{"id":105,"date":"2004-05-05T22:18:15","date_gmt":"2004-05-05T20:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.0.0.2\/wordpress\/?p=105"},"modified":"2016-02-28T01:37:45","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T00:37:45","slug":"mono_beta_1_released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/2004\/05\/mono_beta_1_released\/","title":{"rendered":"Mono beta 1 released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Open Source version of .NET has reached the beta stadium. Mono beta 1 it is labeled. Read the Release Notes or go to their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.go-mono.org\/download.html\">Download page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the big things about this release, is that it supports generics in both the C# compiler and the virtual machine. Also Mono has a Global Assembly Cache now and a gacutil-like tool to manage the GAC. Beta 1 contains preview functionality (alpha stage) of System.Windows.Forms as well.<\/p>\n<p>If you need a free IDE to develop Mono programs (or .NET programs, whatever you like to call them), you can use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monodevelop.com\/\">MonoDevelop<\/a>. It&#8217;s currently only at version 0.3, but it gets the job done. It has Code Completion, Class Management, an integrated debugger and built-in Help.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.go-mono.org\/\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nIt so happened I installed version 0.31 (the previous version) yesterday, and played around with it. The executables it generates (executed on Linux or other non-Windows platforms within Mono) execute perfectly on Windows without calling Mono. I haven&#8217;t tested any difficult programs yet, but this is great.<br \/>\nApache for Win32 with Mono will release us from IIS while maintaining .NET compatibility and without loosing our favorite Windows programs.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Open Source version of .NET has reached the beta stadium. Mono beta 1 it is labeled. Read the Release Notes or go to their Download page. One of the big things about this release, is that it supports generics in both the C# compiler and the virtual machine. Also Mono has a Global Assembly <a href='https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/2004\/05\/mono_beta_1_released\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,44,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aspnet","category-linux","category-microsoft","category-37-id","category-44-id","category-45-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1850,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/1850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}