[Mono-devel-list] Can I use Microsoft's DLL's on the Win32 platform?

[Jordi Mas]

El dl 25 de 04 del 2005 a les 15:17 -0400, en/na Pete Gonzalez va
escriure:
> Hello,
> 
> I am just getting started with Mono on Windows XP.  I built a very simple 
> HelloWorld.exe using Visual Studio, then I clicked on the "Mono-1.1.6 
> Command Prompt" and typed "mono HelloWorld".  When my form appeared, the 
> GUI did not look quite right, which is a little surprising since it's just 
> an empty dialog box with a button.  :-)
> 
> The Mono Windows.Forms implementation obviously is still "under 
> construction," but since my target platform is Windows XP, I can just use 
> the real Microsoft libraries.  So I tracked down all the referenced 
> Microsoft DLL's and copied them to the same folder as HelloWorld.exe, so 
> that Mono will load them instead of its custom versions.  However, now my 
> application crashes with an exception:

Hi Pete!

Can you please log a bug in http://bugzilla.ximian.com including a copy
of the source code of the small example that you try to run? We will
look after the error. There is also a specific Windows Forms mailing
list if you want to talk  specifically of that namespace.

Thanks,

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