Software written in .Net

[Guest]

If software is written in .Net technology, is it possible for that
application to operate on a Mac. I know no one with a Mac, can't test it,
and don't know where to turn. Does anyone have any advice? If I am being to
vague let me know I will elaborate a bit more. Please help?

 

[Frank Eller]

If software is written in .Net technology, is it possible for that
application to operate on a Mac. I know no one with a Mac, can't
test it, and don't know where to turn. Does anyone have any advice?
If I am being to vague let me know I will elaborate a bit more.
Please help?

..NET/.NET Applications doen't not run on a mac, sorry.

 

[Morten Wennevik]

.NET/.NET Applications doen't not run on a mac, sorry.

Well, not entirely true. There is Mono that enables you to run .net
programs on Mac and Linux
http://www.go-mono.org

 

[Eric Falsken]

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 19:08:56 +0100, Frank Eller

Well, not entirely true. There is Mono that enables you to run .net
programs on Mac and Linux
http://www.go-mono.org

But there are VERY limitied packages or support for it. And it does require
extra software to be running on the Mac. There are 3 ways to do it in Mono,
using GTK# (not really supported in OS-X but can run with the X11 Jaguar
add-on), and Graphite# or there's another project that I found that the Mac
can use natively.

Basically, even using Mono, .NET WinForms are not mac-friendly, and are NOT
easily portable.

Web stuff, and ASP.NET can run on a Mac web server that supports Mono.
(Like Apache or some of the other upstart web servers that are out there)

 

[Guest]

Mac is BSD based. The Rotor project can be compiled for BSD and mono will run
on UNIX based systems, I believe. So, yes, it is possible, but I am not sure
how much functionality is ported at present.


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[Frank Eller]

Well, not entirely true. There is Mono that enables you to run .net
programs on Mac and Linux
http://www.go-mono.org

I think mono a pretty good approach to make .NET really system-independent,
but it is too limited so far (speaking ofwindows.forms-applications). So
IMHO: absolutely _no_ chance for a real-world .NET-Application to run on a
Mac. Even if you get it to run (with several additional software), try to
deploy it ...

Regards,

 

[W.G. Ryan eMVP]

I couldn't Disagree more. Have you actually tried it yet? I'll agree that
Winforms is anticlimactic, but it's still doable and winforms are but one
tiny component of .NET