The C# compiler is greatly improved and now delivers support for Language Integrated Query (LINQ) functionality and expression trees. Mono 2.0 also includes its own desktop API stack based around open-source technologies like GTK+ and Cairo. It comes with a comprehensive set of Microsoft-compatible APIs, including a cross-platform implementation of Windows.Forms 2.0 for desktop application development. This release includes compilers for C# 3.0 and Visual Basic 8. Although the Mono project has generated some controversy and has received criticism from a small but vocal cadre of Linux users, the development framework has been enthusiastically embraced by a rapidly growing number of application developers. The Mono project was first conceived by GNOME cofounder Miguel de Icaza as a means of accelerating desktop Linux application development and enabling Windows developers to bring some of their existing skills and code to the Linux platform. NET 2.0 and C# 3.0 on a broad range of platforms and architectures. This milestone release delivers compatibility with. NET framework, has announced the availability of version 2.0.
The Mono project, which builds a cross-platform open-source implementation of Microsoft's.
