is it Likely that .Net Applications will work on Mac OS?

[jayderk]

just curious if there is any chance that an app developed on the .NET
framework will ever run on MAC OS?
I am only asking cause if so it is a very strong argument for moving to
..NET...

regards,
Jay

 

[John Wood]

I believe the current version of Mono runs on OS/X.
www.go-mono.com

 

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi,

It is possible, now AFAIK there is no intention from MS to port it to OSX ,
or unix ( OSX is a unix like in the core ). There is a project, named mono I
think that Miguel de Icaza is the leader, its the creater of Gnome , a GUI
for unix.
AFAIK the main target of mono is that it runs in Linux with OSX as a
secundary target.

check in www.go-mono.com
or http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/development_tools/mono.html

Cheers,

 

[Chuck Bowling]

Anybody know if Mono is comparable to VC# and the libraries in the GAC or is
it just a basic C# compiler?

 

[Daniel O'Connell [C# MVP]]

Anybody know if Mono is comparable to VC# and the libraries in the GAC or
is it just a basic C# compiler?

It is not an IDE, though there are freeware IDE's including one the mono
project was working on. However mono has a C# compiler and a fairly complete
class library. There are holes and potentially differences in the compiler
behaviour, but its been as close to spec as MS's has and I've had no trouble
with it in the, admittadly limited, experiance I've had.