Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 22nd Feb 2007 16:55 UTC
Mono Project Windows developers can now port Visual Basic applications to Linux without modifying their code, using an open source project backed by Novell. The Mono project has built a compiler that lets developers code using Visual Basic inside Visual Studio or other preferred tools environments and run the Visual Basic code on non-Windows platforms without the time and cost of modification.
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RE[3]: No News Here
by sigzero on Fri 23rd Feb 2007 02:29 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: No News Here"
sigzero
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2006-01-03

Are you kidding? COM *was° a nightmare.

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RE[4]: No News Here
by jayson.knight on Fri 23rd Feb 2007 02:32 in reply to "RE[3]: No News Here"
jayson.knight Member since:
2005-07-06

Agreed, but compared to something like CORBA? *shudders*

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