Mono

Ever wondered what Mono's roadmap is, or how you could easily describe Mono's current status as to your friends and significant others? You can point them to our roadmap page and our compatibility pages.

Over the past few weeks, the final details of the program for the Monospace Conference have been announced, and now the event is just less than two weeks away. Some key details you may have missed: The Monspace conference features 2 days of ... [More] workshops and 2 days of Open Space sessions. The full conference agenda has been posted, and now includes a full day of MonoTouch training (Mono for the iPhone). The two-day open space sessions will be kicked off on Thursday with an Open Source Panel featuring Miguel de Icaza (Mono Project Founder), Sam Ramji (CodePlex Foundation), Ayende Rahien (NHibernate and Castle Contributor), and Glenn Block (Managed Extensibility Framework), and moderated by Rod Paddock, Editor of CoDe Magazine. The Monospace conference will be held in Austin, TX on Tuesday, October 27 through Friday, October 30. To register for the event, visit the Monospace Conference Registration Page. Check the program for more information. Registered Monospace attendees will receive a $150 discount on MonoTouch, if they purchase in the month of October. [Less]

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

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 ... [More] 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. [Less]

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 ... [More] 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. [Less]

This release fixes issues with precompiled websites. See the release notes for more details.

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

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.

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 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 ... [More] 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. [Less]