I'm currently in the planning stages for an application written in Visual Basic .NET. This application will be used primarily on the Windows operating system, at least initially, but I want to support use of the application on Linux.
I am developing the application for Windows in SharpDevelop. I have a Debian Linux system set-up, and I will be using it to do some of the development and testing of the application on Mono. (I'm still a relative nebie to Linux.) My goal is a single cross-platform application. I had contacted the MonoGIS mailing list about my application, and they mentioned C# might be a better programming language than .NET. This wouldn't be a problem normally, except that my application is geared towards developers that are already familiar with Visual Basic .NET and are coming from a legacy Visual Basic background. I was hoping to capture a large developer audience for my application and I fear I will loose many of them if I use C# instead of Visual Basic .NET. What type of support will I find for Visual Basic .NET in Mono? What type of future will the language have on the Mono platform? If I do decide Visual Basic .NET is a viable language for development on Mono, how can I help make sure it remains a viable language? I can probably contribute to documentation efforts, and wouldn't mind learning about the Visual Basic compiler for Mono. I have some experience with other high and low level languages, so I'm sure I could pick it up with time. Thanks very much for the advice. Scott Huey P.S. - The first public release of the application won't be for at least 6 to 12 months, so I have some time for support of Visual Basic .NET in Mono to improve. _______________________________________________ Mono-vb mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-vb
