While Silverlight is promising the future, Tao is already shipping. The Tao Framework claims to be a "collection of bindings to facilitate cross-platform media application development utilizing the .NET and Mono platforms." Eleven APIs are exposed to .NET/Mono through Tao bindings including OpenGL, PhysicsFS, and the Lua scripting system
Other third-party APIs supported by Tao include:
- Cg 1.2.1
- DevIL 1.6.8 RC2
- FreeGLUT 2.4.0
- GLFW 2.5.0
- ODE 0.6
- OpenAL 1.0
- SDL 1.2.11
- Windows API
The release version of Tao 2.0 is now available.