After many months of hard work, today it has filed Mono 2.0, the new version of this platform that allows you to run applications developed in. NET on different operating systems, like Linux or Mac OS X. Thus, developers are not just limited to Windows, is available only system where the official platform of Microsoft.

Obviously, the list of changes introduced in this version is kilometer, but what stands out most is the implementation of a range of basic APIs paramilitary many applications. Among them is the media. NET 2.0, of ADO.NET 2.0, for access to databases, for ASP.NET 2.0, for creating Web applications or for Windows.Forms 2.0, which includes the management of windows.

For users, this means that a large proportion of applications developed for. NET 2.0 will run on Mono without too many or no change. It is estimated that nearly half of them will do so, while 20 percent require minor amendments and another 20 percent would require major changes to work.

When things well, we already have several options that allow us to develop for multiple operating systems, Adobe AIR and being. NET some of the departing with better prospects, because the companies behind them.

Anyway, other booksellers, such as Qt, acquired by Nokia for some time, it also allows cross-platform development, and is not alone in the market. Hopefully the emergence of this we Mono 2.0 enables users to enjoy more applications in most operating systems.

In addition Mono 2.0 includes its own innovations:
GTK # 2.12
Support for SQLite
Mono Posix to access the functions of Unix / Linux
Mono Cairo to produce 2D graphics library Cairo

Mono currently runs on Linux, FreeBSD, UNIX, Mac OS X, Solaris and Windows platforms.

Download: Mono 2.0.

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