Mono for Windows 2.6.3

4.5 out of 5 stars 4.5 (128 votes)

(March 10, 2010)

Windows 2000/2003/Vista/XP / Open Source / 5,872 downloads

Mono is a comprehensive open source development platform based on the .NET framework that allows IT and ISV developers to build Linux and cross-platform applications with unprecedented productivity. Mono's .NET implementation is based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Infrastructure.

  • Publisher

    Novell, Inc.

  • Homepage

    Mono

  • Latest Changes

    - WCF client and server, the subset exposed by Silverlight 2.0

    - LLVM support, to improve performance on server/computational loads

    - Co-routine framework Mono.Tasklets

    - Preview of LINQ to SQL using DbLinq

    - New Soft Debugger, integrated with MonoDevelop 2.2

    - Joint release with MonoDevelop 2.2.2

  • Other Versions

    Mono for Mac OS X

    Mono for Linux

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  1. 1 out of 5 stars
    bopb99

    Reviewing 2.6.3 (Mar 30, 2010)

    Not only this is based on patented stuff.
    (It includes ECMA + other .NET stuff)
    It's also a replica of something that has it's home on that platform.

    They are trying to get developers use Windows to write cross platform.
    To make certain it only/mostly/has the most certainty to work on Windows.

    Developers, please don't use this .NET/MONO crap. MS can pull the plug any time. Do you research and invest in real cross-platform and free(dom) toolkits, API's, tools. Such as Python, Java, C/C++. Not in .NET clones/wannabe's. Do your research and discover how ugly the area is marked and bordered with .NET. (The flies are you, developers, not the users per se)

    @elitegangsta
    Get of your a** and do some trouble for not getting spanked, sued, trapped, abused. There is a reason for those ratings and it's more than high horses. I can assure you.

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    elitegangsta

    Reviewing 2.6 (Dec 16, 2009)

    Fantastic. Has done wonderful things in the community. Viva la Open Source as well :)

    I pity the people who are giving this 1 star ratings due to the fact it uses .NET... get off your high horse and learn something. Ignorance is NOT bliss...

  3. 4 out of 5 stars
    zanna789

    Reviewing 2.6 Preview 1 (Dec 16, 2009)

    Mono is targetting cross-platformness. So... what needs to be explained here...?

    Here's an example of a sucessfull large enterprise-grade project that uses Mono:

    http://medsphere.org/com...y/project/openvista-cis
    http://medsphere.org/com...ect/openvista-appliance

  4. 3 out of 5 stars
    Joco

    Reviewing 2.6 Preview 1 (Nov 12, 2009)

    Would it be better to write an Development Environment for Linux rather than writing Mono for Windows ? Sorry but I don't get the idea of Mono on Windows.

  5. 1 out of 5 stars
    jcunews

    Reviewing 1.9_4 (Aug 15, 2008)

    Very disappointing, but should have been expected from a too-many-dependencies software. Compared with the Microsoft .NET, Mono is twice as large, more memory hungry, more time to load (due to dependencies), and more slower too - although you might not notice it. Unless one only works in Windows environment, there is no need to even try it out.

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