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By tim, on February 19th, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterI have just com across Mono Tools, a Novell add-in for Visual Studio that lets you test Mono compatibility. It adds a Mono menu which has options to run locally or remotely in Mono, analyze for compatibility issues, and create deployment packages. No sign of Mac support, which is a missed opportunity, but understandable given
…continue reading Mono Tools for Visual Studio: code on Windows, run on Linux
By tim, on January 29th, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterMicrosoft has had a bumper quarter driven by Windows 7, as expected. I’ve put this into a table as I have
…continue reading Windows 7 booms for Microsoft, everything else is flat
By tim, on December 18th, 2009 Follow tim on TwitterThe Mono Project has released Moonlight 2, its implementation of Silverlight for Linux. I tried my own database application and was pleased to find that it works fine; better than it did with the earlier release.
Note the right-click menu which offers some handy debugging features as well as the invitation to “Install Microsoft Media Pack”.
…continue reading Moonlight 2 released; no Microsoft codecs unless you get it from Novell
By tim, on October 29th, 2009 Follow tim on TwitterMono founder Miguel de Icaza spoke at the Monospace conference – 250 enthusiasts in Austin, Texas – on the past and future of the project. I wasn’t there but enjoyed listening to the keynote as posted by Redmonk’s Michael Coté.
“Never ask for permission, ask for forgiveness – that’s how we’ve done a lot of
…continue reading Miguel de Icaza on eight years of Mono, its future, and the Silverlight desktop
By tim, on September 23rd, 2009 Follow tim on TwitterYesterday I speculated about what was meant by the inclusion of Silverlight among supported runtimes for Intel’s Moblin Linux, which is being used on netbooks using the Atom processor. I had assumed it was some new development of Moonlight, Mono’s Silverlight implementation, but apparently this is not the case. Here’s what Microsoft’s Brian Goldfarb, director
…continue reading Microsoft brings Silverlight – not Mono – to Linux via Intel
By tim, on July 8th, 2009 Follow tim on TwitterMicrosoft has promised not to sue those who develop implementations of its C# language and Common Language Infrastructure – the heart of .NET.
You might assume that to be good news for Mono, the open source implementation of .NET sponsored by Novell; and I suppose it is, though not in any major way.
The key point here
…continue reading Is Mono safe to use?
By tim, on November 9th, 2008 Follow tim on TwitterI grabbed this screenshot from a preview just installed:
It comes from Delphi Prism, a new product from Embarcadero/Codegear which lets you code for .NET using the Delphi language, an object-oriented version of Pascal. The product is not as new as it first appears. It is based on an existing product from RemObjects, called Oxygene,
…continue reading Code for Mac Cocoa in Visual Studio – surprised to see this?
By tim, on October 13th, 2008 Follow tim on TwitterMicrosoft’s Scott Guthrie has announced the final release of Silverlight 2.0, its browser plug-in which includes a cross-platform implementation of the .NET runtime as well as a multimedia rendering engine. It will be available for download tomorrow.
Not really a surprise, but nonetheless a significant moment for Microsoft. I have been watching the project closely since
…continue reading Silverlight 2.0 is released, Eclipse tools for Silverlight announced
By tim, on August 10th, 2008 Follow tim on TwitterA year or so a go I wrote a post called Adobe AIR: 10 reasons to love it, 10 reasons to hate it. Here’s the same kind of list for Microsoft’s Silverlight, based on the forthcoming Silverlight 2.0 rather than the current version. The items are not in any kind of order; they also reflect
…continue reading Microsoft Silverlight: 10 reasons to love it, 10 reasons to hate it
By tim, on March 13th, 2008 Follow tim on TwitterUnlocked iPhone, of course. Miguel de Icaza has the details and some video links.
Flash, Silverlight, Mono, Java: surely Jobs won’t keep all these runtimes officially forbidden for ever? It strikes me that Flash has the best chance of getting there, simply because without it the Web is a little bit broken for iPhone users. It’s
…continue reading Mono on the iPhone
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