Mono Winforms Became Feature Complete

This news is a bit too late, but I think it better than nothing at all! Jonathan Pobst has annouced in his blog that Mono Winforms now is API complete. This is what Jonathan said about that:
“we hit a very important milestone in our support for Winforms. We are API complete, which means that our public API is exactly the same as .Net’s (all 12,776 methods)”

Beside that Atsushi Enomoto has annouced that the next release of Mono will include XIM support on Windows Forms. Look at what he said about this:
“So if you are living in multi byte land, try the next release or daily build version of mono and feel happy”
Hmm, I think it really a good news for one of my friend.

Congratulations for Mono team, especially for Mono Winforms team!

Mono 2.0 C# Compiler Will Also Available Under MIT License

Mono C# compiler starting in Mono 2.0 will also available under MIT X11 license. Currently Mono C# compiler available under GNU General Public License (GPL).

The following is explanation about this (cited from www.mono-project.com):

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 team has annouced the release of Mono version 1.9! This version is stable release, update for Mono version 1.2.x, and last release before Mono 2.0 version.

Mono version 1.9 release notes can be viewed here. Go here for download this version. Mono 1.9 available for Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Linux (Open SUSE, SLES/SLED, and other Linux distributions).

The following list is highlights for Mono version 1.9:

• C# compiler of this version now use C# 3.0 mode (wow…now we can try C# 3.0 using Mono!).
• Support for Silverlight (very cool…!!!).
• Core LINQ update (LINQ to objects).
• Major improvements and bugs fixed in Windows.Forms.
• Visual Basic improvements.
• And many more.

I would like to say special thanks to all of Mono contributors!