1. Cross-Platform .NET: Mono and MySQL
Joseph Hill
Product Manager for Mono, Novell
Joe Audette
Founder, Source Tree Solutions, LLC

3. Multi-platform, Multi-language
x86 C#
Visual Basic
SPARC
Boo
Java (IKVM)
Common
Intermediate
Language
Code Generation:
Just-In-Time
or Ahead-of-Time
StrongARM F#
JavaScript
Interesting thing about Mono/.NET
CIL (Common Intermediate Language): the "Lingua Franca" for computer languages. Allows you to write a front-end compiler (C#, Java, etc.) and instead of generating native machine code, you generate code for the intermediate language. So you always map to a single language, then the single language gets mapped to the target OS.
We take the IL and generate code that will run on a number of platforms.
So today we have very good coverage of languages that you can use with Mono. C# 2.0 (you can use full generics), VB.NET, Java applications - with IKVM which has been incredibly popluar - and a bunch of other languages.
s390
IronPython
IronRuby
PowerPC

4. Mono® 1.0 (7/04) .NET 3.0 / .NET 3.5 .NET 2.0 .NET 1.1 Server: ASP.NET
WCF WF
WPF
.NET 2.0
.NET 1.1
Upgrades to
stack.
Upgrades to
stack.
Server:
ASP.NET
Gtk#
WinForms
C# 2.0
Generics
C# 3.0
LINQ

5. Mono® 1.2 (11/06) .NET 3.0 / .NET 3.5 .NET 2.0 .NET 1.1 Server:
WCF WF
WPF
.NET 2.0
.NET 1.1
Upgrades to
stack.
Upgrades to
stack.
Server:
ASP.NET
Gtk#
WinForms
C# 2.0
Generics
C# 3.0
LINQ

6. Mono Today: Mono 1.9 – March 2008
ASP.NET 1.1 & 2.0
Web Forms & Web Services
Support for ASP.NET AJAX
ADO.NET 1.1 & 2.0
SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL
MySQL, Sybase, DB2, SQLite, etc
Win Forms 1.1 & 2.0
C# 1.0, 2.0, 3.0
LINQ
GTK#

7. Mono® 2.0 (Summer 08) .NET 3.0 / .NET 3.5 .NET 2.0 .NET 1.1 Server:
WCF WF
WPF
.NET 2.0
.NET 1.1
Upgrades to
stack.
Upgrades to
stack.
Server:
ASP.NET
Gtk#
WinForms
C# 2.0
Generics
C# 3.0
LINQ

8. Mono® 3.0 (Olive) .NET 3.0 / .NET 3.5 .NET 2.0 .NET 1.1 Server:
WCF WF
WPF
.NET 2.0
.NET 1.1
Upgrades to
stack.
Upgrades to
stack.
Server:
ASP.NET
Gtk#
WinForms
C# 2.0
Generics
C# 3.0
LINQ

9. Mono® Migration Analyzer (MoMA)
Inspects CIL byte code
Looks for uses, compares with implementation
Missing methods
“Todo” methods (flagged with an attribute)
MoMA is the best place to start; full report of how easy your existing app will be to migrate
We started building the left side of the stack, ie, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Windows.Forms, and that stack is done for 1.1 and 70% done for .NET 2.0. We can run a lot of apps with that. But we didn't really know what people were using, which controls, which bugs actually matter, etc. So, a couple of months ago we built a tool that people could run on windows, and would allow us to figure out what to implement. So we have developed this. Inspects the byte code, looks at methods, and ships with a definition of everything that Mono has. Generates a report and sends it to our website.
Developers can use this tool to find out what apps are portable, and which apps are not portable. So, once the data is submitted, let's see what the data looks like. We aggregate all the data that people have sent us. Between Mono and we implemented 2000 methods.
Regarding apps submitted to us, 16% are VB, 67% are Windows.Forms, 28% are .NET 1.1, and 72% are .NET 2.0.

10. mojoPortal – What Is It? Content Management/Web Site Framework
Project began with the idea of supporting MySql and Mono
Current Features – Blogs, Forums, Calendars, Maps, Image Gallery, Ecommerce, and more
Download it from

11. mojoPortal Architecture

12. Cross Platform Development
Visual Studio 2005/2008
MonoDevelop

13. Developing with MonoDevelop
Free .NET IDE for Linux and Mac OS X
Code completion
Refactoring
Class management
Built-in help
VS 2005 project support
Gtk# designer support
ASP.NET support
C#/VB/Boo/C/C++ support
Much More

14. Getting Mono Mono http://www.mono-project.com/Downloads MoMA
Moonlight
Mono projects
mojoPortal

15. Virtual Machine: Multilanguage
Mono® Stacks
ASP.NET
ADO.NET
Windows.Forms
Mono Runtime
(Implementation of ECMA #335)
MySQL/Postgress
Microsoft Compatibility Libraries
Mono Libraries
Mozilla
Apache Mono
Novell LDAP
Java Compatibility
Evolution#
Novell iFolder
GTK#
Gnome#
ASP.NET
ASP.NET
MySQL
Gtk#/Gnome
D-Bus#
Mozilla
Bonjour
Novell APIs:
iFolder, LDAP
ADO.NET
ADO.NET
Apache Mono
Identity
Desktop: GTK#
OpenOffice
Sqlite#
Cecil
Windows.Forms
Windows.Forms
Java Compatibility
Addins
Rocks
.NET Stack
Mono Stack
Virtual Machine: Multilanguage
Done some very important things
GTK# work - provided bindings for building GUI applications
at Novell, we try to not write C-Code very much, we try to use managed languages
- in the last couple of years we've done Banshee, F-Spot, desktop search
Fairly successful in creating an ecosystem of class libraries that would complement Mono
IKVM - allows you to run unmodified Java apps on top of Mono. Takes your Java byte code and xlates on the fly and generates code for the CIL.
Has exploded into a universe of API and class libraries.
Cecil - a library that lets you manipulate executabeles, insect, make mods, insert code, inspect code, etc.
(Implementation of ECMA #335)

16. Platform Support 32 bit: Operating Systems: x86 Linux SPARC Solaris
S390, IBM
ARM family
PowerPC
64 bit:
x86-64
s390x, IBM
Itanium
Operating Systems:
Linux
Solaris
MacOS X
Windows
Nokia/Maemo
Contributed ports:
Alpha, MIPS (not finished).