[Mono-list] Two patches for go-mono.net
Aaron Weber
aaron@ximian.com
Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:33:48 -0500
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Hello,
What do you think? I can't get the makefiles sorted so I can't push, and
I'm hesitant even to commit...
The 1st diff adjusts the position of the top paragraph to align top,
rather than center and delete a bunch of old news from the index page.
(index-diff.diff) The second patch adds the removed old news to the
oldnews page.
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<table>
<tr>
- <td>
+ <td valign="top">
<a href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> announced the
launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an open source
implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
@@ -591,986 +591,8 @@
build system, we will be able to expose it (as part of the
NET_1_1 build).
-@item Jul 9th, 2003: ASP.NET web services, coverage tools.
-
- Web Services keep advancing: now we also support server-side
- authoring of Web Services as well as web service clients
- (which shipped in Mono 0.25). This works using our ASP.NET
- runtime, so it works with either XSP or the Apache module. The
- new Web Services work from Lluis added the missing bits:
- <ul>
- <li> .asmx files.
- <li> Method calls with complex parameters (whatever XmlSerializer can currently serialize, which is a quite a lot).
- <li> ref and out parameters.
- <li> Soap headers (In, Out and InOut).
- <li> Soap extensions, both global (configured in web.config) and particular to methods (configured using attributes).
- </ul>
-
- For more details, see Lluis <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001449.html">post</a>
-
- GUI-wise: Work on <a href="http://xr.xwin.org">Xr</a> 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's Coverage analysis tool has been checked into CVS.
- With this tool it is now possible to find which class library
- code paths are missing regression tests. The module is
- `monocov'. Details are <a
- href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz/">here</a>. A fresh Gtk#
- version is available now.
-
- Jean's remoting-based Soap implenentation is also maturing.
-
-@item Jun 26th: Mono 0.25 has been released.
-
- We have released Mono 0.25. A list of the new features is
- available <a href="archive/mono-0.25.html">here</a>.
-
- Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
- available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
-
-@item Jun 17th, 2003: Web Services client; Profiling hooks
-
- Lluis and Gonzalo have checked into CVS the support for web
- services in the Mono runtime. This allows Mono to work as a
- web services client. We still require a WSDL compiler to
- compile the initial stub, but Erik has the beginning of a WSDL
- compiler ready and Atsushi has continued work on his
- experimental Xml Schema to C# class generator.
-
- As part of this, the Mono Http runtime has been rewritten to
- increase reliability, scalability and conformance to the
- specs. Also our io-layer has been extended to not have
- arbitrary limits. This was done as part of our collaboration
- with SourceGear.
-
- Paolo has commited the new pluggable profiling API to the Mono
- runtime: now the profiler is built as a module, and a new code
- coverage analysis has been checked in (and Zoltan already
- added improvements to it).
-
- Mark's Mozilla bindings continue to improve, and we will shortly
- migrate the Mono documentation browser to use Mozilla, to take
- advantage of the tutorial's use of CSS.
-
- Jackson's work on the IL assembler and Ben on running
- regression tests have provided us with a very needed tool in
- the Mono toolkit. One of the last missing pieces on the SDK.
-
- On the crypto world, we got Sebastien's certificate viewer
- checked into CVS and the crypto code keeps advancing by leaps
- and bounds.
-
- Alexandre and Aleksey Work continues on Windows.Forms on top
- of Wine and Gtk# (the former for full compatibility, the later
- for ease-of-authoring).
-
- Cesar checked in the beginning of the semantic analysis code
- for his JScript compiler, and will be working on it full time.
-
-@item Jun 11th, 2003: SourceGear and Ximian announce partnership
-
- Ximian, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and server
- solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption, today announced
- that SourceGear Corporation will use Mono\x{2122} Project
- technology to offer cross-platform versions of its
- products. In addition, the companies have entered into a
- development partnership under which Ximian will provide
- custom Mono development to enable delivery of SourceGear
- products later this year. As a result, SourceGear will offer
- both UNIX and Linux clients for its SourceGear Vault source
- code management tool, enabling broader use of its solutions in
- mixed-platform development organizations.
-
- <a href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=sourcegear">Read more...</a>
-
- Some technical details are available <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-June/014334.html">here</a>.
-
-@item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches.
-
- OpenLink <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-winforms-list/2003-May/000284.html">announced</a>
- 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 <a
- href="http://www.openlinksw.com/mono/">here</a>.
-
- Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the <a
- href="download.html">download page</a>.
-
-@item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono
-
- Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the <a
- href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse IDE</a> running on top
- of Mono+<a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a>.
-
- A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found <a
- href="images/ikvm-screenshot.png">here</a>
-
-@item 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 <a
- href="archive/mono-0.24.html">here</a>.
-
- Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
- available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
- We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.
-
-@item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
-
- <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released
- their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso
- 3.0</a> 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 <a
- href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a>
- and a demo is available <a
- href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>.
-
- OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
- an ongoing basis.
-
- Jon Udell wrote a small <a
- href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a>
-
-@item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.
-
- Atsushi has created a <a
- href="http://www24.brinkster.com/ginga/RelaxngValidatingReader/">RelaxNG</a>
- validating XML reader.
-
- There is activity on the <a
- href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono forums</a> and the <a
- href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/">Gtk# Wiki</a>
-
-@item 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 <a
- href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a>
-
- We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a>
- 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.
-
-@item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
-
- The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
- details are <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a>
-
- Zoltan has commited his <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed
- allocation</a> patches to CVS as well.
-
-@item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
-
- Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
- <a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool. Screenshots are <a
- href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
- and <a
- href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>
-
- Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
- module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>
-
- The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>. Screenshots are
- <a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>.
-
-@item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
-
- <a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
- openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
-
-@item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
-
- <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue">
- <tr>
- <td valign="top">
- <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
- What do you think about Mono?
-
- Is your company involved with the development and
- deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an
- important part of your company's business application
- strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
- project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
- and the use of Linux in business critical
- applications?
-
- If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
- would like to talk with you. If interested, please
- email us at <a
- href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
- </div>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
-@item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
-
- Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
- that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It
- is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
- Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
-
-@item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
-
- A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
- notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. This is mostly a
- bug fix release. No new features.
-
-@item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
-
- Mono 0.22 has been released. See the <a
- href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix
- release.
-
- A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
- has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
-
- Martin also announced a <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
- release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
-
-@item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
-
- The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
- continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
- contributors that make <b>mono::</b> 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 <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual
- machine.
-
-@item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
-
- A new mailing list for <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
- Development</a> has been created.
-
-@item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
-
- Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
- The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
-
- Windows binary is available <a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">here</a>
-
-@item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
-
- Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
- href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
- 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 <a
- href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
-
- Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
- tests</a>. 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.
-
-@item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
-
- Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the <a
- href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
- the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
- There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
- and performance improvements.
-
- Gtk# 0.8 has been <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
-
- <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
- binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a
- href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
-
-@item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
-
- With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
- looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
- of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
-
- 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 <a
- href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a
- href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
- for further discussion.
-
-@item 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 <a
- href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available
- on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
- straight binding to the C API.
-
- Marco has <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
- an update</a> 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)
-
-@item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
-
- Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
- as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
- Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
- advantage of Unix facilities.
-
- A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
-
- Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
- If you want to contribute please read <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
- message</a>
-
- 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).
-
-@item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
-
- <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
- Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
- announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
-
-@item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
-
- A <a
- href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
- release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
- Release <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
-
-@item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
-
- Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
- World Expo. A description is <a
- href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
-
- Open Link has a <a
- href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
- release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
- shipping that uses Mono.
-
-@item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
-
- Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
- href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
- the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
- There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
- and performance improvements.
-
- We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
- screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
- there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
- progress on the documentation browser.
-
- <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
-
-@item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
-
- After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
- released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
- debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
- unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
- applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
- platforms.
-
- Details of the release are available in <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
-
- The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
- The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
- by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
- applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
- flag to gcc).
-
-@item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
-
- Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
-
- MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
- distribution, and MCS works with it.
-
- Zoltan has managed to get <a
- href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
- for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
- the Mono runtime.
-
-@item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
-
- Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
- href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
- the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
-
-@item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
-
- A new issue of the <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
- Weekly News</a> has been published.
-
- Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
- that Sebastien has put together.
-
-@item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
-
- Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
- the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
- improved this to use implicit names as well.
-
- Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
- debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
- per-thread basis now.
-
- Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
- Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
- has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
- are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
- mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
-
- Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
- statements on the grammar.
-
- Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
- his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
-
-@item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
-
- <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
- href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
- their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
- to run on Mono.
-
- <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
- href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
- availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
-
- Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
- href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
- href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
- of their product, also using Mono.
-
-@item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
-
- Mike Kestner <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
- Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
- bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
- href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
-
- Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
- and its available from our <a
- href="download.html">download</a> page.
-
- Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
-
-@item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
-
- Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
- href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
- list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
-
- Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
- System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
- which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
- href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
- asp.net has been released as well.
-
- This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
-
- This release also includes a new exception handling system
- that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
- our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
-
-@item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
-
- Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
- classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
- invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
- compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
-
- Screenshots: <a
- href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
- Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
- href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
-
- Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
- repository as well.
-
-@item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
-
- <a
- href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
- Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
- Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
- href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
-
- <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
- href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
- href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
- announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
- href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
- server on Unix using Mono.
-
- Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
- tutorial</a> 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 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
-
- Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
- 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 <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
- mailing list</a>
-
- Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
- href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
- layer</a> and an <a
- href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
- server</a> 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.
-
-@item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
-
- Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
- as well as RSA <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
- 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 <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
- It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
-
- Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
- Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
-
- Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
- href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
- here</a>.
-
- Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
- see Windows screenshots for it <a
- href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
- href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
-
- Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
- <ul>
- <li><a
- href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
- Mono Keynote presentation</a>
-
- <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
- The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
- href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
-
- <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
-
- <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
- Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
- </ul>
-
- A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
- are available <a
- href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
- in Open Office file format.
-
-@item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
-
- Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
- packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
-
- Tim Coleman posted an <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
- 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.
-
-@item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
-
- Tim's SqlClient is <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
- capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
- using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
- running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
- Windows is shown <a
- href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
-
- 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.
-
-@item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
-
- Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
- into CVS.
-
- The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
- System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
- interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
- ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
- easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
- now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
-
- 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 <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
- list</a> 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.
-
-@item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
-
- Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
- DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
- still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
- are not supported by the .NET framework.
-
- Last week we created a new <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
- list</a> 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 <a
- href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
- unique</a> 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 (<a
- href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
- simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
- configuration to backend keys, following the <a
- href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
- Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
-
- 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 (<a
- href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
- shot</a>) 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.
-
-@item 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 <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
- Brian posted <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
- about the ODBC.NET</a> 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 <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
- Documentation Tools</a>.
-
-@item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
-
- Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
- been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
- seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
- more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
-
- Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
- low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
- daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
- regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
- into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
- complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
- able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
- want. This also includes support for the system-wide
- configuration file `machine.config'.
-
- Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
- it looks <a
- href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
- and <a
- href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
- Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
- working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
- the screenshot).
-
- <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> 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 <a
- href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
-
- 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.
-
-@item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
-
- Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
- href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
- href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
-
- 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).
-
-@item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
-
- Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
- href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
- Survey</a>
-
-@item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
-
- The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
- continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
- contributors that made <b>mono::</b> 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.
-
-
-@item 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 <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
- inline</a>). 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 <a
- href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
- 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.
-
-@item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
-
- The <a
- href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
- ONE 2002</a> 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 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> 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.
-
-@item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
-
- <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
- 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.
-
-@item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
-
- Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
- released a fresh version of <a
- href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
-
-@item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
-
- Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
- href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
- href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
-
-@item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
-
- Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
- the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
- cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
- merger on our side.
-
- His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
- that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
- circumstances.
-
-@item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
-
- <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
-
- Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
- on par with the PPC port.
-
- Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
- to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
- code for the remoting infrastructure.
-
- More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
- providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
- their first query.
-
-@item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
-
- Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
- compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
- speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
- 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
-
- 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 <a
- href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
-
- 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.
-
-@item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
-
- The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
- to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
- 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.
-
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- Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see the olds news.
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+@item Jul 9th, 2003: ASP.NET web services, coverage tools.
+
+ Web Services keep advancing: now we also support server-side
+ authoring of Web Services as well as web service clients
+ (which shipped in Mono 0.25). This works using our ASP.NET
+ runtime, so it works with either XSP or the Apache module. The
+ new Web Services work from Lluis added the missing bits:
+ <ul>
+ <li> .asmx files.
+ <li> Method calls with complex parameters (whatever XmlSerializer can currently serialize, which is a quite a lot).
+ <li> ref and out parameters.
+ <li> Soap headers (In, Out and InOut).
+ <li> Soap extensions, both global (configured in web.config) and particular to methods (configured using attributes).
+ </ul>
+
+ For more details, see Lluis <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001449.html">post</a>
+
+ GUI-wise: Work on <a href="http://xr.xwin.org">Xr</a> 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's Coverage analysis tool has been checked into CVS.
+ With this tool it is now possible to find which class library
+ code paths are missing regression tests. The module is
+ `monocov'. Details are <a
+ href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz/">here</a>. A fresh Gtk#
+ version is available now.
+
+ Jean's remoting-based Soap implenentation is also maturing.
+
+@item Jun 26th: Mono 0.25 has been released.
+
+ We have released Mono 0.25. A list of the new features is
+ available <a href="archive/mono-0.25.html">here</a>.
+
+ Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
+ available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
+
+@item Jun 17th, 2003: Web Services client; Profiling hooks
+
+ Lluis and Gonzalo have checked into CVS the support for web
+ services in the Mono runtime. This allows Mono to work as a
+ web services client. We still require a WSDL compiler to
+ compile the initial stub, but Erik has the beginning of a WSDL
+ compiler ready and Atsushi has continued work on his
+ experimental Xml Schema to C# class generator.
+
+ As part of this, the Mono Http runtime has been rewritten to
+ increase reliability, scalability and conformance to the
+ specs. Also our io-layer has been extended to not have
+ arbitrary limits. This was done as part of our collaboration
+ with SourceGear.
+
+ Paolo has commited the new pluggable profiling API to the Mono
+ runtime: now the profiler is built as a module, and a new code
+ coverage analysis has been checked in (and Zoltan already
+ added improvements to it).
+
+ Mark's Mozilla bindings continue to improve, and we will shortly
+ migrate the Mono documentation browser to use Mozilla, to take
+ advantage of the tutorial's use of CSS.
+
+ Jackson's work on the IL assembler and Ben on running
+ regression tests have provided us with a very needed tool in
+ the Mono toolkit. One of the last missing pieces on the SDK.
+
+ On the crypto world, we got Sebastien's certificate viewer
+ checked into CVS and the crypto code keeps advancing by leaps
+ and bounds.
+
+ Alexandre and Aleksey Work continues on Windows.Forms on top
+ of Wine and Gtk# (the former for full compatibility, the later
+ for ease-of-authoring).
+
+ Cesar checked in the beginning of the semantic analysis code
+ for his JScript compiler, and will be working on it full time.
+
+@item Jun 11th, 2003: SourceGear and Ximian announce partnership
+
+ Ximian, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and server
+ solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption, today announced
+ that SourceGear Corporation will use Mono\x{2122} Project
+ technology to offer cross-platform versions of its
+ products. In addition, the companies have entered into a
+ development partnership under which Ximian will provide
+ custom Mono development to enable delivery of SourceGear
+ products later this year. As a result, SourceGear will offer
+ both UNIX and Linux clients for its SourceGear Vault source
+ code management tool, enabling broader use of its solutions in
+ mixed-platform development organizations.
+
+ <a href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=sourcegear">Read more...</a>
+
+ Some technical details are available <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-June/014334.html">here</a>.
+
+@item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches.
+
+ OpenLink <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-winforms-list/2003-May/000284.html">announced</a>
+ 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 <a
+ href="http://www.openlinksw.com/mono/">here</a>.
+
+ Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the <a
+ href="download.html">download page</a>.
+
+@item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono
+
+ Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the <a
+ href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse IDE</a> running on top
+ of Mono+<a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a>.
+
+ A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found <a
+ href="images/ikvm-screenshot.png">here</a>
+
+@item 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 <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.24.html">here</a>.
+
+ Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
+ available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
+ We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.
+
+@item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
+
+ <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released
+ their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso
+ 3.0</a> 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 <a
+ href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a>
+ and a demo is available <a
+ href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>.
+
+ OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
+ an ongoing basis.
+
+ Jon Udell wrote a small <a
+ href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a>
+
+@item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.
+
+ Atsushi has created a <a
+ href="http://www24.brinkster.com/ginga/RelaxngValidatingReader/">RelaxNG</a>
+ validating XML reader.
+
+ There is activity on the <a
+ href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono forums</a> and the <a
+ href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/">Gtk# Wiki</a>
+
+@item 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 <a
+ href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a>
+
+ We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a>
+ 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.
+
+@item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
+
+ The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
+ details are <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a>
+
+ Zoltan has commited his <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed
+ allocation</a> patches to CVS as well.
+
+@item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
+
+ Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
+ <a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool. Screenshots are <a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
+ and <a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>
+
+ Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
+ module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>
+
+ The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>. Screenshots are
+ <a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>.
+
+@item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
+
+ <a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
+ openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
+
+@item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
+
+ <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue">
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top">
+ <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
+ What do you think about Mono?
+
+ Is your company involved with the development and
+ deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an
+ important part of your company's business application
+ strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
+ project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
+ and the use of Linux in business critical
+ applications?
+
+ If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
+ would like to talk with you. If interested, please
+ email us at <a
+ href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
+ </div>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+@item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
+
+ Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
+ that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It
+ is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
+ Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
+
+@item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
+
+ A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
+ notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. This is mostly a
+ bug fix release. No new features.
+
+@item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
+
+ Mono 0.22 has been released. See the <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix
+ release.
+
+ A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
+ has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
+
+ Martin also announced a <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
+ release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
+
+@item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
+
+ The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
+ continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
+ contributors that make <b>mono::</b> 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 <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual
+ machine.
+
+@item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
+
+ A new mailing list for <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
+ Development</a> has been created.
+
+@item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
+
+ Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
+ The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
+
+ Windows binary is available <a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">here</a>
+
+@item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
+
+ Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
+ 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 <a
+ href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
+
+ Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
+ tests</a>. 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.
+
+@item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
+
+ Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
+ the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
+ There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
+ and performance improvements.
+
+ Gtk# 0.8 has been <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
+
+ <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
+ binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a
+ href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
+
+@item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
+
+ With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
+ looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
+ of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
+
+ 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 <a
+ href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a
+ href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
+ for further discussion.
+
+@item 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 <a
+ href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available
+ on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
+ straight binding to the C API.
+
+ Marco has <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
+ an update</a> 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)
+
+@item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
+
+ Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
+ as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
+ Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
+ advantage of Unix facilities.
+
+ A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
+
+ Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
+ If you want to contribute please read <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
+ message</a>
+
+ 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).
+
+@item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
+
+ <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
+ Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
+ announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
+
+@item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
+
+ A <a
+ href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
+ release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
+ Release <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
+
+@item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
+
+ Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
+ World Expo. A description is <a
+ href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
+
+ Open Link has a <a
+ href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
+ release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
+ shipping that uses Mono.
+
+@item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
+
+ Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
+ the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
+ There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
+ and performance improvements.
+
+ We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
+ screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
+ there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
+ progress on the documentation browser.
+
+ <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
+
+@item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
+
+ After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
+ released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
+ debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
+ unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
+ applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
+ platforms.
+
+ Details of the release are available in <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
+
+ The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
+ The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
+ by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
+ applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
+ flag to gcc).
+
+@item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
+
+ Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
+
+ MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
+ distribution, and MCS works with it.
+
+ Zoltan has managed to get <a
+ href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
+ for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
+ the Mono runtime.
+
+@item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
+
+ Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
+ the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
+
+@item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
+
+ A new issue of the <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
+ Weekly News</a> has been published.
+
+ Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
+ that Sebastien has put together.
+
+@item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
+
+ Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
+ the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
+ improved this to use implicit names as well.
+
+ Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
+ debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
+ per-thread basis now.
+
+ Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
+ Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
+ has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
+ are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
+ mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
+
+ Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
+ statements on the grammar.
+
+ Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
+ his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
+
+@item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
+
+ <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
+ href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
+ their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
+ to run on Mono.
+
+ <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
+ href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
+ availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
+
+ Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
+ href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
+ href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
+ of their product, also using Mono.
+
+@item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
+
+ Mike Kestner <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
+ Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
+ bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
+
+ Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
+ and its available from our <a
+ href="download.html">download</a> page.
+
+ Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
+
+@item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
+
+ Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
+ list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
+
+ Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
+ System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
+ which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
+ href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
+ asp.net has been released as well.
+
+ This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
+
+ This release also includes a new exception handling system
+ that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
+ our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
+
+@item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
+
+ Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
+ classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
+ invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
+ compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
+
+ Screenshots: <a
+ href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
+ Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
+ href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
+
+ Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
+ repository as well.
+
+@item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
+
+ <a
+ href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
+ Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
+ Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
+ href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
+
+ <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
+ href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
+ href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
+ announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
+ href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
+ server on Unix using Mono.
+
+ Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
+ tutorial</a> 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 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
+
+ Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
+ 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 <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
+ mailing list</a>
+
+ Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
+ href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
+ layer</a> and an <a
+ href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
+ server</a> 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.
+
+@item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
+
+ Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
+ as well as RSA <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
+ 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 <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
+ It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
+
+ Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
+ Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
+
+ Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
+ href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
+ here</a>.
+
+ Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
+ see Windows screenshots for it <a
+ href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
+ href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
+
+ Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
+ <ul>
+ <li><a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
+ Mono Keynote presentation</a>
+
+ <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
+ The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
+
+ <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
+
+ <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
+ Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
+ </ul>
+
+ A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
+ are available <a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
+ in Open Office file format.
+
+@item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
+
+ Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
+ packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
+
+ Tim Coleman posted an <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
+ 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.
+
+@item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
+
+ Tim's SqlClient is <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
+ capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
+ using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
+ running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
+ Windows is shown <a
+ href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
+
+ 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.
+
+@item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
+
+ Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
+ into CVS.
+
+ The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
+ System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
+ interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
+ ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
+ easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
+ now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
+
+ 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 <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
+ list</a> 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.
+
+@item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
+
+ Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
+ DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
+ still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
+ are not supported by the .NET framework.
+
+ Last week we created a new <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
+ list</a> 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 <a
+ href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
+ unique</a> 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 (<a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
+ simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
+ configuration to backend keys, following the <a
+ href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
+ Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
+
+ 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 (<a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
+ shot</a>) 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.
+
+@item 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 <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
+ Brian posted <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
+ about the ODBC.NET</a> 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 <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
+ Documentation Tools</a>.
+
+@item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
+
+ Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
+ been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
+ seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
+ more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
+
+ Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
+ low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
+ daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
+ regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
+ into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
+ complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
+ able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
+ want. This also includes support for the system-wide
+ configuration file `machine.config'.
+
+ Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
+ it looks <a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
+ and <a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
+ Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
+ working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
+ the screenshot).
+
+ <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> 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 <a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
+
+ 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.
+
+@item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
+
+ Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
+ href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
+
+ 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).
+
+@item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
+
+ Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
+ Survey</a>
+
+@item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
+
+ The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
+ continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
+ contributors that made <b>mono::</b> 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.
+
+
+@item 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 <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
+ inline</a>). 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 <a
+ href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
+ 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.
+
+@item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
+
+ The <a
+ href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
+ ONE 2002</a> 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 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> 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.
+
+@item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
+
+ <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
+ 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.
+
+@item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
+
+ Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
+ released a fresh version of <a
+ href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
+
+@item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
+
+ Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
+ href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
+
+@item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
+
+ Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
+ the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
+ cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
+ merger on our side.
+
+ His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
+ that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
+ circumstances.
+
+@item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
+
+ <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
+
+ Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
+ on par with the PPC port.
+
+ Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
+ to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
+ code for the remoting infrastructure.
+
+ More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
+ providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
+ their first query.
+
+@item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
+
+ Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
+ compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
+ speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
+ 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
+
+ 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 <a
+ href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
+
+ 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.
+
+@item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
+
+ The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
+ to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
+ a successful free software project.
+
+ The first 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.
+
+
@item Looking for volunteers
We are looking for volunteers to help complete various pieces
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