More ASP.Net 2.0 features missing from Mono 1.1.13.4

Posted on March 8, 2006 by Michael Schurter

After stripping out the SiteMap Provider, Membership Provider, and Role Provider, I discovered a few more ASP.Net 2.0 features that are missing from Mono 1.1.13.4:

  1. System.Web.UI.WebControls.BulletedList:Render is not implemented. That seems like an easy place for me to learn Mono hacking! We’ll see what happens…
  2. meta:resourcekey attributes aren’t recognized which seems strange to me since usually open source projects have excellent I18N and L10N support.
  3. And another showstopper: Mono/XSP2 doesn’t seem to support automatically loading/compiling files from App_Code. I kind of suspected this was some magic on Visual Studio’s part, but hopefully its something Mono can still implement.
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  • Tyberius Prime

    Heya,

    have you had any success with a newer Mono version?
    The current SVN Head apperantly supports App_Code as well as App_GlobalResources & App_Localresources, but i’m stuck
    on meta:resourcekey as well…

    So long,
    Tyberius Prime

  • http://michael.susens-schurter.com/blog Michael Schurter

    @Tyberius:
    Unfortunately I switched jobs and no longer work on that project. I still follow Mono though, and I think meta:resourcekey would be the only blocker for running this application under Mono.

    For what its worth, Mono seems to be one of the fastest moving projects I’ve ever seen, so hopefully meta:resourcekey will be added soon. Have you tried posting to the mailing lists? They were always very helpful for me…