Mono: A Developer's Notebook
by Edd Dumbill, Niel M. Bournstein

The unconfirmed error reports are from readers.  They have not yet been 
approved or disproved by the author or editor and represent solely the
opinion of the reader.

Here's a key to the markup:
        [page-number]: serious technical mistake
        {page-number}: minor technical mistake
        <page-number>: important language/formatting problem
        (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem
        ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification

This page was updated October 21, 2004.


UNCONFIRMED  errors and comments from readers: 


{2}  3rd paragraph, under Linux;

baseurl=http://www.mono2.ximian.com/archive/1.0/fedora-1-i386/
should read:
http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.0.5/fedora-1-i386/


[6]  mint heading;
For the 3 trivial programs I tried, using "mint aprogram.exe" is faster than using
"mono aprogram.exe". I wonder if this can be clarified. I would think that mint would
always be slower.


{25}  Example after 1st paragraph;
The first part of the example is missing a closing brace.

 namespace OReilly {
   namespace DevelopersNotebook {
     public class HelloWorld {
       ...
     }
   }

should have an extra } at the end:

 namespace OReilly {
   namespace DevelopersNotebook {
     public class HelloWorld {
       ...
     }
   }
 }


{39}  1st paragraph;
There is no while loop in the code shown on page 37.


{48}  1st paragraph;
AssemblykeyFile
should read:
AssemblyKeyFile


{192}  4th paragraph;
The 3rd paragraph describes "runtime serialization" as a way to serialize an object,
possibly to a binary format, and "XML serialization", as a way to serialize an object
to an arbitrary XML format.

The 4th paragraph says:
"In this lab, we show you how to use runtime serialziation to serialize and object
instance to XML..."

This sentence has two issues:
1: The example uses XML serialization, not runtime serialization.  The example uses
System.Xml.Serialization; runtime serialization would use
System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap (binary and SOAP being the current
runtime serializers).

2: "...to serialize and object instance..." should to "...to serialize an object
instance...".  That is, s/and/an/.