 2001

Mono Runtime 0.5 has been released. Check the release notes

Jul 25, 2001

The slides for my presentation at O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention

Jul 22, 2001

Another release of the class libraries is out, check the MCS 22-July Release Notes. You can get the new class libraries from here

Jul 19, 2001

Another release of the class libraries is out, check the MCS 19-July Release Notes. You can get the new class libraries from here

Another release of the class libraries is out, check the MCS 17-July Release Notes. You can get the new class libraries from here

Do not forget to check out the updated FAQ.

Got Sean's new Class Status web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and we are now keeping better track of contributors.

Jul 15, 2001

Another release of Mono is out, check the Mono 0.4 Release Notes. Get it here.

Jul 14, 2001

A new release of the runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it here

Jul 12, 2001

I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when Mono has nothing to do with it. I finally wrote something.

Jul 9, 2001

O'Reilly

Brian posted a story on O'Reilly Network .NET