Compatibility
The easiest way to describe what Mono currently supports is:
Everything in .NET 4.5 except WPF, WWF, and with limited WCF and limited ASP.NET 4.5 async stack.
Here is a slightly more detailed view, by .NET framework version:
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Implemented |
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Partially Implemented |
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Not Implemented |
.NET 4.5
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C# 5.0 - async support |
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Async Base Class Library Upgrade |
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MVC4 - Partial, no async features supported. |
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ASP.NET 4.5 Async Pipeline - Needs an parallel processing pipeline with async support, not done. |
.NET 4.0
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C# 4.0 |
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ASP.Net 4.0 |
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ASP.Net MVC 1, MVC 2 and MVC3 |
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System.Numerics |
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Managed Extensibily Framework - Shared with .NET via MS-PL license |
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Dynamic Language Runtime - Shared with .NET via MS-PL license |
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Client side OData - Shared with .NET via MS-PL license |
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EntityFramework - Available since Mono 2.11.3. |
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Parallel Framework and PLINQ |
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CodeContracts - API complete, partial tooling |
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Server-side OData - Depends on Entity Framework. |
.NET 3.5
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C# 3.0 |
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System.Core |
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LINQ |
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ASP.Net 3.5 |
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ASP.Net MVC |
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LINQ to SQL - Mostly done, but a few features missing |
.NET 3.0
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WCF - silverlight 2.0 subset completed |
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WPF - no plans to implement |
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WWF - Will implement WWF 4 instead on future versions of Mono. |
.NET 2.0
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C# 2.0 (generics) |
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Core Libraries 2.0: mscorlib, System, System.Xml |
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ASP.Net 2.0 - except WebParts |
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ADO.Net 2.0 |
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Winforms/System.Drawing 2.0 - does not support right-to-left |
.NET 1.1
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C# 1.0 |
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Core Libraries 1.1: mscorlib, System, System.Xml |
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ASP.Net 1.1 |
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ADO.Net 1.1 |
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Winforms/System.Drawing 1.1 |
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System.Transactions |
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System.Management - does not map to Linux |
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System.EnterpriseServices - deprecated |