[MonoDevelop] Stupid Noob Question: MonoDevelop VB .net

[Lewis Balentine]

It does not appear that the mail list has much activity but on the off 
chance that someone in the developer group does on occasion check the 
list .......

I have tried all Linux versions of Monodevelop that I could find. 
Despite any claims to the contrary VB.NET does NOT work in any of them. 
I tried the Flatpak 'preview' distribution and that proved to be the 
worst of the lot. In my opinion Flatpak should be considered a 
non-starter. My current installation is:
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MonoDevelop: Version 5.10
Installation UUID: 52518412-b276-4425-8171-bda7cb775914
Runtime:
     Mono 5.0.0 (Stable 5.0.0.100/9667aa6 Thu May 11 14:33:04 UTC 2017) 
(64-bit)
     GTK+ 2.24.30 (Mint-X-Grey theme)

Build Information: Build information unavailable

Operating System
Linux Mint 18.1, Mate Desktop, Linux 4.4.0-77-generic #98-Ubuntu SMP Wed 
Apr 26 08:34:02 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Hardware: HP8460W, 20GB
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MonoDevelop does work with C# in console mode or the GTK Gui.
Perhaps Monodevelop VB.NET works on Mac or Windows but I find it hard to 
believe anyone has the nerve to claim it works on Linux. I strongly 
suspect it is one of those situations where no one gives flying f###.




On 05/14/2017 01:00 PM, Lewis Balentine wrote:
> I have Linux Mint Mate 18.2. One of the things I like about Linux Mint 
> is that using the package manager most applications have been test and 
> work more or less as advertised .... Monodevelop (version 5.10) not so 
> much. It does install but when I try to use VB to create "Hello Word" 
> everything goes awry.
>
> Problem one:
> Error while trying to load the project 
> '/home/lewis/MonoProjects/HellowWordlVB/HellowWordlVB/HellowWordlVB.vbproj': 
> Project does not support framework '.NETFramework,Version=v4.5'
>
> So searching around a bit I found that I needed to edit line 10 of the 
> file 
> '/home/lewis/MonoProjects/HellowWordlVB/HellowWordlVB/HellowWordlVB.vbproj' 
> to the Framework Version reference from 4.5 to 4.0
> Then restart Monodelevop and reload the project
>
> Joy, Joy, Joy ..... well not so much
>
> Problem two: .Net 4.0 not installed
>
>
> lewis at HP8460W ~ $ mono --version
> Mono JIT compiler version 4.2.1 (Debian 4.2.1.102+dfsg2-7ubuntu4)
> Copyright (C) 2002-2014 Novell, Inc, Xamarin Inc and Contributors. 
> www.mono-project.com
>     TLS:           __thread
>     SIGSEGV:       altstack
>     Notifications: epoll
>     Architecture:  amd64
>     Disabled:      none
>     Misc:          softdebug
>     LLVM:          supported, not enabled.
>     GC:            sgen
>
> Changing the reference to "4.2.1" also gave a similar error.
> Despite hours of searching I have NOT found any fix/patch/solution to 
> this problem although I did find a number questions about it.
>
> STUPID NOOB QUESTIONS:
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> Does anyone have Monodevelop VB operating as expected ?
> Is there any Linux Distribution that Monodevelop VB  does run on as 
> expected ?
>
> To be fair: Monodevelop C# does compile, debug and run "Hello World" 
> as expected.
>
> Back in the day I wrote a lot of VB6 code on Windows XP. I even wrote 
> a couple of programs in VB .Net on Windows 7. Until VB works as 
> expected, I have rate monodevelop as "not ready for prime time".   I 
> am an old man but I have high hopes of seeing this change before I die.
>
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> Respectfully,
>
> Lewis Balentine
> Houston, Texas
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