Open source Mono framework brings C# to iPhone and Wii

"Mono, an open source implementation of .NET runtime, is bringing Microsoft's development technologies to some unexpected places, including the iPhone, Android, and the Wii.

According to Novell's lead Mono developer, Miguel de Icaza, several applications in Apple's App Store are powered by Mono. This might come as a bit of a surprise to those familiar with Apple's highly restrictive application inclusion policies, because the company strictly prohibits developers from using interpreted languages and third-party runtime environments—a constraint that largely rules out technologies like .NET and Java."

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C# 3.0 Features

The C# language is getting more good looking than ever before. C# 3.0 is simple the definition of beauty. The new C# compiler is doing a lot of work for us so let us see how we can use it start using these beautiful features.

My Top 5 Favorite New C# 3.0/.NET 3.5 Framework Features

Partial Methods, Automatic Properties, Extension Methods, Object Initializers and System.TimeZoneInfo Class.

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