Hi > I have never written GUI apps in Linux but I thought maybe I could write a > GUI Editor like Visual Studio Dot NET that could do ASP.Net and ADO.Net. > Since the form elements are at least a year out from the looks of it. What > do you think? > > I will start looking into GNOME and X windows Development, in the mean time. >
If you're interrested in writing a IDE for .NET please join the SharpDevelop project. We need contributors and coders. SharpDevelop is designed with portability in mind. When Mono & GTK# will run well, we'll port it over to linux. Currently the dialogs get converted to a xml format, which could be used with GTK# too (XSL transform), this make it easier to switch the GUI APIs and the basic 'GUI' functionalaty is made abstract and has a very high level 'interface' which should map to any GUI API system. Some controls and classes must be ported by hand and currently not all dialogs are in the xml format. For the port we could need some help too :) I'm currently writing more documentation and examples to make it easier for other people to contribute and understand the project. Soon it will be much easier to get into it and coding something productive for it. I think it is better to concentrate on a single development environment to compete with VS.NET, because it is a huge development effort and it is better to have ONE really good IDE than to have five kdevelop clones which are full of bugs and can't even compete with jedit in terms of project management, editor etc. cya _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
