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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.
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Paint.NET for Mono Released to Public
Paint.NET serves as both a good open source graphics editor and a test bed for new .NET functionality like the CLR add-in model. It has also been a highly coveted prize by the Mono team. On May 15, Miguel de Icaza announced that the port of Paint.NET 3.0 is functional.
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Dynamic Language Runtime Announced
Microsoft has announced that they are building an extension to the Common Language Runtime called the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR). This extension is being designed to enable interoperability between dynamic languages in the same manner that the CLR enabled interoperability between statically typed languages.
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The First VB 8 Compiler Written in VB
Rolf Kvinge has released a mostly functional VB 8 compiler written as part of the Mono project. Unlike Microsoft's VB compiler, which is actually written C++, this compiler was written in VB.
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In Case You Missed It: A .NET OpenID Library
For those of you looking at using OpenID, there is a .NET compatible library available. The Library was written in Boo, a .NET language inspired by Python. It also leverages a library from the Mono project.
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BitSharp: A BitTorrent Client Library for C#/Mono
In what hopes to be a new tend, an interesting new library for .NET developers was developed with Mono as its main audience. In conjunction with Google's Summer of Code, Alan McGovern has created a set of BitTorrent client libraries using C# and Mono he collectively calls BitSharp.
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Mono-based MP3 Wins CES Best of Show
SanDisk's Sansa Connect MP3 player won the Best of Show award for MP3 Players at this years Consume Electronics Show. The device runs the Linux operating system and the application stack is all built on Mono.
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Linden Labs Help Mono Fix Leaks
The Second Life developers at Linden Labs, working in conjunction with the Mono team, have been able to fix several memory leaks in Mono, significantly improving the runtime performance and stability of the platform.
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VB 8 Compiling on Mono
Rolf Bjarne's VB 8 compiler is now self-hosting on Mono. This represents a major milestone for both the Mono team and the VB language.
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Mono Committed to Supporting C# 3.0
Miguel de Icaza of Novel's Mono team has announced that Mono will support C# 3.0. However, before that occurs a lot of C# 2.0 bugs have to be fixed.