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Today I implemented an oft-requested feature for MonoDevelop: making the code completion and info tooltips transparent when the Control key is held down. This enables you to take a look at the code that the window’s obscuring, without dismissing the popup.
More …Here’s a quick summary of interesting things from the past few months that I haven’t blogged. Unfortunately I can’t give each topic the time it deserves, but I think that’s better than not mentioning them at all.
More …Unfortunately, I have blogged very little in recent months. I shall follow this post with a summary of the things I’ve skipped blogging, but for now, I offer up the following tantalising screenshot by way of apology:
Now that MonoDevelop 1.0 is on the verge of shipping, I have begun to plan the parser that will underpin the ASP.NET code completion and visual designer in upcoming versions of MonoDevelop. During a discussion with our ASP.NET expert Marek, I found out about an obscure ASP.NET feature that currently causes problems for Mono’s ASP.NET parser, and is entirely counterintuitive to anyone with any XML knowledge.
More …So far, all five completed tasks for the Mono GHOP have been MonoDevelop -related. I’m really pleased with the amount of interest we’ve had so far. I’d like to thank our hard-working students and mentors, and the wonderful people at Google’s Open-Source Program Office who put this contest together.
More …The Google Highly Open Participation (GHOP) contest has been running for a couple of weeks now, and the Mono Project has seen a fair bit of action. Sadly we’ve only had five completed tasks, with a couple more almost done. On a lot of the claimed tasks, many of the students and mentors have been slow to act, busy with real life work.
More …Anonymous delegates are incredibly useful, especially in that they can “capture” variables from a parent scope. Used within a single thread, they are very easy to understand. However, if you’re using them to pass data across threads, you need to understand how the variable capture works.
More …It’s a bad idea to mess with the packaged version of Mono on your Linux distro by installing another version of Mono on top of it or into another of your distro’s standard prefixes such as /usr/local. Your distro’s developers, testers and packagers have tested the packaged version of Mono to make sure that it works with the various applications that depend on it, such as MonoDevelop, Tomboy, F-Spot, Beagle and Banshee. In addition, you’re likely to end up with unusual errors due to mismatched bits and pieces interacting in unpredictable ways.
More …Hot on the heels of Lluis’s MonoDevelop 1.0 Beta 2 announcement, I’d like to announce the availability of frequent builds of MonoDevelop from SVN trunk, packaged for openSUSE 10.3. If you’d like to get the latest and greatest bug fixes and features but don’t want to build MD yourself, head over to my openSUSE Build Service Sandbox..
More …I recently added support for GtkSourceView 2 to MonoDevelop, and it can be enabled with the “–enable-gtksourceview2” configure switch. Unfortunately the Boo Binding and the Database Addin depend on GtkSourceView# directly, and aren’t compatible with the API changes in 2.0.
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