In addition to everything Dan said... It might help you to run MoMA on your app in Windows:
http://www.mono-project.com/MoMA This will help you determine ahead of time what potential problems you might have when running your app on Mono in Linux. Best, Sandy On 5/3/07, Denis B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Dan, > > To introduce myself quickly, I am lead of a small development team of > engineering software. The application is client/server written in VB.Net and > MSSQL. I am looking at the feasibility of supporting linux and thought I > would take a look at how useable Mono is. I am a relative linux newb. I am > not really fussed about missing VB specific features in Mono because they > can be recoded easily however I have a heavy reliance on WinForms and GDI+. > > I have recently installed Feisty Ubuntu and installed Mono/MonoDevelop from > the package manager on my home machine to have a play and havent got very > far. > > Windows.Forms is part of a standard Mono installation. I cant see how to > reference and/or use it. > > I have been occasionally checking http://www.mono-project.com/ over quite a > long time. > http://www.mono-project.com/WinForms provides some background info, nothing > of any use really. The development weblog it references was last updated Feb > 06. > I am happy using the latest stable release so I hope I dont have to compile > my own version. > > Is there a simple way of getting up and running with WinForms? Is there a > decent way to develop WinForms in Linux or would I be better off staying in > Windows and using Visual Studio (and then trying to compile under Mono and > run results on Linux)? If there are any other website with information > please point me in the right direction, I have tried the mono website, > mailing list, various blogs, Wikipedia and whatever Google has thrown up to > try and find my way. > > Thanks, > Denis > > > > > Maser, Dan wrote: > > > > Yes, it does work. Naturally if you do something (just as an > > example) that calls into the Win32 api directly you'll have to make some > > changes to your code to let it do the equiv on linux. All the steps > > are on the mono web site. If you have a more specific question about an > > error your getting then perhaps this mailing list might be a good place > > to start. But for general steps on how to start: > > > > 1. Read as much of the http://www.mono-project.com/ web site as you can. > > 2. Pay close attention to http://www.mono-project.com/Compiling_Mono and > > http://www.mono-project.com/FAQ:_Winforms > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/WinForms-On-Linux-tf3674425.html#a10316607 > Sent from the Mono - WinForms mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-winforms-list maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list > _______________________________________________ Mono-winforms-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list
