Just in time for your holidays, we have baked a new version of MonoMac. As usual, installation is very easy, just follow these steps.

As for some stats: 224 developers downloaded the MonoMac 0.4 add-in for MonoDevelop in the previous release, not bad at all!

These are the changes since MonoMac 0.4

• API Documentation!
  • Built on JPobst's new documentation engine
  • There are mostly automatically generated stubs now
• New in CoreAnimation:
  • Layout managers
  • Constrained layout manager
  • CATextLayer can now set its font with the WeakFont property, or the SetFont () strong types.
• CoreGraphics:
  • CGAffineTransform.Invert () method to obtain the inverse of an affine transformation
• Foundation
  • NSObject.FromObject method automatically boxes .NET types into NSValue, NSString or NSNumber objects.
  • Convenience function to create NSArrays from object [] arrays and using the new NSObject boxing functionality.
  • New NSIndexSet convenience factory method and ToArray method
  • NSDictionary and NSMutableDictionary have convenience methods that take object [] arrays, and do the boxing automatically (using the new NSArray functionality described above)
• AppKit:
  • DoubleClick event on views that have support for double click actions (instead of using the DoubleAction selector + Target)
  • NSTableView has a new Source property that can be used to blend both Delegate and the table view data source into one (NSTableViewSource which combines NSTableViewDataSource and NSTableViewDelegate)
  • New: NSPredicate family of classes
  • New: NSRuleEditor
• AddressBook library:
  • We used to ship the source, but now it is included in the binary library.
• CoreImage:
  • New in this release.
• WebKit:
  • Many events that were previously only exposed as Objective-C style delegates are now proper C# events.
• Engine:
  • Improved methods with return structures
  • Improved string [] marshalling
  • Now with INativeObject marshalling

We have also updated the samples and added a few more.