Mono splits from Novell/Attachmate to form basis of new company

By tim, on May 16th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Mono is an open source implementation of .NET, formerly sponsored by Novell, and its future following Novell’s acquisition by Attachmate has been the subject of speculation.

Today Mono leader Miguel de Icaza has revealed new plans. In a blog post, he announces Xamarin, a new company focused on Mono. This company will build new

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Adobe AIR 2.6, MonoMac 1.0, cross-platform is not dead yet

By tim, on March 22nd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

It is a busy time for cross-platform toolkits. Adobe has released AIR 2.6, and reading the list of what’s new you would think it was mainly for mobile, since the notes focus on new features for Apple iOS, though AIR is also a runtime for Windows, Linux and desktop Mac. New features for iOS

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Microsoft’s code-first Entity Framework 4.1 nearly done

By tim, on March 16th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has announced the release candidate of Entity Framework 4.1, the data persistence library for .NET, with a go-live licence. The final release to the web is expected in around one month’s time.

The big new feature is code-first, where you do not need to define a database schema or even a database model.

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What’s the story with IE9 and embedded Internet Explorer?

By tim, on March 15th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

There is a certain amount of fuss over the fact that Apple’s latest mobile Safari does not give full performance when either embedded in another application, or pinned to the home screen.

It would help if Apple were more forthcoming on the issue; but in general you cannot assume that embedded browser components will

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Mono project: no plans for cross-platform WPF

By tim, on March 8th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Miguel de Icaza’s report from the Game Developer Conference is upbeat, rightly so in my view as usage of Mono is continuing to build, not only in game development with Unity, a development tool that uses Mono as its scripting engine, but also for mobile development for Apple’s iOS with Monotouch and for Android

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Red Gate to charge for .NET Reflector, runs into storm of protest

By tim, on February 3rd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Tools company Red Gate is to discontinue the free version of .NET Reflector, a popular tool for debugging and decompiling .NET code.

The tool itself is amazing. It takes advantage of the fact that .NET code is not compiled to native code until runtime. The code that is distributed is in .NET “intermediate

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How Microsoft’s Office Web Apps were written in C# and compiled to JavaScript, maybe

By tim, on February 3rd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

While researching another product I came across this 2009 tweet from Microsoft’s Nikhil Kothari:

Office 2010 web apps – perhaps one of the most ambitious script# projects!

Script# is loosely equivalent to the Google Web Toolkit, but whereas GWT compiles Java to JavaScript, Script# compiles C# to JavaScript. According to the site:

Script# is

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Adobe AIR is user-hostile compared to native apps says BankSimple CTO

By tim, on January 17th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Alex Payne, CTO at BankSimple, has written an analysis of Adobe AIR from the user’s perspective. The scenario: his team was looking for a an alternative to Campfire for group chat, and selected HipChat. They liked the features of HipChat, but not the desktop app, which is built using Adobe AIR:

My team experienced

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Windows 8 will run on ARM processors – a natural home for Silverlight?

By tim, on January 6th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft announced today at CES in Las Vegas that the next version of Windows will run on ARM as well as Intel CPUs. But why? The reason is that ARM CPUs have huge momentum in mobile computing, thanks to their low power consumption. Microsoft wants Windows to support System on a Chip (SoC) architectures

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Single sign-on from Active Directory to Windows Azure: big feature, still challenging

By tim, on December 22nd, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has posted a white paper setting out what you need to do in order to have users who are signed on to a local Windows domain seamlessly use an Azure-hosted application, without having to sign in again.

I think this is a huge feature. Maintaining a single user directory is more secure and

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