[Mono-winforms-list] Using Windows Forms over Linux

2009-11-18 Thread Dimitris Karantonis
Hi to all, I am new to .net development over Linux platforms (I have always used MS Visual Studio platform) and I would like to ask what is the best way of implementing a Window Forms application in order to be able to deploy it on both Windows and Linux OS. 1) Should i use MS visual

Re: [Mono-winforms-list] Using Windows Forms over Linux

2009-11-18 Thread Robert Jordan
Dimitris Karantonis wrote: Hi to all, I am new to .net development over Linux platforms (I have always used MS Visual Studio platform) and I would like to ask what is the best way of implementing a Window Forms application in order to be able to deploy it on both Windows and Linux OS.

Re: [Mono-winforms-list] Using Windows Forms over Linux

2009-11-18 Thread Petit Eric
2009/11/18 Dimitris Karantonis dkaranto...@soft4real.com: Hi, This is an interesting solution, but does it actually works? And what about maintenance through the application's lifecycle? Meaning, how do you handle situations when you want to add a new event? It work, i don't really practice

Re: [Mono-winforms-list] Using Windows Forms over Linux

2009-11-18 Thread StApostol
Frankly, the best way to create a cross-platform GUI is to use GTK# from the beginning. With WinForms, you'll encounter several issues that will make things rather difficult down the road: flaky databinding, slow rendering (especially for grid views), inconsistent rendering between versions,

Re: [Mono-winforms-list] Using Windows Forms over Linux

2009-11-18 Thread Carlos Alberto Cortez
Hey, There are some limitations on our implementation of Windows.Forms, just as any other re-implementation can have. We provide it however, to let developers to bring their applications from .net to linux with Mono. Now: if you are going to create a new app, then you can go with Gtk#, and