Worried (was RE: [Mono-list] Platforms Mono will support?)

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Hello all,

I just joined this list in hope I'll find here some help in porting my IRC bot 
written in VB.NET to Mono but what you just said worries me.

I removed all dependency to the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace in my program.  
Wouldn't that be enough to make it work with Mono? (Taking apart the 
predictable little problems with unfinished classes in Mono)

En réponse à Bob Smith <bob@thestuff.net>:

> 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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