Sunday, October 24, 2004

MONO 2.0 Coming in March 2005

MONO 2.0 Coming in March 2005

Novell has lifted the lid on enhancements integrated into the next major release of mono, its development platform for enabling Microsoft .Net applications to run unchanged on LINUX. The forthcoming version, due to ship next march, will implement a native Visual Basic (VB.Net) Compiler and Windows Forms ( WinForms). Mono 2.0 will include native Visual Basic and WinForms and an update to the .NET application Programming interfaces(APIs).With VB.NET Support a windows shop can deploy all of their Visual Studio applications on Linux Server. Mono 1.0, available since june, includes developer tools and the infrastructure to run .Net client and server applications.

Mono has a C# compiler and Just in time and a head-of- time compilers. The platform implements the European Computer Manufacturers Association standards for C#, class libraries and the .NET Common Language Infrastructure, submitted by Microsoft.

Winforms within .NET is Microsoft’s recommended method for defining and generating graphical user interface (GUI) applications, which include such things as windows, dialogue boxes and buttons.

Apart from ease of use and checks that prevent coding bugs, using this method for all GUI applications can ensure a consistent display format, said Novell. According to De Icaza ( Novell development, Vice President) the Win forms API will be implemented for linux using the Gnome GUI libraries including Drawing.2D for graphics.





SNIPPET COMPILER

KNOW ABOUT SNIPPET COMPILER

We can write, compile and test small code snippets without having to create an entire Visual Studio .Net Project.

An IDE like Visual Studio.Net is great! But it is great only when u are planning a sufficiently large project. When you have to execute a small project, doesn’t a large IDE come as a hassle. Imagine testing a small piece of code, and needing to create project, assure that all the files and folders are in place and building it. This is a place where a professional IDE is a bit of hassle.

If you are planning to learn .NET and want to do a bit of coding on your home PC and you have free tool available where u can do C# programming and VS.Net Programming developed by Jeff Key called Snippet Compiler. It offers for creating a simple class or web page, and testing it out. It has the look and feel of some of the cute little IDEs, which we had used a decade back on Windows 3.1. It is uncomplicated and is still powerful.

As Student Programmers cannot afford in buying an compiler to run .Net applications u can use this free tool. It is a great tool for coding small scripts, which we write in our day-to-day life. And it is just the perfect tool if you planning to learn .Net.