Brahma on Mono
I’m very excited to see that Ananth, the author of the Brahma LINQ-to-GPU provider, now has it running on Mono using OpenGL.
More …ASP.NET Completion and MonoDevelop Debugger Packages
All the basic ASP.NET code completion features I wanted to get into MonoDevelop are now essentially complete and working with the new code completion database subsystem that Mike Kruger has written to replace our old one.
More …Vi modes in MonoDevelop
I’ve recently added simple vi modes emulation to MonoDevelop. It’s been a relatively quick and easy hack, though I’m pretty sure I’m now running a deficit of free time. I’m not actually a vi user, but I’ve been hearing from several of our users that they miss vi navigation and commands.
More …Hack Week: OGRE.NET Packaging
Last week was my second Hack Week at Novell. Massi and I had been intending to hack on a demo for embedding Mono in games, but realised that the overhead of bootstrapping a stable working environment would most likely frustrate our efforts to get something within the week.
More …Web Application Projects in MD and VWD
I’m very pleased that Visual Web Developer Express 2008 has now gained Web Application project support in Service Pack 1. This means that MonoDevelop users will be able to share ASP.NET projects with VWD developers.
More …Demoing Mono in Games
I’m trying to plan some examples of using Mono in game development, so that we have time to get together some solid demos and samples for next year’s GDC. I’m primarily interested in showing how Mono fits into the existing games development ecosystem; we don’t really have an XNA-like story for developing fully managed games in Mono at this point.
More …Building an IDE Navigation History
MonoDevelop has a code navigation history. When you switch views, or jump around between definitions, it logs the history, and you can browse back and forth like a web browser. However, it has some major issues – the history it generates is unintuitive and erratic. It seems like it should be a really useful feature, but in practice is frustrating to use, so I recently decided to give it an overhaul.
More …Colour Completion
When I initially wrote the ASP.NET code completion, I added support for completing attribute values for enums and bools. More generalised completion using TypeConverter.GetStandardValues isn’t so easy, since I don’t want to load arbitrary types into the MD process, so I skipped this for now. However, I did special-case System.Drawing.Color, since it’s used a lot.
More …Whales, Beavers and Snakes (Oh My!)
My family is visiting me here in Boston, and over the Independence Day weekend we toured Western Massachusetts for a few days. I captured some interesting photos. Having finally convinced myself to purchase some nice lenses for my SLR, I am particularly pleased with this haul.
More …Progress on ASP.NET Source Editing
I have been making good progress on ASP.NET source editing, as evidenced by the following screenshot. Yes, that is code folding, error underlining, and a path bar.
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