[Mono-list] Some recomendations please

Pedro Alves pedro.alvesjr at gmail.com
Mon Apr 3 22:05:49 EDT 2006


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2006/4/3, Adam Tauno Williams <adam at morrison-ind.com>:
>
> > Hi, I'm planning to start developing desktop applications on C# with
> MySQL
> > that can be run under Windows9x,2K,XP and under Linux too.
> > I've read about this Mono project, but downloads page says that it is
> only
> > for Windows 2000 or greater and I need something to run on a windows 98
> > machine.
>
> It appears that .NET is availble for Windows 98.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=262D25E3-F589-4842-8157-034D1E7CF3A3
>
> > I have a couple of questions about Mono before starting to develop and
> just
> > to check if this is suitable for me. Be patient, I'm a newbie in this.
> > 1. Is it possible to develop with Mono using a Windows 98 machine?
> > 2. Is it possible to run Mono applications using a Windows 98 machine?
>
> You can run .NET applications,  although I wouldn't be surprised if you
> bumped into things that didn't work.  If cygwin will install in Windows
> 98 I suppose at least some of Mono would run.
>
> > 3. On a client machine, is it possible to install only the mono runtime
> > instead the whole package that includes the compiler?
>
> Yes.
>
> > 4. I need to build reports. At this moment I don't know what to use to
> > generate reports. What can I use or what do you recommend for making
> > reports?
> > Just for the record, I've been programming in Java and using
> jasperreports
> > with iReport (report designer). I've been very happy with Java but I
> would
> > like to change to C# for many reasons.
>
> No idea, we use Jasper/iReport. :)  Nothing so far can approach them for
> functionality.  But it is easy to retrieve reports via HTTP from an
> OpenReports server from a .NET application.
>
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