These products are free as in beer. There is no real catch. Just a slim downed version of the non-express version. They take out some nice features so you want to buy the real version. When you talk about .net, I'm guessing you're talking about the C# Express or VB Express products. The Mono runtime can handle many apps compiled using VS or the Express equiv. It doesn't support everything so watch out. For example, a few years ago, the mono folks were trying to create a complete implementation of win.forms. I think now they have that project finished. Also, the mono project is working on suppprting the LINQ API. Another example is that the version of .net mono supports is always behind Microsoft.
Chris On May 28, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Jeff Lasman <[email protected]> wrote: I just found this page this morning: http://www.microsoft.com/express/product/default.aspx and I know a bunch of posters here use Windows and Linux in mixed environments. Does anyone know anything about the "express" products? Are they really free as in beer, as they appear to look? The pages say they're for .net. I wonder if they'll work with mono? Or with the .net/mono implementation on Novell SLED. Anyone ever come across these before? Anyone know if they create programs that work in a linux implementation of Mono? The reason I'm interested is because years ago I was a VB programmer. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services P.O. Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only voice: +1 951 643-5345, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"; _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list [email protected] http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
