.NET framework on Macintosh

[Hem]

I wish to know if applications developed on Windows OS
using .NET Framework can be made to run on the Macintosh
PCs. We are developing an application using .NET Windows
Forms. The guys who would test this application have Mac
PCs. Can they somehow run this app?

 

[Robert Jacobson]

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...address"&meta=group=microsoft.public.dotnet.*

 

[Rob Teixeira [MVP]]

The .NET runtime (redist or SDK) from Microsoft only runs on Windows.
However, your application is just a collection of meta data and CIL
instructions, which is in theory portable.
The ROTOR project (a Microsoft sponsored open source version of the .NET
runtime), last I saw, had something in the works for the Mac, but realize
that ROTOR is mostly about the .NET bits and pieces that were submitted as a
standard (as far as I remember, WinForms is not in that category).
Also, if you check out the Mono project http://www.go-mono.com/ there is
someone working on a Mac port, but they are far from being done.

-Rob [MVP]

 

[Jerry Ham]

You'll need to have them use terminal services to get to a Windows server or
use Connectix (now Microsoft) Virtual PC installed on their Macs...