Hi Cecel, The MS C# Express Beta uses the .NET 2.0 Beta framework. There were not too many problems changing the PowerSDR code to get it to compile on .NET 2.0 last time I tried (around version 1.2.x). After you convert the PowerSDR source code project to .NET 2.0 people will not be able to open in in VS 2003 (which is ok if you do not intend to redistribute the code changes you make or if you do, the other people are using C# Express).
The C# and VB Express versions and the VS 2005 Beta 2 does require a lot of resources - both memory and CPU. It runs ok on my development machine (AMD Athlon 3200+) w/ 1 GB ram but I would not want to run it on anything slower. The new IDE is very nice as long as you have the machine to run it. I don't know if this will improve when they finally release the production versions or not ( I doubt it). I have been following the Mono project for a long while. They have finally got the System.Windows.Forms library up to the point where it is usable in ver 1.1.9.1. [Hint: pass export MONO_THEME=nice as an environmental variable before invoking Mono and the System.Windows.Forms stuff will look cool]. I have been doing some work with SharpDevelop targeting the Mono framework. Since SharpDevelop will not run on Linux I develop the System.Windows.Forms GUI part of the application in SharpDevelop in Windows. The code then can be developed in either SharpDevelop on Windows or MonoDevelop on Linux (or in vim or emacs ;-)) MonoDevelop does not have a GUI designer like SharpDevelop has (for System.Windows.Forms). Another option is to use the Glade interface designer (which runs on Linux or Windows) to do your GUI design with Gtk+. You will then have cross platform development of the GUI. You have to have Gtk+ and libglade installed in both Linux and Windows to develop your app on both. I have done this and it works very well too. 73 de Phil N8VB On 10/7/05, KD5NWA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is related to SDR sort of. I'm looking for a visual multi-OS > programming platform to create modified versions of the SDR software on > different OS. > > For the last year or so I've been looking on and off for a visual platform > that will let me generate applications for Windows, Linux, and OS X without > having to do 20 jumps through hoops or have to borrow money from the bank to > pay for it. The only thing so far that fits the bill is Lisp, incredibly > powerful but there is a huge learning curve associated with it. > > I downloaded MS C# beta version from their web site and set it up, and I'm > not impressed. I don't have fastest PC on the Planet but I also don't have > the slowest, It's a 1700MHz Athalon with 1.5 Gig of Ram and a 1.2 Terabyte > HD drive array (I use it for video editing). > > The IDE was so incredibly slow, it would take several seconds to do > anything, click on a button to see the code, wait. open a file, wait, call > up a tool bar, wait. It's to the point where is not very productive, > anything you do is accompanied by having to wait. > > For the folks out there that use MS C#, is that your experience or did you > have to buy a really fast machine to get it to move it's carcass? > > Frustrated! > > > > Cecil Bayona > KD5NWA > www.qrpradio.com > > I fail to see why doing the same thing over and over and getting the same > results every time is insanity: I've almost proved it isn't; only a few more > tests now and I'm sure results will differ this time ... > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio mailing list > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > > > -- Philip A Covington http://www.philcovington.com
