Visual Basic for Linux / Go - Mono

[Fan of P2P]

Hi,

Does anyone know if there is a GOOD Visual Basic environment
equivalent for Linux? I have been keeping my eye on the Go-Mono
project which will (hopefully) be a Common Runtime Library for Linux.
Does anyone know how this project is going with respect to VB? I have
not been able to get too much info about it.

Does the MONO CLR work yet for VB.NET apps? If so, then I can install
it and try testing some apps I have written/plan to write.

I have been programming VB for a while on Windows but want to get into
the Linux arena for writing apps. I don't want to learn a new
language (unless i have to) so I am looking to re-use my VB skills.


I don't want to get into a MS/Linux battle or which programming
language is best. At the end of the day, it all comes down to
personal choice. If I knew how to program in C, Perl or anything
else, then I would. Then this would not be a problem as there are
plenty of C dev tools for Linux!

 

[CJ Taylor]

Hi,

Does anyone know if there is a GOOD Visual Basic environment
equivalent for Linux? I have been keeping my eye on the Go-Mono
project which will (hopefully) be a Common Runtime Library for Linux.
Does anyone know how this project is going with respect to VB? I have
not been able to get too much info about it.

Does the MONO CLR work yet for VB.NET apps? If so, then I can install
it and try testing some apps I have written/plan to write.

I was pretty sure that Mono had finished the C# and VB.NET linux compilers
already. They had a pretty good team for it. Apparently the struggle has
been the framework given its complexity and overall kernel interaction that
has slowed them down some. Last I checked I think they have 42% or
something like that of the Framework done. They have it broken down by
namespace on their website.

but you should be able to port over some of your stuff depending on what
namespaces you are using. I think Forms is done at least. =) But if your
using namespaces that aren't finished yet... well, your out of luck. =)

I have been programming VB for a while on Windows but want to get into
the Linux arena for writing apps. I don't want to learn a new
language (unless i have to) so I am looking to re-use my VB skills.

Completly understandable. There are a ton of languages for Linux, but each
has its own problems. Java is probably the best bet for cross platform
development, but I don't like it much either.

I don't want to get into a MS/Linux battle or which programming
language is best. At the end of the day, it all comes down to
personal choice.

Yes it does... So if a C++ programmer wants to take a week to code what I
program in an hour... let him be... =)

If I knew how to program in C, Perl or anything

No one wants to know perl... Super powerful language that is confusing as
hell. Thats like wanting to know cobol....

 

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Fan,
In addition to CJ's comments.

Here is the status of Go Mono's VB.NET compiler:
http://www.go-mono.com/mbas.html

I suspect, but have not confirmed, that you could/should be able to use
Sharp Develop for an IDE on Go Mono.
http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/

Hope this helps
Jay

 

[Tom Shelton]

Hi,

Does anyone know if there is a GOOD Visual Basic environment
equivalent for Linux? I have been keeping my eye on the Go-Mono
project which will (hopefully) be a Common Runtime Library for Linux.
Does anyone know how this project is going with respect to VB? I have
not been able to get too much info about it.

Does the MONO CLR work yet for VB.NET apps? If so, then I can install
it and try testing some apps I have written/plan to write.

I have been programming VB for a while on Windows but want to get into
the Linux arena for writing apps. I don't want to learn a new
language (unless i have to) so I am looking to re-use my VB skills.


I don't want to get into a MS/Linux battle or which programming
language is best. At the end of the day, it all comes down to
personal choice. If I knew how to program in C, Perl or anything
else, then I would. Then this would not be a problem as there are
plenty of C dev tools for Linux!

Mono is laking a lot of the libraries still. System.Windows.Forms is
only in the begining stages. They do expect to release v1.0 sometime in
the not to distant future - but it will likely not include
System.Windows.Froms in the v1.0 release. I can't say how far the
VB.NET compiler (mbas) has come - I really haven't used it much. The C#
compiler isn't to bad though . Right now they have a pretty good
ADO.NET implementation, ASP.NET, and they are adding Python bindings.
For GUI work with mono you will probably want to look at GTK# or
possibly QT# (but I don't think QT# is as far a long).

Tom Shelton