Moonlight:
Silverlight on Linux.
Miguel de Icaza
miguel@novell.com

Getting here.

Ximian: early history
Ximian: Linux Desktop Startup founded in 1999
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“fill the gaps”
Develop missing pieces (and applications).

Mono Project
Mono: .NET on Unix.
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Open Source implementation.
Better Developer Tools for Linux developers.
Allow Windows developers to port to Linux:
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Bring expertise.
No need to learn new languages/APIs.
No need to rewrite in Java/C++.

Silverlight, in 3 bullet points.
WPF/E at PDC
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Cute.
WPF/E at Mix 06
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Still cute.
Silverlight 1.1 at Mix 07
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Awesome, and in our domain.

Mix 07.
Interest at Mix 07
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Journalist quote.
Marc Jalabert's “Can you demo it in 3 weeks?”
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Start work on May 31st.
Remix 07 in Paris, France, June 21st.
Microsoft/Novell interoperability framework.
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Microsoft Opening Up.
Open source efforts inside the company.
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DLR, IronPython, IronRuby and many more.
Opening up formats, protocols.
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Open Specification Promise (OOXML, WS-*)
Scott Guthrie, web guy in charge of .NET.
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Bob Muglia's interop initiative with Novell.
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Sam Ramji's group.
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Microsoft/Novell agreement.
Microsoft to provide:
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Media Pack for all Moonlight users on Linux.
Regression test suites.
Complete specifications for implementation.
Novell to:
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Deliver a 100% compatible Moonlight.
Support it on all major Linux
distributions/platforms.

Moonlight

Moonlight Today

Moonlight Roadmap.
Previews available now:
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http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight
No media yet.
Moonlight 1.0:
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Available in June
Moonlight 2.0:
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Previews by the end of the summer.
Final release shortly after MS Silverlight 2

mopen command tool.
mopen launches xaml files from the desktop
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Applications can be contained in directories
Pure XAML or XAML + managed code.
Similar to MacOS X “open”
Desklets: window-less XAML applications.
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Similar to Widgets, Gadgets.

Original Moonlight Core

Moonlight with MS Media Pack

Moonlight Directions Today
Complete/ship 1.0
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Integration of MediaPack.
Complete our media pipeline.
Improve performance (complex scenes, drivers)
Parallel work on 2.0:
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VM changes developed in parallel.

Silverlight Class Libraries.
Core Libraries: Subset of 3.5 .NET Libraries.
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Most are a straight subset.
A few one have different class hierarchies.
Silverlight APIs:
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Draw inspiration from WPF.
Almost no code reuse possible.
DLR and DLR-based code is open source.
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Reuse existing Silverlight 2 controls.
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2.1 class libraries
2.0 2.1
mscorlib mscorlib
Add new
code from2.1
2.0
Mono Linker
mscorlib

Moonlight: APIs today
Moonlight 1.0 Moonlight 2.0
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Tracks SL 1.0 Track upcoming 2.0
No Mono. Lots of changes
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Testing new pipeline Only started on 3.5
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Moonlight 1.1 LINQ
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Implements SL 1.1 Others
Few missing features Missing new work.
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Development frozen

Moonlight SDK
Tools to develop Silverlight apps on Unix.
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Compiler (smcs)
Class libraries.
On Linux, MacOS X, Solaris
IDE
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Early Prototype of Silverlight designer written.
Bringing our MonoDevelop IDE to MacOS X.

Wishes.
Work with other browser vendors:
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Opera, WebKit and Konqueror
Support BSD and custom Linux variants:
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Ship the binary codecs for those systems.
Use Moonlight on OSX for designer.
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Mono

Mono.
Our implementation of the CLR:
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VM, JIT, AppDomains, GC, Remoting, etc.
A re-implementation of the class libraries
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Reflection, XML, etc
ASP.NET, Web Services, ADO.NET
Compilers for most .NET languages
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C# 3.0, VB.NET
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Third party compilers
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Overall Progress.
2.0 mostly complete:
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Core, ASP.NET and ADO.NET are done
Windows.Forms the only piece on hold.
3.5 the actual heir to 2.0:
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C# 3, LINQ, XLINQ mostly done
Have not started on DLINQ
3.0 add-on:
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Only WCF in progress, no WPF at this point.

Microsoft's Open Source Code.
Reuse Microsoft-produced code:
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ASP.NET AJAX
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Client side libraries.
ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit.
Dynamic Language Runtime
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IronPython, IronRuby.

Visual Studio Deployment
Mono is binary compatible with .Net
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Same .DLL and .EXE file formats.
Implements the same APIs.
Winforms or ASP.NET apps
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Demo

Mono Migration Analysis
Demo