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Using .NET to develop iPhone apps with Mono

Ryan Paul at Ars Technia has an interesting piece about Mono and it’s implications for bringing .NET to some unexpecd platforms through Static compilation.

This opens the door for .NET development for iPhone, Android, and the Wii. It’s a short article but does get the juices flowing.

Source: Open source Mono framework brings C# to iPhone and Wii

Silverlight runtime for Linux available for download

For those who haven’t been following along. Moonlight is an open source Silverlight runtime for Linux and Version 1.0 Beta 1 is now officially available for download on the Mono Project website.

Public Beta of Moonlight expected within days

According to BetaNews the public beta of Moonlight, a Silverlight runtime for Linux that is part of the Mono project, will be released within the next several days.

In the next stage of what has turned out to be a more successful project than even its creators envisioned, the public beta of Moonlight — a runtime library for Linux supporting sites that expect Silverlight — is expected within days.

Moonlight public release supporting Silverlight 1.0 for Linux

Silverlight and LinuxAccording to a blog post by Miguel de Icaza, VP of Engineering at Novell and lead on the Moonlight project, the first public release of Moonlight was made available on Tuesday. This is a source code release which supports Silverlight 1.0.

I don’t have an environment to test it on, if you do let us know how it’s working out.

Silverlight Chess in Mono

Silverlight ChessMiguel de Icaza announced this week that they’ve got Silverlight Chess working on Mono’s Moonlight. Nice.

Between Chris and Jackson the javascript bridge is complete enough that a few hours later (after fixing a double free) it is now possible to have the Mono VM play against the browser Javascript in Firefox/Linux as well:

Silverlight playing nice with Linux?

Silverlight and LinuxNovells VP of Development Miguel de Icaza plans to present the Silverlight 1.1 plugin for Linux at Mix07 in Paris later this week.

Via - Application Development Trends Magazine