Mono Project is an Open Source implementation of the various ECMA and .NET framework technologies for Unix, Mac OS X, and Windows. The project includes a compiler, a class library, and a CLI runtime engine.
This is the first release where ASP.NET 2 is considered complete (with the exception of WebParts that are still missing). 1,000 new APIs have been implemented. Shared memory can now be disabled. There is a major ASP.NET performance boost, the beginning of C# 3.0, the new Mono.DataConvert class, many 2.0 Windows.Forms improvements, the start of 3.5 APIs (System.Core), COM support for Callable Wrappers, the 2.0 Socket API, and a Solaris/AMD-64 port. VB can now be used with ASP.NET.
