.net on linux ??
 

Hey guys heard that M$ has opened up the dotnet architecture ! does anyone know how make vs .net run on linux.. i mean the IDE for C#.. using wine ?..

http://www.gnu.org/projects/dotgnu/index.html this is the gnu.org implementation of .net.

http://developer.ximian.com/projects/mono/ is the ximian impelmentaion.. Tons of info on these site..let me know if this help.

I have tried the GNU based implementation and it is working fine. I used it to run Console based applications developed in Windows. And also compile and run C# code.

however ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Windows.Forms etc are not supported yet.

No gui based pgms ???

Yes so far i think so there is no support for gui (in the GNU based version, i have not checked the other one). If someone thinks otherwise please do let me know.

I was able to run simple console based applications but not the GUI based ones. There i checked the FAQs and found this one

"
11.1. Can I use ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Windows.Forms, etc with DotGNU Portable.NET?
At the moment, no. There are a huge collection of libraries and Web server hooks that need to be built, and it will take time to do so. If you want to volunteer to help out on this, then that would be great. The Mono project is already working on some of the necessary libraries, which we hope to reuse when they mature.
"

=)

you'll get mono while messing with ms technology

Hi i think guis based on gtk+ are supported by mono...

Yeah, the've got gtk-sharp rpms on the download page:

http://go-mono.org/download.html

Please don't bring the Microsoft technologies on Linux platform. Use Java instead. "j2EE" platform is much more superior to ".NET" platform.

Superiority and popularity don't always go together. Just look at Linux vs MS Windows. Linux support for .NET is a step toward interoperability with the most popular OS in the world. Not a bad idea in my humble opinion. I code in Java though... ;)

Ya. You maybe right. Developers cannot follow the passion always. They just can't ignore the popularity sometimes.
Although I don't want to code on Windows, I can't avoid it when I need to write the programs for the Symbian and some mobile phones.

Really? I never code for criminal oganizations under any circumstances.

no. I never code for criminal organizations. I just code for symbian OS and j2me applications for mobile phones. Symbian SDK is available only for the Windows platforms. The same thing is true for all the Siemens SDKs and some models of nokia.

That's just....criminal :p

No choice man! :)
I'm planning to set up my own business, online software shop, and I will be emphasizing this area. (doing it in my free time, part-time basic)
If it's successful, I would quit my job and write programs full time at home. That's my dream and it is imposible to achieve it by writing Linux programs only. I cannot follow my passion. I need to look at what's the potential market and dive into it to make money.