[Mono-winforms-list] New install of C Sharp, using System.Winforms not found

Tue Feb 22 02:13:47 EST 2011

You didn't even need Mono or MonoDevelop for Windows, actually (although it
can help to do preliminary tests before checking Linux out). What I meant is
build your app with Visual Studio, then test it on Linux with Mono. So you
use the WinForms designer of Visual Studio.

MonoDevelop only has a GTK# designer. No WinForms designer, no ASP.NET
designer, no Silverlight/Moonlight designer, and no WPF support at all.
But on the bright side, since Mono is an open project, you can fix anything
you deem "not acceptable".

iBradleyAllen wrote:
> 
> ok cool, I downloaded the files for windows and got it setup in visual
> studio, then did debug in monodevelop and it worked;  then made the file
> in
> md.  no it didnt have any visual designer for the winforms stuff, i had to
> open a gtk# new solution and then it did.  but i noticed adding items from
> the toolbox into the design area some did not have any properties?
> 
> Its not acceptable to NOT have the visual designer mode. In the Microsoft
> world there is the Expression Blend as an alternative toolbox designer,
> using XAML which is awesome, anything like that available? or is that
> asking
> too much?
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Stifu [via Mono] <
> ml-node+3318091-738239259-213829 at n4.nabble.com> wrote:
> 
>> "In the monodevelop there was some kind of design page, although
>> different
>> from visual studio;"
>> It must have been the GTK# designer (an alternative to WinForms).
>>
>> "Can you describe how I would build it in visual studio but then test it
>> on
>>
>> linux??"
>> Just build your application normally on Windows, and then you can simply
>> test your app directly on Linux (either the binaries or the sources, both
>> are compatible with the Mono runtime and MonoDevelop respectively,
>> without
>> any changes). So it's all pretty straightforward.
>>
>> Note that no matter what, you *will* need to install the Mono WinForms
>> package to run WinForms apps, if you don't already have it. It's
>> installed
>> by default in OpenSUSE if memory serves. Look for "winforms" in your
>> package
>> manager, to confirm it's there and installed.
>>
>> iBradleyAllen wrote:
>> Hi,
>> yes I meant system.windows.forms
>>
>> In the monodevelop there was some kind of design page, although different
>> from visual studio;
>>
>> Can you describe how I would build it in visual studio but then test it
>> on
>> linux??  this is possible?  if I could add emphasis and excitement in a
>> question i would do it above.
>>
>> I did get the latest monodevelop downloaded, and it showed in the details
>> that it was downgrading some and installing other stuff, afterwards i
>> could
>>
>> open a default project, compile, run without doing any other coding, and
>> it
>>
>> worked and displayed a blank window as expected.  the first time i ran it
>> got errors saying cannot find assembly this/that...then downloaded it
>> from
>> the site and it worked; so thats solved.
>>
>> I could NOT get the system.windows.forms add in.  but WOW!! if i can
>> build
>> these in VS2008 and they work in the linux thats great.
>>
>> It would be so much more helpful to hear an overview of the process
>> rather
>> than try to figure it out from scratch
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 1:19 AM, Stifu [via Mono] <
>> ml-node+3314993-1938980173-213829 at n4.nabble.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Just checking: when you say "System.Winforms", you really mean
>> > "System.Windows.Forms", right?
>> >
>> > Also, MonoDevelop has no WinForms designer. So I suggest you build your
>> UI
>> > on Windows (using Visual Studio or something else), then test your app
>> on
>>
>> > Linux. The other option would be to build your app without using a
>> designer,
>> > which doesn't sound nice. Or use GTK# rather than WinForms, or
>> something.
>>
>> >
>> > Not sure what problem you're encountering with getting the latest Mono
>> on
>>
>> > OpenSUSE, it should be pretty straightforward, if you're using the
>> official
>> > repo from the Mono download page. There's another tool in OpenSUSE to
>> add
>>
>> > repo URLs, other than zypper, but I forgot what its name is. Then when
>> > looking for new programs / updates, you should see all Mono 2.10
>> packages.
>> >
>> > iBradleyAllen wrote:
>> > I just downloaded and tried this out in openSuse 11.3 (which is also
>> new
>> to
>> > me).  Im familiar with C# from Visual Studio and want to make it work
>> on
>> > this.
>> >
>> > In a new solution i made a button, progressbar and double clicked the
>> > button in the ide designer view hoping it would generate a method stub
>> for
>> > the OnClick event, but it didnt;  I tried to manually make a delegate
>> but
>> it
>> > got an error saying what is this += thing?  eventually found the on
>> click
>>
>> > event and added a messagebox.show or tried to, its not known.
>> >
>> > using system.winforms was not known.  searching got a page that said
>> > download it from svn.anon something, so i installed subversion and
>> tried
>> it
>> > svn co svn://anonmonoproject whatever? connection refused.
>> >
>> > I installed the latest mono development from the main page using
>> zypper.
>> >
>> > but i couldnt find or get the trunk/mcs to build it??
>> >
>> > So the big picture is that I want to setup the IDE to look like a
>> windows
>>
>> > C# winforms platform;
>> >
>> > 2nd thing is to have these run in the suse linux
>> > 3rd thing is to create the forms as threads
>> >
>> > thanks in advance
>> >
>> >
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