[Mono-list] visualBasic.Net

[Ben Hutchison]

 so will 
> there be a 
> vb support in mono, or is there already a vb support? 

I don't think there is current support for VB compilation. I believe the
core effort on the language side is C#.

> i know there are millions of vb-programmers like me, who 
> would like to 
> port there applications to linux, without the need to learn a 
> perfectly 
> new language and need to rewrite hundreds of thousands of lines.

You have that capability right now.

Unless you are intending to use Linux- or Windows-specific APIs (perhaps
Windows.Forms?), there is no need either for a Mono VB compiler, nor a
port process, to run your applications on Linux. (If you are using OS
specific APIs, no VB compiler will help you anyway.)

That's a key benefit of .Net: your Windows VB apps compile down to CIL
(using MS compiler), just like C# does, which can run under Mono on
linux, as is.

Ben