"The 1.0 release builds and runs on Windows XP, the FreeBSD operating system, and Mac OS X 10.2. In addition, the release contains many bug fixes, more documentation, new samples and additional test suites."
For low-level .NET weenies (like me : ), this is the stuff, baby!
From Jesse Ezell: Project Mono can now execute SQL statements on MS SQL Server through TDS and has a bit of Windows.Forms code running on both Linux and Windows as well as a good deal of ASP.NET support. Looks like things are coming along at a decent rate.
From cn: "Chris Sells, who actually created a code generation product, was unable to convince me of the importance of code generation. Why did one of my friends succeed where the other failed?"
Rebuttal, please?
I don't know if this is new or not, but it's new to me and I know that .NET folks need to know how to plug into MMC. Jim Murphy, of Attila fame, has the solution.
"SOAPscope is designed to help diagnose problems developing XML Web Services by logging message traffic and helping you find problems with the SOAP messages and WSDL."
Mindreef did a very cool demo of their diagnostics tools at the DevCon and it was a big hit. Recommended.
The Middleware Company ran a comparison between the Pet Shop v2.0 application for both Java and .NET, both with the same features and both with the same aim at building something to use as a "best practice" sample while still being as responsive and scalable as possible. Pet Shop v2.0 was both company's attempt at winning the comparision run by the Middleware Company.
My reading of this report is that .NET kicked Java's hinder in every single measure, from through-put and responsiveness to lines of code and lines of configuration required to build and run the app.
