Help Me!!! How to run my Windows DB Application in Ubuntu?
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Help Me!!! How to run my Windows DB Application in Ubuntu?
Friend, i am in a deep needed i need your help. Im working now in software company and we're developing application software using vb.net. But our client is using Ubuntu OS. It is possbile to run my Windows application on Ubuntu?
please help me, my project is good for one month only.
Sometimes. You might try Mono, it should be in the regular repositories under cross platform. Some vb.net programs will run with it, some won't. Other than that, you might give Wine a shot. It's a Windows API emulator. Once again, some things work and some don't. If your program doesn't make any really strange API calls, it will most likely run under Wine. Lastly, there's VMware, which is a complete emulator. It will most likely run any Windows program but very slowly even on good hardware. I hope this helps.
And, if your app won't work on Mono, and you have to use a Virtual Machine, just try first the free one from: http://www.virtualbox.org/. It's free and 5 time smaller than VMWare.
i've installed mono x86 (all distributions) in Ubuntu, but nothing happens when i run the mono (mono.exe - windows equivalent) under /mono-1.2.3.1/bin/mono or even i clicked the "start here" icon. Help me please. Im just newbie in Linux.
You should type mono and the actual name of your windows form application; i.e. if the application is named coco.exe than lunch it by typing:
mono coco.exe
Zaert thanks, successfully execute my application located at my windows partition by typing "mono \hda1\anything.exe"
Wine solves my problem to execute app from windows, but when you are running an application that needed a .net framework, this will be the result "install the Windows version of Mono to run .NET executables". So Mono will take the lead and solves this problem.
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