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I think they want .Net 2.0 compatibility first.

I think they want .Net 2.0 compatibility first.

Hmmm. It really does depend on what is meant by .Net 2.0 compatiblity, because you can go on trying to achieve that for years.

Well, there's been an advance in the Winforms area, and it's planned to have most the api done for the 1.2 release. However, you can try the current status checking out the code from the mono svn.

Carlos.

Like most things in the free software world nothing comes without work. According to http://www.mfconsulting.com/blog/archives/000128.html if the community wants winforms support then they need to help test it.

So go and find a windows form application, download mono and winforms, and test it out! Submit bug reports and comments in the appropriate places and be positive!

Good things take time. In doing the above it made me realise, holy s$%t thats an amazing piece of coding which allows me to pick a random .net app from codeproject.com and have it run, unmodified, on linux!

Usually when I go find a winforms app to test in mono - it's NOT winforms support that is lacking - but usually something else. Many of the apps I try to run under mono just simply die with no error in the console (even with verbose and debug output on)

Mono is still missing some non-winforms support that prevents many VStudio-built apps from running properly.

But otherwise, I love the project, and I try out new versions when they're available!

Instead of using the Microsoft WinForms API to develop applications that run great on windows and okay on linux. Why not use Gtk# to develop applications that run great on linux and okay on windows? Really gtk# is as cross platform as Windows.Forms will be when it works completely in mono.