[Mono-list] Platforms Mono will support?

[Bob Smith]

I dont know too much about the subject really, but there's a namespase
like Microsoft.Language.VB that has things like arrays that work better
with VB. (I Think) Have a look at MS's api dox if your interested.

On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Stephen Homer wrote:

> Ah I see, so anything that doesn't use VBCodeCompiler should run okay or
> is there something else, I don't see that this class would be used
> particularly often and having the rest of the support there could be
> useful.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Smith [mailto:bob@thestuff.net]
> Sent: 15 September 2002 02:19
> To: Stephen Homer
> Cc: mono-list@ximian.com
> Subject: RE: [Mono-list] Platforms Mono will support?
>
> VB.NET uses a few additional classes that are not in the System
> Namespace.
> They will need to be implemented before the VB.NET programs that use
> them
> will run properly.
>
> On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Stephen Homer wrote:
>
> > I'm a little confused here, what exactly does a VB.NET runtime need to
> > support, all the documentation I've seen for the common runtime seems
> to
> > say that c# and vb.net are compiled to IL which is indistinguishable
> and
> > that both languages are using exactly the same class libraries.
> >
> > What did I miss?
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mono-list-admin@ximian.com [mailto:mono-list-admin@ximian.com]
> On
> > Behalf Of G.Kumaraguru
> > Sent: 14 September 2002 21:27
> > To: mono-list@ximian.com
> > Subject: RE: [Mono-list] Platforms Mono will support?
> >
> >
> >  As a VB6 Developer myself, I find VB.NET simply not interesting than
> > learning C#.
> >  It would be worthwhile to concentrate on efforts to run mono on
> > different architecture than implementing VB.NET.
> >
> >  Also, Microsoft might find issues with mono having a VB.NET compiler
> as
> > it is still their proprietary language(Not an ECMA standard unlike C#
> > and ECMA script.)
> >
> >  It would be a huge risk. Microsoft can change the VB.NET language
> > syntax any time they want. You would have to catch up with it if you
> > want it to be usable.
> >
> >  Developing a CLI-Compliant language that's based on Basic is a
> > different thing than to create an exact copy of VB.NET.
> >
> >  In any case what attracts people to VB.NET is the RAD GUI Designer.
> If
> > we have one such thing for mono C#, the problem is solved.
> >
> >
> >  Regards
> >  Kumaraguru
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Mono-list maillist  -  Mono-list@ximian.com
> > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Mono-list maillist  -  Mono-list@ximian.com
> > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
> >
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Mono-list maillist  -  Mono-list@ximian.com
> http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
>