[Mono-list] Windows.Forms and C++

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> I recently saw a write-up that indicated the next release of Visual
> Studio .NET (due out in April 2003) would have support for Windows.Forms
> with Visual C++. Since you are porting Windows.Forms as part of Mono, I
> am wondering if you plan on including support for Visual C++ as well? I
> would like to be able to author Visual C++ GUI applications under mono
> using Windows.Forms.

We are not likely going to produce a C++ compiler, but we should run
code compiled with Microsoft's C++ compiler.

I do not know of anyone who might have tried it, and we certainly should
try to feed C++ code through the VM to make sure we are fully compliant.