Mono Project News

Mono Tools for Visual Studio 1.0 has been released!

Mono Project (mono@novell.com) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:24:00 -0500

Mono Tools for Visual Studio 1.0 has officially been released.

Support for developing and debugging Mono applications from within Microsoft Visual Studio has been a feature requested from the .NET developer community since very early in the project.s history. While our own MonoDevelop continues to grow in features in adoption, we also understand that developers working in Visual Studio today are in no rush to leave behind their current IDE and favorite Visual Studio add-ins.

Mono Tools integrates several key pieces of functionality directly into Visual Studio.s menu system:

Analyze for Mono Migration - Scan open projects for compatibility with Mono while developing, and navigate directly to issues from the Error List within Visual Studio
Run on Mono on Windows - Test against Mono on Windows to isolate issues arising from differences between Mono and .NET.
Run on Mono on Linux - Deploy and run your application on Mono on Linux with minimal effort.
Debug on Mono on Linux - Remotely debug your application running on the target platform

In addition to these features that improve the day-to-day experience of developing with Mono, this release incorporates a few additional features to aid in deployment of .NET applications on Mono.

Package for Linux - Visually create a RPM installer packages for SUSE and openSUSE Linux for your .NET application
Create a SUSE Linux Appliance - Use SUSE Studio to bundle your application into a Linux appliance for simplified distribution to your users.

To see the full functionality of the add-in, check out the full tutorial of taking an ASP.NET application through each feature from Analyze to Appliance.

You can Download a free, fully-functional 30-day trial of Mono Tools for Visual Studio, as well as fully preconfigured VMware or Virtual PC images, from the Mono Tools for Visual Studio download page.

To purchase Mono Tools for Visual Studio, visit our store

MonoTouch - Mono for iPhone is now available

Mono Project (mono@novell.com) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:49:00 -0500

MonoTouch - Mono for iPhone is now available. This is a commercial product, to buy it, visit the MonoTouch Store.

Mono for OSX has been updated

Mono Project (mono@novell.com) — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:49:00 -0500

A refresh of the Mono 2.4.2.3 Framework Installer for Mac has been released. The only change in this release is a new version of GTK+ that resolves a number of known issues in MonoDevelop, including redraw bugs, control-click functionality, and Mac keybindings for standard GTK+ widgets. The GTK+ build uses a branch of GTK+ 2.17.9 maintained by Christian Hergert, sponsored by Unity.

You can find it on the downloads section.

MonoTouch Preview

Mono Project (mono@novell.com) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:49:00 -0500

We are doing a preview/beta release of MonoTouch (Mono for the iPhone) this week (August 5th/August 6th) and are looking for developers that might be interested in trying out the API, the IDE plugin and the development pipeline.

If you are interested in participating, please fill out the form.

You can browse the source code for the sample widget catalog built using the MonoTouch.UIKit .NET binding to Cocoa's UIKit.

Mono 2.4.2.3 - Update Release

Mono Project (mono@novell.com) — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:35:00 -0500

This release fixes issues with precompiled websites.

See the release notes for more details.

Mono 2.4.2.1 - Update Release

Mono Project (mono@novell.com) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:35:00 -0500

Due to an oversight on our part, Mono 2.4.2 did not actually bundle ASP.NET MVC. This mistake has been corrected. Mono 2.4.2.1 is a release that merely includes the prepackaged source for ASP.NET MVC.

Microsoft's Patent License

Mono Project (mono@novell.com) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:35:00 -0500

Today Microsoft announced that they were going to apply the Community Promise patent licensing to the ECMA C# and ECMA CLI standards.

Mono 2.4.2 has been released

Mono Project (mono@novell.com) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:34:00 -0500

Mono 2.4.2 has been released, this is a maintenance release for Mono 2.4 and contains over 150 bug fixes. It can be downloaded from our downloads page.

This version is the first version to integrate Microsoft's open source ASP.NET MVC stack.

Check the release notes for more details.

Mono Tools for Visual Studio Preview Released

Mono Project (mono@novell.com) — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:34:00 -0500

Mono Tools for Visual Studio have been released to a limited number of developers for a closed preview cycle.

This first release of the Mono tools integrates four major pieces of new functionality into Visual Studio:

Scan for Mono Compatibility (MoMA integration) - The integrated Mono Migration Analyzer (MoMA) can scan open projects for incompatibilities and guide you to directly to them, making it easy to find and work through issues as you develop.
Run on Mono on Windows - Testing against Mono on Windows can help isolate issues arising from differences between Mono and .NET.
Run on Mono on Linux - Testing against Mono on Linux helps work through issues that could be caused by differences in Windows and Linux.
Debug on Mono on Linux - Often, the best way to work through an issue will be to debug the application on the target environment. Debug on Mono on Linux brings this functionality to Visual Studio developers by enabling remote debugging of Mono applications running on Linux.

If you are interested in joining the program during the next wave of invitations, please visit the Mono Tools for Visual Studio website, and follow the "Sign Up!" link.

Novell Offers Commercial Support for Mono 2.4

Mono Project (mono@novell.com) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:34:00 -0500

Novell has released a new product based on Mono 2.4, the SUSE Linux Enterprise Mono Extension, which provides commercial support for running .NET applications on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

This includes hosting your ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX and ASP.NET MVC applications on an Apache web server allowing your .NET code to run side-by-side with other Web stack and open source technologies.

The Enterprise Mono Extension provides access to both commercial and open source databases including Microsoft's SQL server, Oracle, PostgresSQL, MySQL, Sqlite and VistaDB.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise Mono Extension is available for x86 and x86-64 platforms as well as the IBM s390x mainframe.

More details can be found on Novell's Mono product page

Telerik Announces Support for their ASP.NET controls on Mono!

Mono Project (mono@novell.com) — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:27:00 -0500

Telerik is one of the most famous provider of controls for .NET. We have been working for the past few months with Telerik to make sure that their RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX product worked out of the box with Mono:

Today Telerik announced the availability of their product officially for Mono-based customers on Linux systems. From their press release:

Telerik, the leading vendor of development tools and components for the Microsoft .NET platform announced that RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX fully supports the Mono runtime environment, an open source .NET framework sponsored by Novell, tailored for development of Linux applications. The Telerik AJAX UI components is the first major commercial user interface (UI) suite to go cross-platform and allows developers to build rich .NET applications in a Linux environment.
âThis has been a long-awaited feature, which we have been quietly working on for quite some time. Over the past few months, we have been actively testing the compatibility of our RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX offering with Mono", said Hristo Kosev, Telerik CTO. "We are extremely happy that our joint work with Novell will allow customers to build compelling high-performance ASP.NET AJAX-based applications and run them on Linux using Mono 2.4.â
The decision to work with Novell to extend the capabilities of RadControls over other platforms is in direct response to customer feedback and interest in Mono. Telerik and Novell are optimistic about the effect their partnership will have on the industry and the benefits it will bring to .NET developers.

Telerik is a major player in the control space in the .NET world and many developers turn to them for ready to use controls for their applications. Developers that were previously using Telerik products can now host their products on Linux servers.

Special thanks go to Marek Habersack in the Mono team who worked tirelessly to fix Mono's ASP.NET stack. Working with the Telerik folks was a pleasure. Telerik helped us by providing us access to their source code, their test suite and their QA team that made sure that their thousands of tests ran equally well on Mono as they did on Microsoft's .NET.

You can try the Telerik controls running on Mono at http://mono.telerik.com/.

Mono 2.4 and MonoDevelop 2.0 have been released

Mono Project (mono@novell.com) — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:27:00 -0500

Today we announced the release of both the Mono 2.4 platform and the MonoDevelop 2.0.

Mono 2.4 has been released

Mono Project (mono@novell.com) — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:27:00 -0500

Mono's 2.4 grand release has finally arrived.

See our detailed release notes covering both the 2.4 launch and the changes since Mono 2.2.

Or you can go directly and download Mono 2.4 for your platform.

Mono 2.2 has been released

Mono Project (mono@novell.com) — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:39:00 -0500

Mono's 2.2 grand release has finally arrived.

See our detailed release notes covering both the 2.2 launch and the changes since Mono 2.0.

Or you can go directly and download Mono 2.2 for your platform.

Gtk# Installers for .NET

Mono Project (mono@novell.com) — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:27:00 -0500

The Gtk# GUI toolkit version 2.12.6 is now available for .NET on Windows and can be downloaded from http://mono-project.com/Downloads.

With the new installers, it is possible to run on Windows/.NET applications created with Gtk# on Linux and MacOS X.

Moonlight 1.0 Beta 1

Mono Project (mono@novell.com) — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:39:00 -0500

We have released the first beta of Moonlight 1.0.

This release supports the Microsoft Media Pack for playing back video and audio files. These are the same video and audio decoders that Microsoft uses in Silverlight 2.0.

Check our Moonlight roadmap for details on upcoming versions.

You can try some of the sites tests that we used to test Moonlight.

SIMD support in Mono Announced

Mono Project (mono@novell.com) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:39:00 -0500

At the Microsoft PDC we demostrated for the first time the upcoming the hardware accelerated Vector types using the processor SIMD instructions in Mono (SSE1, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4). You can read more on Miguel's blog or you can check the API documentation.

This feature will be available in our upcoming Mono 2.2.

Mono 2.0.1 has been released

Mono Project (mono@novell.com) — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:50:00 -0500

We've release Mono 2.0.1 as a minor bugfix update to Mono 2.0

See our detailed release notes covering the changes since Mono 2.0.

Or you can go directly and download Mono 2.0.1 for your platform.

Mono on OSX Survey

Mono Project (mono@novell.com) — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:39:00 -0500

If you are targeting MacOS X, we would appreciate if you could fill the Mono on MacOS X survey to better understand how you would like us to improve Mono.

Mono 2.0 has been released

Mono Project (mono@novell.com) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:50:00 -0500

Mono's 2.0 grand release has finally arrived.

See our detailed release notes covering both the 2.0 launch and the changes since Mono 1.9.

Or you can go directly and download Mono 2.0 for your platform.

SecondLife Launches Mono-based servers

Mono Project (mono@novell.com) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:50:00 -0500

Jim Purbrick (Babbage) from Linden Labs has announced on the SecondLife Blog that they have started the rollout of their Mono-enabled servers.

They are using Mono as an engine that accelerates the execution of user provided scripts by translating LSL scripts into ECMA CIL bytecodes and in turn letting Mono turn that into x86 machine code.

[Read More...].

First Preview for Mono 2.0 is out

Mono Project (mono@novell.com) — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:50:00 -0500

Marc Christiensen has announced the release of our first preview for Mono 2.0. You can read our preliminary release notes for this release.

The preview release is available from our preview download directory. The source code for this release is available here.

Please report any bugs that you may find using our Bugs page, AND reply to this thread with the bug numbers so we can track them! http://www.mono-project.com/Bugs

You can see the bugs we're tracking for Mono 2.0 here: https://bugzilla.novell.com/buglist.cgi?bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.go-mono.com%2Farchive%2F2.0%2F&order=bugs.bug_status%20

The earlier you file the bugs and reply to this message, the more likely your bugs will get fixed.

Special attention is given to regressions, so if you can tell us a version of Mono where the bug worked and you tag the summary of the bug with [Regression], then it is much more likely your bug will get fixed.

Please help the Mono team to make 2.0 the best ever.

Moonlight 0.7 released

Mono Project (mono@novell.com) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:50:00 -0500

We have just released Moonlight 0.7 to the public.

Get your copy here.

This new version of Moonlight works on both Firefox 2.0 and 3.0 and sports some significant changes from 0.6:

Webkit loads the plugin (kangaroo, lewing)
The stream/downloader/request/response logic (used for downloading media) has been been almost entirely moved from the browser bridges into libmoon, with the browsers providing subclasses. (kangaroo, sde)
Finally add argument checking to all wrapped plugin objects (fejj).
Windowless mode fixes (lewing, toshok)
Plugin event handling fixes (lewing)

Engine

Many clock/animation framework fixes. We now pass both animation matrix tests, and many, *many* other bugs (and regressions) have been fixed. (mdk).
Bug fixes in the Stroke{Collection}.HitTest and Stroke{Collection}.Bounds code (toshok, sde).
Namescope merging fixes (sde, jackson)
Parser fixes, and changes paving the way for 2.0 work (jackson)
Fix mouse event bubbling behavior (toshok)

Media

Big, big strides in our media framework and the various (file, http, mms) downloaders, (fejj, rolf, kangaroo, fer)
MMS stream selection (kangaroo)

Performance

Shape caching and bounds computation reduction (spouliot)
Geometry bounds work (spouliot)
Fast path for position updates (Canvas.Left/Canvas.Top) (toshok)
Improved temporary cairo surface bounds (lewing)
Glyph rendering speedups (fejj)
Resort by ZIndex as a dirty pass (toshok)

Silverlight 2.0

work is progressing. A very simple 2.0 application successfully ran. (miguel, jackson, sde).

Forums added to Mono Website

Mono Project (mono@novell.com) — Tue, 20 May 2008 02:50:00 -0500

Web-based forums for Mono discussions have been added at http://www.go-mono.com/forums

Most active Mono community members participate in on-line discussions through our mailing lists; however, many Mono users have expressed a preference for web forums based discussions.

In order to address this demand for an official forums for Mono, while keeping the community engaged in our mailing lists, we have embedded nabble.com into our site to create a bridge between the two groups. So, you can now use whichever method you prefer participate in the community.

First Moonlight Source Code Release

Mono Project (mono@novell.com) — Wed, 14 May 2008 02:50:00 -0500

To encourage users to try out Moonlight, we are doing a source-code only release of Moonlight for developers to try out Moonlight.

To try out Moonlight, you have two options:

Media codecs: you must do your own build from source code.
No-media codecs: we provide one-click addins for Firefox that will install with no effort.

Firefox addins are available from http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight.

Source code for Moonlight is available from here. To compile Moonlight from source code follow these instructions.

Mono 1.9.1 has been released

Mono Project (mono@novell.com) — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:50:00 -0500

We have done a minor release of Mono 1.9, Mono 1.9.1 that contains various bug fixes. Please see the release notes for details.

Mono 1.9.1 is available from our downloads page.

Packaged .NET Software for Linux

Mono Project (mono@novell.com) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:50:00 -0500

As part of the QA process for Mono, our fabulous QA team has been packaging various popular open source .NET applications, Gnome, Gtk#, ASP.NET, libraries and Windows.Forms in an easy-to-install fashion for various Linux distributions.

We are using the OpenSUSE Build Service to make the software available for various Linux distributions.

Our repository is available here , for instructions on how to add the repository see the user manual.

Mono C# Compiler Under MIT X11 License

Mono Project (mono@novell.com) — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:50:00 -0500

Starting with version 2.0 of Mono, the Mono C# compiler source code will also be available under the MIT X11 license.

We are changing the license to allow parts of the compiler to be reused as part of MonoDevelop, our LINQ class libraries and to embed it in ASP.NET.

In MonoDevelop: This will allow the compiler to be used to improve code-completion to support C# 3.0 as well as improving the heuristics when offering completions. This will reuse the front end and parts of the backend.

Compiler hosting inside ASP.NET: This will embed the whole compiler into the ASP.NET process, eliminating about one second for each compilation of a piece of code. In the past, for each request for an uncompiled resource, we would have to call the compiler, wait for its output and then load the output. This typically shaves between 0.7 to 1 second on those scenarios, ideal to improve the developer experience.

LINQ Class Libraries: This will allow us to reuse parts of the compiler in our System.Core implementation for LINQ for the current 3.5 generation and upcoming generations. Many corner cases are handled by the compiler, and we will now be able to lift those pieces. This will mostly use the backend of the compiler.

Mono 1.9 Released

Mono Project (mono@novell.com) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:50:00 -0500

Slightly delayed news, a few weeks ago we released our best Mono release so far: Mono 1.9, the last release before Mono reaches its 2.0 level.

Mono 1.9 is considered a stable release and should be considered the new stable version to be shipped. It should replace older versions of Mono 1.2

You can obtain this from the downloads page.

Porting Tutorials: ASP.NET and Windows.Forms

Mono Project (mono@novell.com) — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:50:00 -0500

These tutorials are quite popular to help developers that have a Windows.Forms or ASP.NET application port it to Unix. They walk you through the process of bringing your software to Linux, MacOS X or Solaris:

It is also useful to look at the general porting guidelines.