One of the great features of the Windows version of .NET framework is that several thousand controls and components have already been developed. Unfortunately, these have not yet been ported to Mono. Most of these may never be ported because many of these components rely on interfaces to underlying COM objects and the Win32 API and make use of the evil P/Invoke.
Now that Mono is becoming highly functional, has anyone considered doing an analysis to see what the most needed components/controls might be and starting a group to develop these controls. For example, a reporting tool like Crystal Reports would probably be high on the list. Other controls would be similar to the suites developed by Infragistics and ComponentOne. Were a large number of controls and components to be made available for Mono, it would definitely impact (positively) the acceptance of the framework by the .NET community. If the controls were FREE, this would be an added incentive to switch to .NET. All of the above mentioned companies have VERY EXPENSIVE price tags on their products. I am certainly interested in assisting in such an endeavor as developing .NET controls for mono. Are there others with a similar interest? If so, where do we go from here? Anthony ===== Regards, Anthony Gatlin __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
