[Mono-list] namespace System.Windows.Forms cannot be found

[Danny Brugman]

Hi Armand,

I imagined it would be something as simple as this. Indeed, I did
not reference any assembly on the command line. It now compiles
perfectly, but it won't run - but that's another issue.

Many thanks!

Danny

Armand du Plessis wrote:
> What is the command line you used to compile the application?
> 
> Did you reference the System.Windows.Forms assembly when you compiled? 
> 
> The command line option :  -reference:ASS     References the specified
> assembly (-r:ASS) 
> 
> hth,
> 
> Armand
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mono-list-admin@lists.ximian.com
> [mailto:mono-list-admin@lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Danny Brugman
> Sent: 13 April 2005 11:37 AM
> To: mono-list@lists.ximian.com
> Subject: [Mono-list] namespace System.Windows.Forms cannot be found
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This might be a real beginners-question, but I couldn't find an answer
> anywhere on the internet, nor in the gnome documentation / Windows Forms
> home page.
> 
> Issue is that I try to compile a very simple hello-world winforms
> application (Linux, Fedora FC3). I installed mono 1.1.6 + winforms rpm + all
> required dependencies (libgdiplus, cairo, etc), and I see a
> System.Windows.Forms directory in '/usr/lib/mono/gac/'.
> 
> After invoking mcs I get the following error:
> 
> hello.cs(2) error CS0234: The type or namespace name `Windows' could not be
> found innamespace `System'
> 
> Could someone please help me out?
> 
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Danny Brugman
> 
> 
> BTW Here is the source:
> 
> using System;
> using System.Windows.Forms;
> using System.Drawing;
> 
> class MyForm : Form
> {
>    MyForm ()
>    {
>      Text = "My First MWF App";
>    }
> 
>    protected override void OnPaint (PaintEventArgs e)
>    {
>      e.Graphics.DrawString ("Hello world", Font,
>          new SolidBrush (Color.Black), ClientRectangle);
>    }
> 
>    static void Main ()
>    {
>      Application.Run (new MyForm ());
>    }
> }
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