Download Mono 1.2

The developers behind Mono have yesterday version 1.2 released by Mono. Mono is an open-source implementation of the .NET Framework. Using Mono, developers can write cross-platform applications that will work not only on Windows, but also on Mac OS X, Linux, and Unix. The software includes a C# compiler, a .NET compatible runtime, and two different sets of APIs: one that provides compatibility with Microsoft’s .NET Framework (including support for ASP.NET, ADO.NET, and a number of other components) and a set that offers a variety of Linux and Unix-specific functions. An extensive overview of all the beauty in version 1.2 is up this page here are the changes made since version 1.1.18:

Changes since Mono 1.1.18

• Serialization callbacks, allows for version-resistant serialization.
• The Registry now supports machine-level settings.

Many new tools are part of Mono 1.2:

• prj2make, a tool developed by Francisco Martinez is now part of the standard Mono distribution. You can use prj2make to produce Makefiles that will work on Unix for projects that use Visual Studio solutions.
• dtd2xsd: A new tool to produce Xml Schema Definitions from an XML document that contains a Document Type Definition (DTD), by Atsushi.
• mono-xmltool: a tool to validate XML files with RelaxNG, XSDs, DTDs, RNCs or NVDLs as well as providing a command line tool for doing XSLT transforms using the command line.
• mono-service: A new tool used to start services that implement the System.ServiceProcess API.
• mozroots: A tool used to import the Mozilla TLS and SSL certificates into the Mono trusted certificate store (used for HTTPS connections for instance).
• certmgr: can now download and import certificates into the stores (eg SSL, LDAPS), list existing certificate and remove them from a store.
• permview: can display assembly-level declarative security present in assemblies (RequestMinimum, RequestOptional and RequestRefuse).

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