1. Mono
CS422
Dick Steflik

2. Mono Project
Open Source project started at Ximian taken over by Novell
Create an ECMA standard compliant .NET compliant set of tools
When MS came out with .NET they said there would be a version that could be run on Linux
This never happened, thus the open source project

3. Mono Status Current version is 2.4.2 (June 2009)
We will be using running on Fedora Core 9
Novell has recently ported Mono to the iPod Touch with the hope of opening up the platform to .NET developers
Currently being used on all major platforms
Windows, Unix, Linux

4. Forward Plan Implementation of .NET 3.0 is underway
Moonlight - Open Source version of Silverlight (MS’s version of Flash) is underway and been supported since Mono 1.9)

5. Problems
Recently there has been some fear that MS may take Mono users to court over patent infringements.
Some parts of .NET were not submitted to ECMA for standartization ( ASP.NET, ADO.NET, WindowsForms)
This has dampened some of the enthusiasm for Mono, many now waiting to see what MS is planning.

6. Whats in Mono Common Language Interface (CLI)
Virtual Machine similar to Java
Just-in-time compilation of bytecodes to improve performance
C# (mcs), VB (vbnc) Compilers
Desktop and Web based applications
Compiles to CLI bytecodes
MonoDevelop -
IDE for Mono , makes it easier to port apps from Visual Studio.NET to Linux/Unix

7. What’s in Mono Mod-mono
Module to provide ASP.NET support for the Apache web server
Apache receives request for .asp/.aspx page and passes it to the mod-mono-server (xsp)