Mono Kick Start

Mono is an open-source implementation of the infrastructure upon which Microsoft's.NET Framework is build. Providing a compatible option with all of the technical features of.NET without the restrictive licensing and prohibitive costs that Microsoft imposes, the Mono project was initiated and co-financed by Ximian Corporation for the development of an open-source version of.NET Framework for Linux/Unix and Windows platforms (Mac OS X support will be added).Mono will allow cross-platform programming and operating of.NET compatible applications. Experts see the presence of a Unix-compatible version as decisive for the success of.NET. Mono Kick Start is a practical introduction to Mono and.NET compatible application programming with Mono. After a classically structured crash-course on the C# language and Mono's own compiler, the authors reach down deeper to subjects like threads, network programming, security, database interaction, XML, and more. A comprehensive practical section shows you how to set-up Web applications with Mono, how GUIs can be programmed using GTK, and how applications written with.NET can be operated in the Mono framework.Schonig, Hans-Jurgen is the author of 'Mono Kick Start' with ISBN 9780672325793 and ISBN 0672325799.