[Mono-list] If mono is written in c# why would you need dll's.

Jonathan Stowe gellyfish@gellyfish.com
Wed, 15 May 2002 09:23:21 +0100 (BST)


On 14 May 2002, Michael Schwery wrote:

> I noticed on the ado.net web page it said you still need dll's to use
> ado.net. If you plan on just using c# and ado.net on linux will you need
> the dll's when the 1.0 version of mono is released.
>
> If mono is written in c# why would you need dll's.
>

I think it is referring to .NET managed DLLs (such as System.Data.dll)
which will be present on any platform.  Of course it could be a generic
reference to a Dynamically Loaded Library which would be a .dll on Windows
or .so on most unix like operating systems.

/J\
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