[Mono-winforms-list] Winforms and #develop on Linux

[Willem.Smit@sanlam.co.za]

>> I've been trying to get it to work for a while now, but it keeps boi=
ling
>> down to #develop needing the .net framework to be installed and the
>> framework refuses to be installed on a win95 machine (wine). Wine do=
es
have
>> an option to emulate windows versions other than win95, but their
emulation
>> doesn't fool the .net framework installer... #develop does give you =
the
>> option to use mono as it's build and execute runtime, but apparently=
 not
to
>> run on.

>I played with the .NET installer on Wine a few months ago. Although I
>got past that point, the installer kept hitting a problem and rolling
>back the install.

What did you do to get the installer to go past the initial OS check ?

>> And you're right it will be a great step, i'll chuck windows right o=
ut
the
>> door if that happens.

>Why? What's wrong with using GTK# and Glade for cross platform
>development?

Well, basically 1. I've never used GTK# and Glade and I know SWF. 2. I =
work
for a
MS buddy company and my superiors won't allow us to use non-standard st=
uff.

>I don't really understand what the big deal over SharpDevelop is.... i=
t
>will only generate SWF apps right? Which are not especially portable?
>And the Win32 widget toolkit is rather primitive in several aspects (n=
o
>containment based layout for instance, maybe SWF fixes this).

No it doesn't. You can write webservices, console apps,
class libs, the whole trip. Allthough if you wanted to write a web serv=
ice
you're not gonna get any nice wizards like with VS.net. But maybe that'=
ll
come
later...

>Would make more sense to use more modern stuff. But maybe if your job
>requires it for some reason, then it'd be helpful.

Yeah like you said, the job requires it unfortunately. A contracter tha=
t
works here
told me today they are forcing him to use VB.net and apparently they're=

gonna
make that the standard in this company. That's just bloody sad if you a=
sk
me.
I'm just gonna refuse to use it. It's simpler for a VB programmer
to learn C# than vb.net.

>--
>Mike Hearn <m.hearn@signal.qinetiq.com>
>QinetiQ - Malvern Technology Center

Willem Smit
SL IT
9471637
0724872442

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