Hello Michael, > I fear that C# will be too verbose in syntax / not productive and efficient > enough, so wish to see if the Mono Basic support lags at all behind the > primary language C#. I guess that a language itself is not about efficiency, but the compiler creates binary code that is efficient. Of course if people are used to and experienced in a certain language, then there code will be easier to read for them.
> I said Primary is Xubuntu. Target platforms will include Windows at first, > perhaps others later. So I would need to understand the Windows run-time > requirements. I hope to be able to build without any use of paid license > software... aka VisualStudio. Will this be possible targeting a Windows > run-time platform? Thank you. There is some Visual Basic support in Mono, but I have not used it myself and cannot say if it works for everything. I recently built the mono-basic package on OBS: http://www.pokorra.de/2013/12/easy-installation-of-current-mono-and-monodevelop-for-all-major-linux-distributions/comment-page-1/#comment-172 There is some activity on the mono-basic git repository: https://github.com/mono/mono-basic/commits/master But then this page: http://docs.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/application_fundamentals/pcl/portable_visual_basic_net/ says: "Xamarin iOS and Android projects do not natively support Visual Basic; however developers can use Portable Class Libraries to migrate existing Visual Basic code to iOS and Android, or to write significant portion of their application logic in Visual Basic." On the other hand, if you develop for example with SharpDevelop on Windows (http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/), you should be able to compile the VisualBasic code on Windows and use the binary dlls on Linux. The other big question is the use of the GUI library for the client. Windows.Forms is not recommended on Mono at all, no development anymore. I don't know about WPF on Mono. Ah, not implemented: http://www.mono-project.com/WPF I personally am targeting now browser based only client (HTML/Javascript) accessing the server through asmx webservices, then I have no problem with different operating systems at the client side. Hope this helps, Timotheus _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - Mono-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list