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Mono 2.11.0 is out

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:32:48 GMT

Michael de Icaza details the various new features and enhancements that come with the important new 2.11 milestone of the Mono project. This includes largely complete support for the new SGen garbage collector, .NET 4.5 and C# 5.0 support (including partial WinRT support), and a number of other exciting changes.

Mono in 2011

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:28:36 GMT

Mono in 2011 This was a very interesting year for Mono, and I wanted to capture some of the major milestones and news from the project as well as sharing a bit of what is coming up for Mono in 2012.

Using Background Threads in Mono For Android Applications

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 09:37:09 GMT

When writing applications one thing to always keep in mind is that you should never block the UI thread. This makes for a poor user experience, and on Android you get the dreaded Application Not Responding dialog if there's no response to user input within a few seconds. Mono For Android exposes many different ways to do asynchronous operations to help avoid this problem. In this article I'll go over some of the different options you can pick from.

Static Method Interception in .NET with C# and Mono.Cecil

Sat, 02 May 2009 02:01:02 GMT

Interested in Mono.Cecil? A very short introduction to a very cool and powerful tool.

OpenSuse vs. Ubuntu for .Net Developers

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:31:03 GMT

Many .Net developers are playing with Linux on the side because it is free but which Linux should you choose to use if you are a .Net developer?

Novell's Mono brings SIMD support to C#

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:31:21 GMT

Parallel programming is not just about multi-threading and multi-core. There's also a lot of power in the SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) extended instruction set available in most modern microprocessors from Intel and AMD. From Dr Dobb's Go Parallel blog.

Getting Mono and Visual Studio to play nice together :: Part 2

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:01:02 GMT

Chris Cyvas continues his profiles of getting Mono and Visual Studio to play nice together. In a previous post, Chris documented how to get some Mono Project Templates to work with Visual Studio. In this post, Chris creates some Mono Item Templates for use with your Mono Project Templates.

Develop .NET on MacOS X

Sun, 08 Feb 2009 09:46:02 GMT

A small information about .NET Development under Mac OS X with Mono

Mono 2.0 Released

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:01:15 GMT

The Mono Project has released version 2.0 of Mono, enabling developers to run their .Net 2.0 applications on Linux and OSX.

Embeddable C# Compiler

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:46:05 GMT

Manuel de Icaza created an embeddable C# compiler for Mono.

Pash - cross platform PowerShell

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:16:15 GMT

Pash is a portable PowerShell implementation written using pure .Net 2.0. It compiles on VS 2008 as well as on Mono. Provide a rich shell environment for other OSes, as well as a hostable scripting engine for rich applications. The user experience should be seamless for people who are used to PowerShell on Windows.

Mono, a look forward

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:01:09 GMT

A brief look at where Mono is and where's it going.

.NET Rocks! Miguel de Icaza and Geoff Norton on Mono

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:01:02 GMT

Miguel is back to talk Mono with Geoff Norton. Many things have changed since we last talked to Miguel about the Mono project, an open-source port of the .NET Framework that runs on Windows, Linux, and the Mac. The focus is mostly about running .NET apps on the Mac.

Migrating .NET Applications with Mono

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 07:16:02 GMT

For quite some time, it's been possible to move applications from Windows to Linux with the Mono platform. The latest release of Mono has delivered the most feature-complete Windows Forms support to date, and has also added a new VB.NET compiler.

Support for Visual Basic.net on Mono

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:31:01 GMT

Mono team announced the support for Visual Basic.net on mono

Bitsharp - BitTorrent library

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:16:01 GMT

BitSharp is the product of Googles Summer of Code 2006. It is a complete BitTorrent suite of libraries which can be embedded in an application. The suite contains: 1. Client Library - Allows the uploading/downloading of torrents. 2. Tracker Library - Allows the hosting of .torrents. 3. Torrent Creator - Allows the creation and editing of .torrent files. All of these libraries were written with Mono in mind. As a result these libraries will function on any operating system that supports either the Microsoft .NET Framework or Mono Framework, be it Windows, Linux, MacOs or other.

Getting Mono and MySQL to Play Nice

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:46:01 GMT

While messing about with Mono and MySQL on Fedora Core 6, I came across a particularly aggravating bug.The current .Net/Mono driver provided for MySQL has an odd flaw in the way the code is written. If you've tried the driver using .Net, you would never know it's there, but if you're using it under Mono then you've definitely come across it.

Mono is committed to support C# 3.0

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:01:02 GMT

Mono the open source implementation of CLI/CLR on Windows/Linux/Unix/Mac ... etc has announced that they are committed to support C# 3.0 & LINQ

Mono Migration Analyzer

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:01:01 GMT

A useful tool for determining how much work it will take to migrate your applicaiton to Mono.

Run ASP.NET applications on Ubuntu

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:31:05 GMT

The ASP.NET development environment on Ubuntu Linux is called XSP. This is a simple webserver written in C# that can be used for either ASP.NET 1.0 or 2.0 applications. You can install both environments side by side if need be.

Mono Migration Analyzer

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:01:02 GMT

"Now this is a stroke of genius. If you want people to consider making their .NET applications work on Mono, give them a tool that informs them ahead of time how much trouble (or how easy) it will be to migrate to Mono."

Mono 1.2 Released

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 19:31:01 GMT

Mono 1.2 was just released. Includes comprehensive Windows Forms support, .NET 2.0 features, and more.

Third Mono Beta Released

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:01:02 GMT

Mono 1.1.16, the third beta of version 1.2, has been released. The time span between the release of versions 1.1.15 and 1.1.16 is one of the longest in several years and the number of changes included reflects that, again System.Windows.Forms (SWF) and System.Drawing got the most attention.

Creating OS X applications with MS Visual Studio Express

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:01:01 GMT

This tutorial teaches you how to write a Mac OS X application with Microsoft Visual Studio Express and a Perl script to launch it with Mono.

Mono available in a virtual machine

Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:31:01 GMT

From Frabice's weblog: "Want to try Mono? This is really easy now thanks to a VMWare image provided on the Mono download site. It includes Mono on Suse Linux."