[Mono-list] Cross platform development: VB.NET or C#

[Guenther Roith]

> Hi Guys,
>
> I'm developing an application on the Windows .NET platform and want to do
as
> much as possible up front to insure that it will run on Mono once it
becomes
> a more mature platform for ado.net and WinForms development.
>
> My question for the list is:  What can I do to insure that the migration
> will be as smooth as possible?  Should I use VB.NET or C# as the
development
> language?  Any other factors that I should consider or libraries I should
> avoid using?
>


You'll be able to use VB.NET.
Don't use

- System.EnterpriseServices (COM-Interoperability)
- Microsoft.Win32 (Registry, Windows Events)
- [System.Windows.Forms (I guess it will exist, but it will take some time)]
- P/invoke (DllImport) into native libs if the lib is not available on Linux

if someone knows other things please add.


Johannes