Medsphere has open sourced their OpenVista software. They have launched a site for their open source efforts.

The medical community can now rejoice!

OpenVista is written in C# using Gtk# and runs on Linux and Windows. It is a great sample of a commercial application that started on Linux with C# and Gtk# and was later ported to Windows.

Screenshots are available here.

Release Mono 1.2.3 contains the Visual Basic Compiler and Visual Basic runtimes for Mono.

We its availability this week.

We have issued a bug fix release for Mono 1.2.3 that contains only critical fixes to bugs that people have reported for Mono 1.2.3.

Details are available here

Mono 1.2.3 has been released, some highlights:

Thanks to everyone using Moma and submitting their reports, we were able to prioritize the work needed to get applications running. The top used 1,933 APIs have been implemented in this release as well as many bugs fixed and performance increased.

New Moma definition files. If you are using Moma to evaluate porting your software, running it again will load the new API definitions.

Mono debuts Rolf Bjarne's Visual Basic 8.0 compiler written completely in Visual Basic 8. We are also shipping Seo Sanghyeon's IronPython Community Edition.

Some highlights: ASP.NET 2.0 is almost complete (WebParts are still missing), a new System.Media implementation is included, SOAP 1.2 is now supported, HttpListener does TLS/SSL, 2.0 System.Net.Sockets is available, many Windows.Forms API fixes and improvements, improved startup time, more ports and much ADO.NET 2.0 work.

Please read the release notes for all the juicy details.

The software is available from http://www.mono-project.com/Downloads