> what is the development status of winforms in mono. we are building a > software app and we would like to make it cross compatible with linux. > although the app is coded in vstudio 2005 using .net framework 2.0 , > we are interested in porting it to the linux. we did saw the existing > developments in gtk# but found it too confusing for practical use in a > production environment because of the learning curve of the > developers. gtk# features are almost undocument and it's a whole lot > of difference while dealing with them. for example, making a form's
I'm not arguing for one or the other solution; but as someone who is *not* a full-time developer I have to point out that I disagree with the undocumented claim concerning Gtk#. I've been able, in just my spare time, to create fairly complicated applications with Mono/Gtk# <http://freshmeat.net/screenshots/65615/70833/>. The documentation in monodoc <http://www.go-mono.com/docs/> is pretty good and there are tutorials to cover most of the other important stuff <http://www.mono-project.com/GtkSharp>. I hadn't done any GUI development since Borland's OWL on WfWg 3.11 and Gtk# seemed pretty straight forward, when I did get stuck the gtk-sharp <http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/gtk-sharp-list> has been very responsive. Over the holidays I was, in just my spare time, able to create a basically functional and not terribly ugly (IMHO) calendar widget <http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddv5htgd_23c4spt3gj> I'd recommend [and do] Gtk# to anybody. The documentation could be better but is (IMO) adequate; the two deficits in my view of Gtk# are lack of any data-binding support (aside from TreeView, which is an awesome widget) and the death of 'third-party' widgets/controls (witness I had to create a scheduling widget). -- Consonance: an Open Source .NET OpenGroupware client. Contact:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://freshmeat.net/projects/consonance/
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