Winforms support is very well underway http://www.mono-project.com/WinForms
I personally disagree with this statement though. If you put a winforms
interface on a *nix box or mac (yes I am treating mac differently) your
users will hate your interface. It is no different than when you use
something that has a GTK based interface in windows, its different you don't
like it.
I advocate using a MVC/MVP type pattern and actually producing native
interfaces sure you are only reusing 90% of your code instead of 100% but
you have happy users. Given for situations where you might have 50 users
running in unix this obviously is not worthwhile but for any serious user
base...
Cheers,
Greg Young
MVP - C#
http://geekswithblogs.net/gyoung
On 6/1/06, Geoff Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David P. Bowler said:
>
> I think you misunderstand much of Mono's value. It is not about
> attacking Java's base, its about giving the even larger Windows world
> the opportunity to explore new platforms. Having ported applications
> from dotNet to Mono, I have seen first hand its value.
I thought the point of Mono was that you didn't have to port applications.
No?
In my opinion, Mono would be tremendously valuable if it allowed any .NET
application to run on it. I grant you that's a hugely difficult task for
parts like Winforms, but that seems to me where the value lies. (Last
time
I looked Winforms support wasn't available in Mono, but that was a very
long
time ago.)
Having it as another platform that you need to port to just makes it too
easy for folks to ignore.
Geoff
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