{"id":1290,"date":"2009-03-11T00:02:11","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T23:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1290-mono-creeping-into-the-mainstream.html"},"modified":"2009-03-11T00:02:11","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T23:02:11","slug":"mono-creeping-into-the-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1290-mono-creeping-into-the-mainstream.html","title":{"rendered":"Mono creeping into the mainstream?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who have not already seen this link on Twitter: I&#8217;ve posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itjoblog.co.uk\/2009\/03\/bridging-open-source-and-net-w.html\" target=\"_blank\">short piece on Mono<\/a>, the open source implementation of Microsoft .NET. The piece was prompted by my own experience writing a simple .NET application in Visual Studio and deploying it to Linux. Admittedly I anticipated the move by using MySQL rather than SQL Server as the database; but even so, I was impressed by how easy it was &#8211; I spent more time recently deploying an application <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1287-hands-on-with-aspnet-membership-sql-express-and-server-2008.html\" target=\"_blank\">from Visual Studio 2008 to Windows Server 2008<\/a>, thanks to some issues with SQL Server Express.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itjoblog.co.uk\/2009\/03\/bridging-open-source-and-net-w.html#comment-2973\" target=\"_blank\">Miguel de Icaza&#8217;s comment<\/a> about scalability and garbage collection, two of the factors that have deterred some from real-world Mono deployments.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:d6b7cd3a-aca9-47c5-9e23-d346728e2c38\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/mono\" rel=\"tag\">mono<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/.net\" rel=\"tag\">.net<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/windows\" rel=\"tag\">windows<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/microsoft\" rel=\"tag\">microsoft<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/asp.net\" rel=\"tag\">asp.net<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/linux\" rel=\"tag\">linux<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who have not already seen this link on Twitter: I&#8217;ve posted a short piece on Mono, the open source implementation of Microsoft .NET. The piece was prompted by my own experience writing a simple .NET application in Visual Studio and deploying it to Linux. Admittedly I anticipated the move by using &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1290-mono-creeping-into-the-mainstream.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mono creeping into the mainstream?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,44,55,80,94,96,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net","category-internet","category-microsoft","category-software-development","category-visual-studio","category-web-authoring","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}