[MonoDevelop] Monodevelop & VB.NE

[Michael Hutchinson]

On Jan 2, 2008 4:52 PM, Alex Bartonek <bartonekdragracing at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Kinda confused.. I want to develop a app using a
> Visual Basic type environment (gui builder, stand
> alone app etc).
>
> I can do this w/REALBasic but can I do the same
> w/Mono+Monodevelop using VB.net code?
>
> If so is it as simple as installing mono/monodevelop
> and buying a vb.net book and voila..start coding?

Sadly, the Stetic GUI builder in MD doesn't support VB.NET yet. Also,
the VB.NET code completion isn't working right now. However, you *can*
use Glade to build the GUI and write code in VB.NET. Compiling and
running VB.NET code should work just fine. Code completion and
built-in GUI design will probably work in future releases of MD but
it'll never be supported as well as C# is.

You could also write your GUI code in C#, put it in a library, then
consume it from VB ;-)

FWIW, if you're learning new stuff, C# is certainly a more valuable
skill to have, and it's not dissimilar to VB.NET except in syntax.
It's pretty easy to use IMO, and we even have some tutorials on the MD
website that all use C#, at http://monodevelop.com/Documentation

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Michael Hutchinson
http://mjhutchinson.com