1. Mono - Open Source .NET

• Columbus Ohio .NET Developers Group

Greg Malcolm Oct 23 2008

2. Mono - Open Source .NET

What is Mono?

An inititive sponsored by Ximian to develop an open source UNIX version of the Microsoft .NET development Platform.

Ximian are now owned by Novell.

Cross platform: Available for Mac and Windows

More info:

• http://www.mono-project.com

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Examples of Mono Applications

Open source:

Tomboy Desktop notes utility

Banshee Music player/manager

Monodevelop Mono developer IDE

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Command line tools

• mono Mono runtime /JIT

• mcs, vbnc Mono C#/VB.NET Compilers

• gacutils, sn GAC tools

• ilasm/monodis IL assembler/dissembler

• xsd, wsdl, disco Xml & Webservice tools

• caspol, certmgr, permview Security tools

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GUI Toolkits - Windows.Forms

• Looks better on Microsoft Windows platforms

• Easiest GUI choice for migrating a Windows appliatiction

• Looks a bit out of place in XWindows

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GUI Toolkits GTK#

• Exists on most platforms

• Ideal for UNIX platform

• Based on GTK+ GUI toolkit, so written in C

• Tomboy, Banshee and Monodevelop all use this.

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Webservers and Webservices

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• UsesXSPinstead ofASP.NET

• UsesApache+Mod_Monoinsead ofIIS

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ADO.NET

Data providers are available for:

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• SQL Server

• Oracle

• ODBC

• Sybase

• DB2

• OLE DB

• Postgres

• MySql

• SQLite

• Firebird

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Mono framework extensions

• Remoting.CORBA A CORBA implementation

• #ZipLib For manipulating compressed files

• Tao Framework Bindings for OpenGL

• ExtraLDAPsupport

• Unix specificRemotingandSecurity

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What are we missing?

• Enterprise.Services

• Cross process transactions

• COM

• Unmanaged code support (native code)

• Original ASP

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MoMA Migration Analyzer

Migration Challenges:

• Mono vs .NET framework differences

• Different filing system features

• Differing security models

• Unmanaged code

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MoMA Migration Analyzer

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Sources:

• http://mono-project.com

• Code Samples from.NET Framework 2.0 Application Development Foundation by Tony Northrup

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