Mono for Windows

Tags: Mono,C#,Linux,Windows

Mono provides the necessary software to develop and run .NET client and server applications on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix. Sponsored by Novell, the Mono open source project has an active and enthusiastic contributing community and is positioned to become the leading choice for development of Linux applications.Mono is a software that can develop and run .NET client and server applications.
Mono can run binaries produced by Visual Studio, there is no need to recompile. Mono API coverage is limited to the .NET 1.1 API at this point, with spotty support for 2.0.

Here are some key features of "Mono for Windows":
· Multi-platform
· Based on the ECMA/ISO standards
· Can run .NET, Java, Python and more.
· Open Source, Free Software.
· Commercially supported.
· Comprehensive technology coverage.

· LINQ to SQL is now partially supported
· New debugger engine - Mono Soft Debugger
· Early partial support for C# 4.0
· Includes some components of the ParallelFx framework
· Dynamic language runtime (DLR) is now distributed as part .NET 4 profile
· The WindowsBase assembly is now part of the standard Mono distribution
· A lot of WinForms fixes
· The csharp command now supports auto-completion using the tab key
· xbuild, the Mono implementation of the msbuild build tool has advanced significantly
· Mono now includes a sandbox and its verifier
· As part of the gsoc 2009, Jerry Maine ported Mono.Simd to AMD64
· It is now possible to compile Mono to use the LLVM code generation engine as an optimizing compiler for Mono
· Support for generics is greatly improved compared to 2.4
· Signal Chaining
· Debugging support for GDB

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