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I have to log into Windows XP (via Vmware) ..
and now you are all gonna shout “MONO” I bet
Visual Studio is a great program to work with. Even for C++ and stuff, although it will never replace my XCode and Objective-C
BTW have you looked into Portable.NET? It includes the Windows Forms or whatever they’re called which I don’t think mono has yet (correct me if I’m wrong please).
I haven’t looked at it yet but I shall thanks!
I just want to be able to edit the code in Linux not Windows XP and then compile the DLLs and upload it to the server.
I could set up Apache and mod_mono here to test and debug the application, but I am so bad at configuring things :S
Uploading and testing at the server should be ok – but I do not know if MONO compiled DLLs will run on IIS.
Also I am not sure MONO handles System.Data.SqlClient which is on my code.
And yes – Mono does not handle Windows.Forms fully yet, but they are trying their best to make it work with Cairo.
While at the same time speeding up and fixing Cairo itself.
No disrespect but I just get depressed when I have to log into Windows
Much like any avid Windows user would be if they had to suddenly have to use alien Linux at work.
“Uploading and testing at the server should be ok – but I do not know if MONO compiled DLLs will run on IIS.”
I think as long as you have the .Net framework it should work, but I don’t have a Windows system to test it on.
“Also I am not sure MONO handles System.Data.SqlClient which is on my code.”
At mono’s website (go-mono.org I think), they have lists of everything already implimented, I think Portable.NET (pnet) does too.
“No disrespect but I just get depressed when I have to log into Windows
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Ha that made me laugh. /me=Mac fan (have an iMac, iBook, iPod, Apple stickers on my car, etc)
At mono’s website (go-mono.org I think), they have lists of everything already implimented, I think Portable.NET (pnet) does too.
Yeah I had it checked they don’t – so can’t migrate my .NET work environment yet.
Still have to check pnet.
Ha that made me laugh. /me=Mac fan (have an iMac, iBook, iPod, Apple stickers on my car, etc)
Ok so you know the feeling then
Good news for the Mono guys.
And I like MWF, even if it’s Platform-bound – it’s very much fun to work with it …
If winforms code would be open, what would mono/pnet guys get from them? 10MB of [DllImport]’s?
Windows.Forms under windows is bindings. Both mono’s and pnet’s winforms are NOT bindings, so what would they get?
They would get the reference implementation and could look up things better than decompiling the original MWF from IL to C# (e.g. by using .NET Reflector) …