Mono Development

 

When dot net framework arrived in the year 2000, the expectation was that it will have cross platform support. But, after more than a decade in existence, it still lags behind when it comes to support for operating systems other than Windows. Xamarin started Mono as a small project for two main reasons:
      a) to build cross platform applications for the dot net framework,
      b) to bring better development tools to Linux developers.
As Mono became widely accepted, Xamarin decided to make use of the open source community to develop its framework. What started as a small open source project started to grow widely with help from thousands of contributors. Today, Mono applications can be run on Unix variants such as Linux, BSD and on Mac platforms such as iOS, Mac OS X and on Windows as well as game consoles like PlayStation 3, Wii,and Xbox 360. This makes Mono the framework of choice to develop cross-platform applications.

In short, Mono is a .NET development platform for building cross platform applications. Mono developers can build robust applications with rich clients, web services, server-side applications and deploy them on Linux, Netware, Mac OSX, Microsoft Windows and even on Game Consoles.

 

 

The Key advantage of developing applications using Mono is that developers trained on Visual Studio can stay within their preferred IDE, while using their hands on experience, object-oriented programming skills and .NET code, libraries and tools, as well as C# programming knowledge, to create Linux based applications. The Mono project has a very active development community and acts as a resource repository for both developer tools and infrastructure that is needed to run .NET client and server applications.

Mono has lots of .NET framework class library that is well written and tested. These libraries can be used to reduce development time. The vast number of classes come in handy for a variety of common programming tasks as well as some special ones. The library includes most common data structures, cryptographic libraries, XML, and Web services support.

We'd be glad to help you with your cross-platform application development using Mono.