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I'm currently reading about mono, and am finding out about Novell's involvement (it seems to be sponsoring the project, whatever that means), and about gtk#, which is damned interesting.
One of the reasons mono has seemed a lesser cousin or .net on winodws to date is that winforms is not supported, although it appears that support is coming. A major problem there is that winforms isn't complete in .net yet, requiring a lot of pinvoke calls to win32 which is something not available on linux.
However, mono currently has support for gtk#, which allows you to do fat clients for gnome, and apparently these apps will also run "out of the box" on windows. I think they might actually require a gtk# runtime to be installed on windows, but hey. But this is definitely supposed to be a cross platform fat client option. Interesting!
I've been thinking for a while that Microsoft is open to someone coming up with a decent alternative to winforms which can be used on windows, linux, and other platforms. Is gtk# it? Stay tuned...
One of the reasons mono has seemed a lesser cousin or .net on winodws to date is that winforms is not supported, although it appears that support is coming. A major problem there is that winforms isn't complete in .net yet, requiring a lot of pinvoke calls to win32 which is something not available on linux.
However, mono currently has support for gtk#, which allows you to do fat clients for gnome, and apparently these apps will also run "out of the box" on windows. I think they might actually require a gtk# runtime to be installed on windows, but hey. But this is definitely supposed to be a cross platform fat client option. Interesting!
I've been thinking for a while that Microsoft is open to someone coming up with a decent alternative to winforms which can be used on windows, linux, and other platforms. Is gtk# it? Stay tuned...
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