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Preface
About this document
Contributing
Target audience

PART 1 - Introduction

CHAPTER 1 - Mono

• 1.1 What is .NET?
• 1.2 What is Mono?

CHAPTER 2 Architecture

• 2.1 .NET Framework Architecture
• 2.2 Mono Implementation
• 2.3 Comparing Mono and the .NET Framework
• 2.4 Mono enabled platforms

PART 2 - Installing Mono

CHAPTER 3 Getting Started

• 3.1 Installation overview & considerations
• 3.2 Choosing an Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

CHAPTER 4 Installation

• 4.1 Linux
• 4.2 Windows
• 4.3 MacOS X
• 4.4 FreeBSD

CHAPTER 5 Configuring the IDE

• 5.1 Emacs
• 5.2 Eclipse
• 5.3 #Develop

PART 3 - Using Mono

CHAPTER 6 Runtime Environment

• 6.1 Introduction
• 6.2 Using Mono
• 6.3 Using Mint

CHAPTER 7 C# & VB Compiler

• 7.1 Introduction
• 7.2 Using the C# compiler
• 7.3 Using the VB.NET compiler

CHAPTER 8 Assembler & Disassembler

• 8.1 Introduction
• 8.2 Mono Disassembler
• 8.3 Mono Assembler

CHAPTER 9 Other Tools

• 9.1 Useful tools: NUnit, NAnt, and NGen
• 9.2 MonoDoc
• 9.3 The Mono debugger

PART 4 - Developing Applications with Mono

CHAPTER 10 Mono programming languages

• 10.1 C#
• 10.2 Basic.NET

CHAPTER 11 Streams & Files

• 11.1 Introduction
• 11.2 Read / Write Textfiles
• 11.3 Read / Write Binary Files

CHAPTER 12 Collections / Dynamical Arrays

• 12.1 The ArrayList
• 12.2 BitArray

CHAPTER 13 Math

• 13.1 Collections
• 13.2 Text
• 13.3 RegularExpressions

CHAPTER 14 Others

• 14.1 Console Class
• 14.2 Enviroment Information
• 14.3 Controlling the Garbage Collector
• 14.4 Text
• 14.5 RegularExpressions

PART 5 - Using advanced technologies

CHAPTER 15 Threading

• 15.1 Introduction
• 15.2 Start & Stop threads
• 15.3 Syncronisation

CHAPTER 16 Remoting support in Mono

• 16.1 Introduction
• 16.2 Remoting tutorial
• 16.3 Examples
• 16.4 References

CHAPTER 17 Component Interoperability

• 17.1 Windows COM
• 17.2 Gnome Bonobo

CHAPTER 18 XML

• 18.1 Introduction
• 18.2 XPath tutorial
• 18.3 Xml DOM (XmlDocument)
• 18.4 Xsl transformations

CHAPTER 19 ADO.NET

• 19.1 Introduction
• 19.2 Databases supported by Mono
• 19.3 Programming with ADO.NET
• 19.4 Tools
• 19.5 Code Examples

PART 6 - Developing GUI Applications with Mono

CHAPTER 20 System.Windows.Forms

• 20.1 Introduction
• 20.2 Cross-platformness
• 20.3 S.W.F Tutorial

CHAPTER 21 GNOME.NET - A much needed room to breathe

• 21.1 Introduction
• 21.2 Installation
• 21.3 GNOME.NET Tutorials
  • Gtk#
  • Gnome#
  • Glade#
  • GConf#
  • Gda#
  • Gnome-db#
  • GStreamer#
  • Rsvg#
• 21.4 Same Gnome - a Case
• 21.5 GNOME.NET Documentation
• 21.6 GNOME.NET FAQ

CHAPTER 22 QT#

• 22.1 Introduction
• 22.2 Installation
• 22.3 C# bindings
• 22.4 Qt# Documentation
• 22.5 QT# FAQ

PART 7 - Mono Web technology

CHAPTER 23 Creating ASP.NET WebPages

• 23.1 Introduction
• 23.2 Comparing ASP.NET to other WebPage technologies
• 23.3 Installation
• 23.4 Programming with ASP.NET
• 23.5 Programming for mobile devices

CHAPTER 24 Creating ASP.NET Web Services

• 24.1 Introduction
• 24.2 What is a WebService?
• 24.3 Introduction to SOAP
• 23.4 The Mono/ASP.NET SOAP implementation

PART 8 - Misc

CHAPTER 25 Embedding Mono

• 25.1 Embedding in C
• 25.2 Embedding in Perl

CHAPTER 25 Cross Platform Development

• 26.1 Introduction
• 26.2 Fast Cross-platform GUI
• 26.3 10 rules to be cross-platform and .NET compatible

APPENDICES

• A Code Samples used in the document
• B Sample Applications
• C Presentations
• D Recommened Reading
• E Links to other Resources
• F FAQ
• G Ecma Standards
• H License
• I Credits