"Mono: A Developer's Notebook" Released by O'Reilly

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Getting Straight to Work with Mono--The Open Source .NET
O'Reilly Releases "Mono: A Developer's Notebook"

Sebastopol, CA--"We developed Mono to make desktop application development
fun," says Miguel de Icaza, leader of the GNOME project and founder of
Ximian. "We wanted to make it easier to create powerful applications, and
to create a common framework for application developers to build their
software on." In his foreword to the newly released "Mono: A Developer's
Notebook" (O'Reilly, US $24.95) by Edd Dumbill and Niel M. Bornstein, de
Icaza goes on to explain that Mono started out of the needs of its
developers. "We wanted to build more software in less time and be more
productive, and spend more time creating interesting applications."  And,
as de Icaza notes, they believe they have achieved this.

The Mono Project is the much talked-about, occasionally controversial,
open source initiative to create a Unix implementation of Microsoft's .NET
Development Framework. Its purpose is to allow developers to build and
deploy cross-platform .NET applications. The project has also sparked
interest in developing components, libraries, and frameworks with C#, the
programming language of .NET.

The controversy? Some say Mono will become the preferred platform for
Linux development, empowering Linux/Unix developers. Others say it will
allow Microsoft to embrace, extend, and extinguish Linux.  Although the
controversy continues, many developers are eager to see what Mono is all
about.  "Mono: A Developer's Notebook" offers them the inside look they want.

Bypassing the talk and theory, this lab-style guide jumps right into Mono
1.0. Diving quickly into a rapid tour of Mono, readers will work through
more than fifty mini-projects that introduce them to the most important
and compelling aspects of the 1.0 release.  Using the task-oriented format
of this new series, readers learn how to acquire, install, and run Mono on
Linux, Windows, or Mac OS X. They'll work with the various Mono
components: the Mono runtime, the class libraries, and the Mono C#
compiler. No other resource delves so deeply into Mono or shows as
effectively what Mono is capable of.  Developers will gain hands-on
experience with Mono's modern programming language features which
include:

-A garbage-collected managed environment for running components safely and
reliably
-Support for legacy components without compromising the managed
capabilities
-An advanced Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler for fast code
-A cross-platform runtime and migration path for Windows developers moving
to Linux
-Support for multiple programming languages
-Excellent integration with unit testing techniques

The new Developer's Notebooks series from O'Reilly covers important new
tools for software developers. Emphasizing example over explanation and
practice over theory, the books focus on learning by doing--delivering the
goods straight from the masters, in an informal and code-intensive style
that suits developers. Developers who have been curious about Mono, but
haven't known where to start, will find the solution in "Mono: A
Developer's Notebook."

Additional Resources:

Chapter 3, "Core .NET," is available online at:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/monoadn/chapter/index.html

For more information about the book, including table of contents, index,
author bios, and samples, see:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/monoadn/

For a cover graphic in JPEG format, go to:
ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/graphics/book_covers/hi-res/0596007...

Mono: A Developer's Notebook
Edd Dumbill and Niel M. Bornstein
ISBN 0-596-00792-2, 278 pages, $24.95 US, $36.95 CA
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