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Tool Roundup for Silverlight
Many organizations are evaluating Silverlight for usage within their business applications. While official tool options today are limited to Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend there are other options.
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Novell Releases Version 0.80 of Mono Debugger
A week ago Martin Baulig announced the features of the latest release of the Mono Debugger and Miguel de Icaza followed up with announcment of support in MonoDevelop 1.1.
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MonoDevelop reaches RTM
Late last week the MonoDevelop team at Novell announced the RTM of MonoDevelop 1.0.
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Mono for Robotics
Microsoft is not the only trying to get into the robotics business by porting the .NET runtime. Cogmation Robotics is using Mono in their flagship product robotFoundary. Even more surprising, they choose to run it on OS X first.
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Second Life Now Running Mono Trials
The popular virtual world Second Life is now publicly testing a Mono viewer. When in a Mono region, this viewer allows LSL scripts to be compiled against Mono. In theory, this will provide reduced lag and improved stability for Second Life users. According to Linden Labs, early results are promising.
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Changes Coming for Mono on OS X
Currently Mono offers two GUI toolkits, Windows.Forms and Gtk+. Both of these work on OS X, but they only run via an X server. Just like early Java GUI toolkits, the non-native look and feel is causing problems for developers. Miguel de Icaza has announced that Mono 1.2.6 will be shipped with an OS X native backend for both toolkits.
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Dalvik, Android's virtual machine, generates significant debate
With the release of Google's Android SDK earlier this week, there was much discussion of the APIs and the expected impact in the mobile space. However, one particular area which generated significant debate in the Java community was the Dalvik virtual machine which is the basis of the Android platform.
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Interview with Mads Kristensen of BlogEngine.NET
In the first we hope to be a series on .NET in the open source world, we interviewed Mads Kristensen of BlogEngine.NET. Mads discusses how a focus on simplicity and an avoidance of third-party dependencies differentiates his project from other ASP.NET based blog platforms.
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Mono JIT Enhancements: Trampolines and Code Sharing
Curious about how just-in-time compilers work? Two recent posts from the Mono JIT team shed light on how trampolines and code sharing work by illustrating the work they are doing in those areas.
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.NET Spotlight on Open Source: Beagle
One of the most famous Mono applications on Linux is Beagle. In this .NET Spotlight on Open Source, Infoq interviwed Joe Shaw and Pierre Ostlund on Beagle.
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Moonlight Milestone Reached: Silverlight Chess
The Moonlight project has reached the point where it can run the Silverlight Chess demo application. This represents a major milestone for the Mono team who are racing to keep up with Microsoft's Silverlight project.
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Minimal Mono Runtime Smaller than Python
Mirco Bauer, the Mono package maintainer for Debian Linux, and Miguel de Icaza discuss the minimum runtime sizes of various virtual machines, with Mono coming in first at 7 MB on disk.
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Cecil and Reflexil Make Assembly Patching Easy
Jb Evain's Cecil is a library in the Mono project that allows developers to inspect and manipulate compiled assemblies. Sébastien has complemented its capabilities with a GUI interface called Reflexil.
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Moonlight in 21 days
In preparation for ReMix07 in Paris, the Mono team filled out the bones of their implementation of Silverlight with very impressive results.
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In Case You Missed It: MonoDevelop, a C# IDE for Gnome Developers
MonoDevelop is an IDE designed specifically for Gnome developers targeting the Mono runtime. Originally started as a port of the SharpDevelope IDE, it has grown into a significant project in its own right.