New Version of the Use-Page

Mono is positioned to be the leading platform for development of Gnome applications on Linux and is an open-source alternative for Microsoft Windows development. Mono can be used in a variety of scenarios and this page shall give an short overview how Mono can be used.

Table of contents 1 Usage Scenarios 1.1 Create a cross-platform application 1.2 Develop Web Applications 1.3 Port existing Applications from Windows to Linux or Mac 1.4 Embed Mono into your Application 1.5 Something completely different 2 Languages

Usage Scenarios

Mono can be used in variety of applications, however there are some pieces which are important regardless of the usage of Mono, such as:

• Running your first Mono application
• C# Compiler and Mono Runtime
• Debugger, Debugging Tutorial and Debugging
• Profiling
• API Documentation

Create a cross-platform application

• Guidelines:Application Portability
• Gui Toolkits

Develop Web Applications

• ASP.NET and a tutorial for using MS ASP.NET StarterKits on Mono
• XSP and mod_mono
• Web Services
• Database Access

Port existing Applications from Windows to Linux or Mac

• Mono Migration Analyzer
• Guide: Porting Winforms Applications
• Guide:_Porting_ASP.NET_Applications
• Guidelines:Application Portability
• WinForms For information about the current status of Monos WinForms implementation.
• Using Mono on Windows

Embed Mono into your Application

In opposition to the Java Virtual Machine or MS .NET, Mono can be embedded into C-Applications to provide a fast and powerful environment for scripts inside the Application, see Embedding Mono for more information.

Something completely different

In this case it’s naturally difficult to point to a single direction for advice so please take a look at the following articles as the maybe provide help or at least an inspiration:

• Cecil, a library to generate and inspect programs and libraries in the ECMA CIL format.
• Interop with Native Libraries

Examples for “Something Completely Different” developed with Mono:

• A Managed Mono Runtime
• Microthreading with Mono
• SharpOS, an operating System written with Mono

Languages

There are a couple of languages available for Mono right now. Please refer to the Languages-Page for more information.