Miguel, Thanks for the suggestions. I'll try to incorperate these suggestion to form a new toc.
If we'll use this toc to start with something does anybody have some ideas of putting up a collection of html files in which everybody can add content? On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 02:40, Miguel de Icaza wrote: > The TOC is really good, here are a couple more of ideas on how to have a > bigger impact with the documentation: > > * Focus on Mono-specific bits first (or things that have emerged > in some way or other from Mono), then on generic .NET > components. That's the idea, Chapter 1 and 2 are only introduction stuff + high-level overview /concepts (big picture) so that readers can understand how everything works and how Mono and .Net relate. Interesting for both Mono and .NET developers > > Rationale: there are plenty of books, tutorials, quickstarts, > and training courses for the generic components of .NET > yup > For example, I would leave a C# tutorial out, because there are many of > those. It can still be done in the future, but we would not be giving > enough attention to the unique elements of Mono (what is likely the > information that people will be looking for). "C# tutorial" are you refering to PART 4 of the doc? > > Many of the Mono-born class libraries can be used in .NET and in Rotor > [1] > > A few technologies that would be useful to document as part of this: > > * The various database providers. This could be incorperated in CHAPTER 15 ADO.NET in Mono. > > The System.Data hackers from Mono have created plenty of new > providers that are useful both to Mono and .NET, it would be > nice to have those new features documented. > > * Developing applications with Gtk#. Sounds like a great chapter > > Gtk# is something that does not exist in the Windows world, so > its a great candidate to document. > > * API documentation for new Mono-born assemblies. > > * Debugging with the Mono debugger. > > * Using Mono to develop Unix applications. > Focusing on the development of applications for Unix using > Mono, which is a new universe for developers coming with a > Windows background. sounds like new a part. > > > * The various tools used during the build process for Mono > developers, tricks for programmers. > > * Deployment issues, integration with Makefiles > (automake/autoconf/nant). CHAPTER 21 DEPLOYING APPLICATIONS I think ;-) > > * Using the debugging interfaces to extract symbolic information > from programs at runtime. felix > -- __________________________________ [ ] | :: felix faassen | | :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | :: http://www.xs4all.nl/~flixz | [__________________________________] _______________________________________________ Mono-docs-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-docs-list
