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author | Miguel de Icaza <miguel@gnome.org> | 2004-01-13 06:23:26 +0300 |
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committer | Miguel de Icaza <miguel@gnome.org> | 2004-01-13 06:23:26 +0300 |
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@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ * <a href="http://bugzilla.ximian.com/buglist.cgi?product=gtk%23&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&email1=&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&email2=&emailtype2=substring&emailreporter2=1&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&short_desc=&short_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&bug_file_loc=&bug_file_loc_type=substring&keywords=&keywords_type=anywords&op_sys_details=&op_sys_details_type=substring&version_details=&version_details_type=substring&cmdtype=doit&newqueryname=&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&form_name=query">[Query]</a> <a href="http://bugzilla.ximian.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=gtk%23">[Add]</a> Gtk# - * <a href="http://bugzilla.ximian.com/buglist.cgi?product=Mono%2FClass+Libraries&component=System.Web&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&email1=&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&email2=&emailtype2=substring&emailreporter2=1&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&short_desc=&short_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&bug_file_loc=&bug_file_loc_type=substring&keywords=&keywords_type=anywords&op_sys_details=&op_sys_details_type=substring&version_details=&version_details_type=substring&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&form_name=query">[Query]</a> <a href="http://bugzilla.ximian.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Mono%2FClass%20Libraries&component=System.Web">[Add]</a>ASP.NET WebForms + * <a href="http://bugzilla.ximian.com/buglist.cgi?product=Mono%2FClass+Libraries&component=System.Web&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&email1=&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&email2=&emailtype2=substring&emailreporter2=1&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&short_desc=&short_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&bug_file_loc=&bug_file_loc_type=substring&keywords=&keywords_type=anywords&op_sys_details=&op_sys_details_type=substring&version_details=&version_details_type=substring&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&form_name=query">[Query]</a> <a href="http://bugzilla.ximian.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Mono%2FClass%20Libraries&component=System.Web">[Add]</a> ASP.NET WebForms - * <a href="http://bugzilla.ximian.com/buglist.cgi?product=Mono%2FClass+Libraries&component=System.Web.Services&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&email1=&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&email2=&emailtype2=substring&emailreporter2=1&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&short_desc=&short_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&bug_file_loc=&bug_file_loc_type=substring&keywords=&keywords_type=anywords&op_sys_details=&op_sys_details_type=substring&version_details=&version_details_type=substring&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&form_name=query">[Query]</a> <a href="http://bugzilla.ximian.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Mono%2FClass%20Libraries&component=System.Web.Services">[Add]</a>ASP.NET Web Services + * <a href="http://bugzilla.ximian.com/buglist.cgi?product=Mono%2FClass+Libraries&component=System.Web.Services&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&email1=&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&email2=&emailtype2=substring&emailreporter2=1&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&short_desc=&short_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&bug_file_loc=&bug_file_loc_type=substring&keywords=&keywords_type=anywords&op_sys_details=&op_sys_details_type=substring&version_details=&version_details_type=substring&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&form_name=query">[Query]</a> <a href="http://bugzilla.ximian.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Mono%2FClass%20Libraries&component=System.Web.Services">[Add]</a> ASP.NET Web Services * <a href="http://bugzilla.ximian.com/buglist.cgi?product=Mono%2FDebugger&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&email1=&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&email2=&emailtype2=substring&emailreporter2=1&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&short_desc=&short_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&bug_file_loc=&bug_file_loc_type=substring&keywords=&keywords_type=anywords&op_sys_details=&op_sys_details_type=substring&version_details=&version_details_type=substring&cmdtype=doit&newqueryname=&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&form_name=query">[Query]</a> <a href="http://bugzilla.ximian.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Mono%2FDebugger">[Add]</a> Debugger. diff --git a/doc/index b/doc/index index cba0d7f3dea..96983f62405 100644 --- a/doc/index +++ b/doc/index @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <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. @@ -591,984 +591,6 @@ 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. - <h2>Older News</h2> Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see the olds news. diff --git a/doc/oldnews b/doc/oldnews index d88896302fa..a24afbd651f 100644 --- a/doc/oldnews +++ b/doc/oldnews @@ -1,3 +1,981 @@ +@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. + @item Looking for volunteers We are looking for volunteers to help complete various pieces |