[Mono-winforms-list] How to setup Winforms support under Windows

[Kornél Pál]

Hi,

GDI+ is redistributable Microsoft component.

You can download at:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6a63ab9c-df12-4d41-933c-be590feaa05a&DisplayLang=en

And I think we should include it in our Windows setup:
http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/mono-devel-list/2005-September/014803.html

Kornél

----- Original Message -----
From: "Graeme Geldenhuys" <graeme at mastermaths.co.za>
To: "mono-winforms-list" <mono-winforms-list at lists.ximian.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Mono-winforms-list] How to setup Winforms support under
Windows


> Hi Peter,
>
> The application is basically a "Hello world" style app.  Just a single
> form and a single button.
> Nothing else.
>
> Not sure what I did, but now I got a actual error saying that I am missing
> the gdiplus.dll file.
>
> Is there supposed to be a gdiplus.dll file in the <mono install>\bin
> directory (windows version
> of mono).  By default there wasn't.  I then searched my harddrive and
> found one in the WinNT
> directory structure
> (C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\gdiplus.dll).  I copied it to
> the
> <mono install>\bin folder, and now my test app seem to work.
>
> Doesn't the windows install of mono include the gdiplus.dll?  If not, then
> it means I need to
> install the Microsoft .NET framework and the Mono Framework under Windows,
> just to get the
> applications working...  This doesn't sound right?
>
>
> The following example still doesn't work though....  Using the MS .NET
> framework it does, but not
> under Mono.  I don't think you can get a more basic application than this.
> :-)
>
> ---------------  CUT  ----------------------------
> class HelloWindowsForms
> {
>    static void Main()
>    {
>        System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show("Welcome to the bill free
> zone.");
>    }
> }
> ---------------  END  ----------------------------
>
> Compiled with:
> mcs HelloWinForms.cs /r:System.Windows.Forms.dll /r:System.Drawing.dll
> /target:winexe
>
> Executed as:
> mono HelloWinForms.exe
>
> Error received:
> Unhandled Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was
> thrown
> by the type initializer for MessageBoxForm --->
> System.Reflection.TargetInvocat
> ionException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an
> invocation. ---> Sys
> tem.NotImplementedException: Bitmap.InitFromStream (win32)
> in <0x000fd> System.Drawing.Image:InitFromStream (System.IO.Stream stream)
> in (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check)
> System.Drawing.Image:InitFromStream (Sys
> tem.IO.Stream)
> in <0x00104> System.Drawing.Bitmap:.ctor
> (System.Runtime.Serialization.Serializa
> tionInfo info, StreamingContext context)
> in <0x00000> <unknown method>
> in (wrapper managed-to-native)
> System.Reflection.MonoCMethod:InternalInvoke (obj
> ect,object[])
> in <0x0006f> System.Reflection.MonoCMethod:Invoke (System.Object obj,
> BindingFla
> gs invokeAttr, System.Reflection.Binder binder, System.Object[]
> parameters, Syst
> em.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)--- End of inner exception stack
> trace ---
>
> in <0x00104> System.Reflection.MonoCMethod:Invoke (System.Object obj,
> BindingFla
> gs invokeAttr, System.Reflection.Binder binder, System.Object[]
> parameters, Syst
> em.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
> in <0x00017> System.Reflection.MethodBase:Invoke (System.Object obj,
> System.Obje
> ct[] parameters)
> in <0x0021d> System.Runtime.Serialization.ObjectRecord:LoadData
> (System.Runtime.
> Serialization.ObjectManager manager, ISurrogateSelector selector,
> StreamingConte
> xt context)
> in <0x00100> System.Runtime.Serialization.ObjectManager:DoFixups ()
> in <0x0003f>
> System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.ObjectReader:ReadNex
> tObject (System.IO.BinaryReader reader)
> in <0x000b0>
> System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.ObjectReader:ReadObj
> ectGraph (System.IO.BinaryReader reader, Boolean readHeaders,
> System.Object resu
> lt, System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.Header[] headers)
> in <0x00120>
> System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter:Dese
> rialize (System.IO.Stream serializationStream,
> System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging
> .HeaderHandler handler)
> in <0x00012>
> System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter:Dese
> rialize (System.IO.Stream serializationStream)
> in <0x0052b> System.Resources.ResourceReader:ResourceValue (Int32 index)
> in <0x00023> System.Resources.ResourceReader+ResourceEnumerator:get_Value
> ()
> in <0x00090> System.Resources.ResourceSet:ReadResources ()
> in <0x00039> System.Resources.ResourceSet:GetObject (System.String name,
> Boolean
> ignoreCase)
> in <0x00081> System.Resources.ResourceManager:GetObject (System.String
> name, Sys
> tem.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
> in <0x00010> System.Resources.ResourceManager:GetObject (System.String
> name)
> in <0x00017> System.Windows.Forms.Locale:GetResource (System.String name)
> in <0x00012> System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox+MessageBoxForm:.cctor ()---
> End of
> inner exception stack trace ---
>
> in <0x00000> <unknown method>
> in <0x0002c> System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox:Show (System.String text)
> in <0x0000c> HelloWindowsForms:Main ()
>
>
> Regards,
>  - Graeme -
>
>
>
> On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:27:51 -0600, Peter Dennis Bartok wrote:
>
>>No setup is required under Windows. A working Mono install should be
>>enough.
>>Please provide the sample code that doesn't run, to allow some testing
>>here.
>>
>>Peter
>
>
>
>
>
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