Developer:	Rhys Weatherly (Southern Storm Software Pty), Klaus Treichel, Thong Nguyen, Gopal V, Norbert Bollow
Latest release:	0.8.0 / March, 2007
OS:	Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX, Microsoft Windows, others
Genre:	System platform
License:	GPL and LGPL
Website:	dotgnu.org

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The main goal of the DotGNU project and the Microsoft Shared Source CLI (Rotor) code base is to provide a class library that is 100% Common Language Specification compliant. In contrast, the main goal of another free software/open source CLI implementation, the Mono Project, is to provide 100% compatible class libraries for both the CLS specification and with the class library currently released by Microsoft for their proprietary version of .NET, which the DotGNU project claims is not currently fully ECMA CLS compliant. ^{[citation needed]} The Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure (SSCLI), previously codenamed Rotor, is Microsofts shared source implementation of the CLI, the core of . ... Visual overview of the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) The Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) is an open specification developed by Microsoft that describes the executable code and runtime environment that form the core of the Microsoft . ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... Mono is a project led by Novell, Inc. ... Proprietary software is software with restrictions on copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ... ECMA is short for European Computer Manufacturers Association (Name of Ecma International until 1994) East Coast Music Awards European Carton Makers Association[1] ECMAScript This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Main development projects

Portable.NET

DotGNU Portable.NET, an implementation of the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI), includes software to compile and run Visual Basic .NET, C#, and C applications that use the .NET base class libraries, XML, and Windows Forms. Portable.NET claims to support various CPUs including x86, PPC, ARM, and SPARC. DotGNU Portable . ... Visual overview of the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) The Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) is an open specification developed by Microsoft that describes the executable code and runtime environment that form the core of the Microsoft . ... Visual Basic . ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... C is a general-purpose, block structured, procedural, imperative computer programming language developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system. ... This API is a part of . ... x86 or 80x86 is the generic name of a microprocessor architecture first developed and manufactured by Intel. ... PowerPC is a RISC microprocessor architecture created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM. Originally intended for personal computers, PowerPC CPUs have since become popular embedded and high-performance processors as well. ... Image:ARM-Cambridge. ... Sun UltraSPARC II Microprocessor Sun UltraSPARC T1 (Niagara 8 Core) SPARC (Scalable Processor Architecture) is a RISC microprocessor instruction set architecture originally designed in 1985 by Sun Microsystems. ...

phpGroupWare

phpGroupWare, a multi-user web-based GroupWare suite, which also serves to provide a collection of webservice components that can be accessed through XML-RPC so that can easily integrate them into webservice applications. phpGroupWare - formerly known as webdistro - is a multi-user groupware suite written in PHP. It provides about 50 web-based applications, as there are the Calendar, Addressbook, an advanced Projects manager, Todo List, Notes, Email, Newsgroup- and Headlines Reader, a Filemanager and many more Applications. ...

DGEE

DotGNU Execution Environment (DGEE), a webservice server. The DotGNU Execution Environment provides the core web service component of DotGNU and provides the functionality of accepting, validating, and satisfying web service requests. ...

Framework architecture

The Portable .NET class library seeks to provide facilities for application development. These are primarily written in C#, but because of the Common Language Specification they can be used by any .NET language. Like .NET, the class library is structured into Namespaces and Assemblies.^[1] It has additional top-level namespaces including Accessibility and DotGNU. In a typical operation, the Portable .NET compiler generates a Common Language Specification (CLS) image, as specified in chapter 6 of ECMA-335, and the Portable .NET runtime takes this image and runs it. Image File history File links 400px-DotNET_architecture_6. ... The Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) is an open specification developed by Microsoft that describes the executable code and runtime environment that form the core of the Microsoft . ...

Free software

DotGNU is particularly keen to point out that it is free software, and it sets out to ensure that all aspects of DotGNU minimize dependence on proprietary components, such as calls to Microsoft Windows' GUI code.

See also

• .NET

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External links

• Project homepage
• Article '2001 -- The Year When DotGNU Was Born'
• A 2003 interview with Norbert Bollow of DotGNU

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