O'Reilly has published a book for developers interested in learning about the Mono development framework. “Mono: A Developer's Notebook,” by Edd Dumbill and Niel M. Bornstein, uses lab excercises, mini-projects and other task-oriented content to introduce programmers to the open source alternative to Microsoft's… .NET framework.

The task-oriented book covers acquiring, installing, and using the Mono components, including the Mono runtime, the class libraries, and the Mono C# compiler. It aims to provide readers with hands-on experience with Mono's modern programming language features, which include:

• A garbage-collected managed environment for running components safely and reliably
• Support for legacy components without compromising the managed capabilities
• An advanced Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler for fast code
• A cross-platform runtime and migration path for Windows developers moving to Linux
• Support for multiple programming languages -Excellent integration with unit testing techniques

A sample chapter, author bios, and a table of contents are available online, and the book can be ordered direct from O'Reilly for $36.95.

Mono is an open source cross-platform development framework acquired by Novell when it bought Ximian (formerly Helix Code) one year ago this month. The Mono project achieved its first release last month.

For more about the Mono Project, don't miss our extensive Mono and DotGNU Reading List.

 
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