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Manos de Mono: A new web framework

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:29:25 GMT

"Manos is a a lightweight web application framework that runs on Mono. The goal of Manos is to simplify the entire web application development process. It should be easy to prototype, design, develop, test, debug and deploy Manos applications. The focus isn't just on getting you up and running quickly, the focus is on the entire process of creating, managing and updating a web application."

pleased precariously » minvoke - the p/invoke tool for linux

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:17:21 GMT

this tool helps .net windows developers to map their native p/invoke calls to windows DLLs into linux ones.

Using MoMA to Port from .Net to Mono

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:59:51 GMT

Describes how you can use MoMA to test your .Net application's readiness to run on Mono.

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?

.Net Frameworks - how many distros are there?

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:22:48 GMT

We got an email request from a potential user asking if VistaDB could run on Windows Server Core. I basically responded that if you can install .Net 2 then we should work. Well, that is where it gets interesting. A quick search through MSDN shows that you cannot install .Net 2 on Server Core. But then I found that you can get a customized hyrid ripped apart version of .Net 2 - somtimes...

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

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:16:12 GMT

The goal was to get some Mono project templates working with Mono assemblies and the Mono compiler in Visual Studio. The trick was to do it in a way that would be able to survive upgrades of Mono installations.

Moonlight 1.0 Release

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:16:03 GMT

Now Linux lovers can enjoy Silverlight streaming media with Moonlight 1.0. Read what Scott Guthrie tells us about this open source implementation of Silverlight.

Moonlight 1.0 Release - Open Source Silverlight 1.0 Implementation on

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:15:10 GMT

Scott Hanselman talks about Moonlight 1.0.

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

An Impressive Interview

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:41:35 GMT

An impressive interview with Miguel de Icaza

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.

LINQ Expression Trees on the Compact Framework

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:53:56 GMT

A week ago, I was writing about the ability to use Mono's System.Core to run C# 3 and LINQ applications on .net 2. A few months ago, I was writing about the new LINQ provider that friends at db4o released. This LINQ provider uses LINQ expression trees to optimize LINQ queries, turning them into db4o's native query language. Today I'm going to write about a cute new hack from our friends at db4o. If the 3.5 version of the Compact Framework comes with a System.Core, and a LINQ to objects implementation, it doesn't contain the namespace System.Linq.Expressions, which is used by all optimized LINQ providers. What those fine folks did, was simply to take Mono's implementation of this namespace. There was one issue with that approach. Expression Trees can be compiled at runtime, and that uses System.Reflection.Emit, that the Compact Framework doesn't have. A nice thing is that folks at Mainsoft contributed to Mono's System.Core an expression interpreter, which allows you to use the full LINQ expression trees without using System.Reflection.Emit. They sent me the patches they have for the expression interp

Standalone Silverlight Applications (Moonlight)

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:16:03 GMT

"Last year we created a framework to run Silverlight applications as native applications. At the time we called those applications moonlight desklets. The desklets are Silverlight applications that run in standalone mode, with full access to the entire Mono API stack (as opposed to be limited to the .NET subset for the web) and that can optionally render without frames."

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.