Mono 3.0.12 supports portable Class Libraries

Mono 3.0.12 was released on December 12, June 19. For cross-platform developers, the support for portable class libraries may be the most important change in this version. This technology enables a DLL to support. net, Windows Store, Windows Phone, Silverlight, IOS, and Android. For more information about Portable class libraries, see an article in The msdn magazine.ArticleIntroduction to migrating old. Net libraries to the latest target platform

Mono 3 directly provides support for the new version of Entity Framework 6. Users who use Linux will be very happy to reduce the cost of product servers. Entity Framework was open-source in last July and was included in mono a month later. Currently, WCF supports cookies, reducing the burden of sending session data from a browser.

The improvements made by sgen are somewhat unexpected, and now support returning memory to the operating system. On the surface, sgen does not need to return the memory to the operating system, even if the application no longer needs all the memory allocated. This may not be a problem for most applications, but it may be frustrating if the application only occasionally requires a large amount of memory and only takes a few minutes.

Another feature that has been ignored for a long time is the support for weakreference <t>. This feature is added to the intermediate build version 3.0.8. Although rarely used directly, it is very important for framework designers.

For OSX users, Mono officially supports MacOS X mavericks and fixes the problem of llvm's loadable module. For more information, see the release notes of Mono 3.x on the project website.