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Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Release Candidate has been released.

Mono 1.1.17.1 has been released. Mono is a portable, open-source .NET CLI implementation.

This release includes bugfixes.

Mono 1.1.17 has been released. Mono is a portable, open-source .NET CLI implementation.

This release includes: the removal of the Mono Basic compiler and runtime, Windows.Forms printing support, the beginnings of a port to Linux/Alpha, plus other changes and bugfixes.

Mono 1.1.16.1 has been released. Mono is an open-source .NET CLI implementation.

This release includes several bugfixes, and other changes.

Mono 1.1.16 has been released. Mono is an open-source .NET CLI implementation.

This release includes: support for running IronPython 1.0 Beta 8, new performance-enhancing default optimizations, verification and reliability improvements, the addition of support for .NET 2.0 declarative security to the runtime, C# compiler support for switch on nullable types, plus other changes and bugfixes.

Erik Meijer has announced that registration is now open for the 2006 Lang.NET Symposium. It is "a forum for discussion on programming languages, managed execution environments, compilers, multi-language libraries, and integrated development environments."

It will be held from July 31 to August 2, 2006, in Redmond, Washington.

Lang .NET 2006 has put out a call for contributions. It aims to be "a forum for discussion of programming languages, managed execution environments, compilers, multi-language libraries, and integrated development environments."

It will be held from August 1 to 3, 2006, in Redmond, Washington. Submissions are due by May 15, 2006.

Mono 1.1.15 has been released. Mono is a portable, open-source .NET implementation

This release includes: Windows.Forms improvements, assembly unloading when an appdomain is released, C# compiler bugfixes, new tests, performance improvements, support for Linux/SPARC, plus other bugfixes and changes.

Dan Fernandez has announced that all of the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions will be permanently free. Included are: Visual Basic 2005 Express, Visual C# 2005 Express, Visual J# 2005 Express, Visual C++ 2005 Express, and Visual Web Developer 2005 Express.

Microsoft Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure 2.0 has been released. It is a "working implementation of the ECMA CLI and the ECMA C# language specification."

This release includes: full support for generics, C# 2.0 features, Lightweight Code Generation, plus other changes and bugfixes.

Portable.NET 0.7.4 has been released. It is a portable, open-source .NET implementation.

This release includes: an unroller for x86_64, threading-related improvements, support for using sizeof(primitive type) in safe code, documentation improvements, plus other enhancements and bugfixes.

Mono 1.1.13 has been released. Mono is a portable, open-source implementation of .NET.

This release includes an S390x port, the removal of various obsolete classes from Mono.Posix, support for the new 2.0 System.Threading primitives, Windows.Forms updates, plus more.

Mono 1.1.10 has been released. Mono is a portable, open-source .NET implementation.

This release includes: JavaScript compiler support for multiple file compilation and import statements, support for C# 2.0 friend assemblies and external alias qualifiers, reduced memory consumption, plus numerous other changes and fixes.

Microsoft has announced that Visual Studio Express will be available as a free download until November 6, 2006. It is a release of Visual Studio targeted towards students and hobbyists.

It has been announced that final release versions of Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0 are now available on MSDN for MSDN subscribers.

Mono 1.1.9.1 has been released. Mono is a portable, open-source .NET implementation.

This release includes a fix for ASP.NET crashing when GDI+ is missing, better support in mod_mono and xsp for coping with errors under Apache 1.3, a bugfix for async sockets, plus other fixes.

Mono 1.1.9 has been released. It is a portable, open-source .NET implementation.

This release includes IA-64 and ARM ports, improvements to the JScript.NET compiler, better C# compiler error/warning location reporting, plus other improvements and fixes.

It has been announced that there will be a meeting of Mono developers and users on September 13, 2005.

Various Mono developers will be there to interact with users, Mono-based applications built for Linux will be showcased, new Mono software funded by Google's Summer of Code will be demoed, and the new vector-based rendering API will be showcased, in addition to other activities.

Portable.NET 0.7.2 has been released. It is a cross-platform .NET implementation.

This release includes support for manual register allocation in CVM for x86-64, BeOS thread support, an update to a modified version of Boehm GC 6.5, System.Windows.Forms and System.Drawing changes and fixes, the implementation of missing functions in the Strings class, plus other bugfixes and improvements.

The third editions of the C# and CLI Ecma standards have been approved. The new C# standard includes support for generics, nullable types, and anonymous methods. The CLI standard includes a parallel API allowing for the easier development of multithreaded code, and support for generics.