Some questions about Simple.Data and Mono:
Can I safely choose Simple.Data for a new project using Mono today?
There is the intention to maintain Mono compatibility in future versions?
The features are the same as the version for Windows?
Some testimony from someone who has already used in Mono?
Many thanks!
There will be a new official Mono build soon as part of the RC process. For now you should be able to clone the GitHub repo (http://github.com/markrendle/Simple.Data) and build the latest version.
Mono support is a requirement of the project, and will continue in all future versions.
Everything that works on Windows and MS.NET should work on Mono on OSX and Linux. If you find that something does not work, that is a bug and should be reported at http://github.com/markrendle/Simple.Data/Issues .
I have not personally got any projects using Simple.Data on Mono, so I can't offer a real testimony, but there are ~700 tests which all pass using Mono 2.10 on Mac OSX against a SQL Server DB.
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Looking for a download to MONO Runtime 3.2 but I just can find this for Mac.
See HERE
Are there no releases for Linux/Windows ?
Are there no releases for Linux?
The tarball is all you need to use/install Mono in Linux.
If what you want is that your favourite distro imports this version of Mono into its packaging system (e.g.: apt-get), then you would need to ask in the forums, mailing lists or other online resources about that distro.
Are there no releases for Windows?
First, I will ask you another question, are you sure do you really need Mono for Windows? For most use cases, Windows already bundles .NET into the last versions. Furthermore, Mono for Windows is not a top priority platform for the Mono team and may lack features or have worse performance than on Linux/Mac. Therefore Mono for windows is only really useful for certain uncommon scenarios.
If you're really interested in those uncommon use cases, then keep bugging Mono maintainers in their forums, mailing lists or IRC, to remind them to package it (it's not really a priority anymore since this platform is not something they target with their commercial offerings).
UPDATE: A Xamarin employee stated that the installer would be available when version 3.2.3 is released, and they complied with their promise because 3.2.3 has been released and the windows installer is available in the download page.
I'm starting a new project that'll require Mono and mod_mono to run under CentOS. There are two versions of Mono: the release which is 2.10.8, and the development branch, which is 3.0.7 as of today.
I'm wondering what would be the right version to start. Obviously the stable version would be my choice, but I'm not sure what Mono 3.0 adds that could be missing from 2.10. Note that the project will be ASP.NET 4.0, using MVC4.
What version would be recommended? The stable but older one (dates back from 19-Dec-2011!) or the more recent one?
Mono 2.10 supports ASP.NET MVC3, since you want to use MVC4, you'll have to use a later version.
More recent versions of Mono have solved a lot of issues in 2.10, including issues related to ASP.NET.
So you may want to go for a more recent version. I don't think stability will be an issue,
but you will have to perform proper tests to determine if the version you are using supports everything you are trying to do in your application.
Don't deploy to production without testing.
UPDATE: Correction, there is 'partial' MVC4 support in 2.10 and no support for async.
So while you might be able to use 2.10, your mileage may vary depending on what features your app uses
I'm working on a cross-platform solution currently. The solution uses XmlMtomReader and XmlMtomWriter from .NET framework 3.0.
Now i need to know if these two classes (and all the nessasary infrastructure around them) are fully supported in Mono project from the porting-it-to-linux point of view. :)
You can check it on the mono status:
http://go-mono.com/status/
You can also check your code using the mono migration analyser
http://www.mono-project.com/MoMA
I checked they are currently not implemented
The APIs are available on the current Mono 2.6 preview, but they are not available on the 2.4 release (the current official release).
Hopefully this is a silly question and there's really a simple solution somewhere out there but...
Has anybody successfully gotten DbLinq to play nicely with Mono 2.4 on Mac OS X 10.5?
I've got my SQLite database ready but for the life of me, I can't find sqlmetal to generate my objects.
I'm guessing I might have to download a previous version of Mono that included sqlmetal, build and install it, and then just use the code generated from that version on Mono 2.4...but I'm hoping to avoid it at all costs.
I'd avoid using DBLinq for production code... many of Linq-To-SQL's features aren't implemented, and walking through the source code shows a low level of maturity... many of the methods are not implemented or marked as "unterminated".
...you've been warned!
Using the pre-compiled binary in this case just doesn't work.
To get a properly generated DbLinq data layer, you have to use the sqlmetal tool included with Mono (but, apparently, not with the pre-compiled binaries for OS X). You have to pull down the Mono trunk (along with all the dependencies) and build Mono from the source.
Once you build and install Mono from source, you should have the sqlmetal tool. Once you generate your code, it's as easy as including the generated *.cs file and importing Mono.Data.Sqlite.
Mono 2.6 will include for the first time a preview of DbLinq with Mono. You can take it out for a spin today if you install DbLinq on your own side-by-side with your current Mono setup.
Does anyone know if you can run NUnit on Mono? The reason I ask is because on the download page it says:
For some releases, we provide a zipped package for use under Mono.
However, the only release that actually has a separate mono release (judging by its label that says "mono:" and then shows the .zip) is the ancient 2.2. NUnit's most recent version is 2.4.8 so I would really rather not use that old of a version.
Can you use the recent version of NUnit on Mono? If not, is there anything I could do to get it to work? What exactly makes something Mono runnable?
Mono 2.4 will ship with NUnit 2.4.8, and has been in use by the Mono project for their tests for several months, so it should work pretty well.
Mono 2.4 preview: http://mono.ximian.com/monobuild/preview/download-preview/
To answer any other "Will x run on mono..." they've produced a tool called the Mono Migation Analyser.
It can be found here and will show you what methods (if any) mono is missing to run your application.