Yesterday, I went to the Mono meeting. Miguel and his crew were not prepared at all. The room was too small (that's a good sign though), the projector didn't work with two of the laptops, and Miguel ended up doing Q&A for two hours, only showing glimpses of the applications he wanted to demonstrate. I left before the end. I wanted to talk with Miguel, but I guess I'll use the email channel.

I've always been curious about Mono, because I would feel great proud seeing the software I conceived and developed being run on more and more computers. It's not because I'm a Linux advocate. I'm a "liberty-of-choice" advocate. I used to be a Windows developer (WIN32, COM). I'm now a .NET developer, whatever the platform. Why would I complain on seeing Xceed Zip for .NET work on Linux?

Tags: PDC05

A new Mono release today! As usual, I uninstall the previous release, install the new one, and test a few Xceed Zip for .NET console samples. Works perfectly!

But today I decided to try my Xceed FileSystem-based Command Prompt under Mono. Wow! Everything works almost perfectly. Zip, Ftp, Ram drive. Only a glitch with the Isolated Storage. This sample uses Mentalis.org's ConsoleAttributes library to customize the look and feel of the console. It works perfectly well with Mono (on Windows).

Any Mono users out there using Xceed products?