Re: [Mono-winforms-list] Diffrences in mono and winforms

2009-11-03 Thread Stifu
Differences between Mono and WinForms is misleading. It would be more like differences between .NET WinForms and Mono WinForms, or simply Bugs in the Mono WinForms implementation (although there are also bugs in .NET WinForms, those will probably never be fixed). Anyway, having a look at all the

Re: [Mono-aspnet-list] sqlite questions?

2009-11-03 Thread william leader
I would suggest you consider using another database altogether. SQLite is meant to interface with c and c++ programs, neither of which is a language mono supports. Most asp.net applications are developed for Microsoft SQL server or MySQL server depending on where the developer wants the asp.net

Re: [Mono-aspnet-list] [Mono-list] sqlite questions?

2009-11-03 Thread Marek Habersack
Dale E. Moore wrote: Is this a good place to ask questions about sqlite? Can somebody please tell me where to go;) On SQLite itself - no, in relation to Mono/ASP.NET - yes. Has everybody (or anybody) worked with monodevelop to put together an asp.net http://asp.net application that uses an

Re: [Mono-aspnet-list] [Mono-list] sqlite questions?

2009-11-03 Thread Dale E. Moore
I'm using the default asp.net membership provider; which works fine in monodevelop, but; does not find the App_Data/aspnetdb.sqlite database when copied to TEST. I copied the mono connectionString, and membership definition into my web.config but then could never login even from monodevelop. I'm

[Mono-dev] Input method context switch

2009-11-03 Thread Tim Armstrong
Hi mono team, in developing software for linguistic applications our team recently developed a patch for the SCIM input method manager that allows us to programmatically change the selected Input Method (IM). The key idea is that when a user switches from a textbox that expects English input

Re: [Mono-list] VB .NET and default instances

2009-11-03 Thread Rolf Bjarne Kvinge
Hi, Hi, I have inherited a VB.net application. The application is currently developed under Visual Studio 2008 and is a GUI using a bunch of Windows Forms. I would like to be able to run this under Linux and it appears I need Mono to do this. In the documentation, I noticed the

Re: [Mono-list] Creating VB.NET Desktop application

2009-11-03 Thread Rolf Bjarne Kvinge
Hi, Hi All, Sorry if this is an easy question, but im new to Mono and Linux. Im using Ubuntu 9.04 and latest Mono Develop. I have a windows application developed in Visual Studio for my desktop, it is our companies CRM system and as such is vital to our company. I want to port over to

Re: [Mono-list] [Mono-aspnet-list] sqlite questions?

2009-11-03 Thread Gonzalo Paniagua Javier
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 08:35 +, william leader wrote: I would suggest you consider using another database altogether. SQLite is meant to interface with c and c++ programs, neither of which is a language mono supports. [...] I would suggest you do some research before giving advice to other

Re: [Mono-list] [Mono-aspnet-list] sqlite questions?

2009-11-03 Thread Mike Christensen
I'll just have to chime in here and recommend at least taking a brief look at PostgreSQL as well. I tried it out a while back and haven't gone back to either MS SQL or MySQL since.. You'll have no problems getting Mono code to talk with it either. On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:35 AM, william leader

Re: [Mono-list] Mono.Simd in gac but there isnt a gmcs link?

2009-11-03 Thread Gonzalo Paniagua Javier
On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 23:06 -0800, Buttink wrote: Ubuntu 9.10 has Mono 2.4.2.3 WOOT but anyway after installing libmono-simd2.0-cil I can probably run programs that use Simd but gmcs says it doenst have the metadata for Mono.Simd Should I just make my own sym link from the install on in

Re: [Mono-list] Mono.Simd in gac but there isnt a gmcs link?

2009-11-03 Thread Gonzalo Paniagua Javier
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 03:55 -0500, Gonzalo Paniagua Javier wrote: [...] Should I just make my own sym link from the install on in gac or is there a utility to do this [...] Forgot to mention that the link is automatically create when installing the assembly in the GAC if you use the

Re: [Mono-list] [Mono-aspnet-list] sqlite questions?

2009-11-03 Thread Marek Habersack
william leader wrote: I would suggest you consider using another database altogether. SQLite is meant to interface with c and c++ programs, neither of which is a language mono supports. Most asp.net applications are developed for Microsoft SQL server or MySQL server depending on where the

Re: [Mono-list] sqlite questions?

2009-11-03 Thread Marek Habersack
Dale E. Moore wrote: Is this a good place to ask questions about sqlite? Can somebody please tell me where to go;) On SQLite itself - no, in relation to Mono/ASP.NET - yes. Has everybody (or anybody) worked with monodevelop to put together an asp.net http://asp.net application that uses an

[Mono-list] Android

2009-11-03 Thread daniel
What are mono projects plans regarding Android. I see that a basic port has been done but that its not good for much more then a hello world app. I assumed that strategically Android would be more important to mono then the iphone. Given that android has a Linux kernel and is open source, it

Re: [Mono-list] Android

2009-11-03 Thread Casper Bang
I have to at least partly agree with you here daniel, while I would love to develop smartphone applications using C#/Mono, getting an iPhone to do so is not a compromise I'm willing to make. Too expensive for the masses (outside of the US anyway) and way too much dictatorship. Frankly, I think

Re: [Mono-list] [Mono-aspnet-list] sqlite questions?

2009-11-03 Thread Joe Audette
Hi Dale, The latest mojoPortal from our svn trunk repository is pre-configured to use SQLite in MonoDevelop using mojoportal.mds solution. I changed the default db configuration from pgsql recently just because its zero configuration, we inlcude a sqlite database and it just works. You can

Re: [Mono-list] Android

2009-11-03 Thread Thomas Jam Pedersen
Dear All. We are currently porting Mono to Android. (and soon also to ChromeOS) We expect to release the first version in the beginning of next year. (2010) We do this because we need it for Roozz plugin. A technology layer that allow for cross platform development on 6 platforms and

Re: [Mono-list] Android

2009-11-03 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 13:04 +0100, Thomas Jam Pedersen wrote: We are currently porting Mono to Android. (and soon also to ChromeOS) Exciting. (a) I love .NET and (b) I just pre-ordered my Motorola Droid. I really, really, don't want to develop in Java. We expect to release the first version

Re: [Mono-list] VB .NET and default instances

2009-11-03 Thread Styma, Robert E (Robert)
Hi, Hi, I have inherited a VB.net application. The application is currently developed under Visual Studio 2008 and is a GUI using a bunch of Windows Forms. I would like to be able to run this under Linux and it appears I need Mono to do this. In the documentation, I

Re: [Mono-list] [Mono-aspnet-list] sqlite questions?

2009-11-03 Thread Joe Audette
If you are using mojoPortal then you don't have to worry about this, the mojoMembership just talks to business objects which talk to data objects which already know their connection string from the appSettings. If you are using some other membership provider then you probably need to add a

Re: [Mono-list] [Mono-aspnet-list] sqlite questions?

2009-11-03 Thread Dale E. Moore
I'm using the default asp.net membership provider; which works fine in monodevelop, but; does not find the App_Data/aspnetdb.sqlite database when copied to TEST. I copied the mono connectionString, and membership definition into my web.config but then could never login even from monodevelop. I'm

Re: [Mono-list] [Mono-aspnet-list] sqlite questions?

2009-11-03 Thread Daniel Morgan
Npgsql developers have re-licensed Npgsql under the BSD license. http://fxjr.blogspot.com/2007/08/npgsql-license-changed-to-bsd_27.html Npgsql http://npgsql.projects.postgresql.org/ Plus, Npgsql has (copied from the Npgsql web page): # Support for .Net 2.0 and 3.5 # Entity Framework (EF): In

Re: [Mono-list] [Mono-aspnet-list] sqlite questions?

2009-11-03 Thread Francisco Figueiredo Jr.
Yeap, we changed license so it would be more aligned with server license itself and also to help users with commercial products. Although LGPL already allowed them to use Npgsql, they had fears about it. Another motivation was VS.Net design support which may impose some restrictions in code

[Mono-list] Why mono GC does not realloc the heap after collect?

2009-11-03 Thread Alex A Ermoshenko
//Example code //On the NetFarmewort - all work fine //On Mono - ~105MiB in the heap, after GC.Collect(). Expected ~5 MiB using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; namespace mono_gc_test { class Program { static object

Re: [Mono-list] Why mono GC does not realloc the heap after collect?

2009-11-03 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Because Mono does not support a collector like this, it uses a different kind, a conservative collector. //Example code //On the NetFarmewort - all work fine //On Mono - ~105MiB in the heap, after GC.Collect(). Expected ~5 MiB using System; using

Re: [Mono-list] Why mono GC does not realloc the heap after collect?

2009-11-03 Thread Petit Eric
ra, forget the monolist, sorry 2009/11/3 Petit Eric surfz...@gmail.com same if trying to force : //Example code //On the NetFarmework - all work fine //On Mono - ~105MiB in the heap, after GC.Collect(). Expected ~5 MiB using System; using System.Collections.Generic;

Re: [Mono-list] multi-threading operation on Oracle database led to program crash !!!

2009-11-03 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, I used Mono+System.Data.OracleClient+instantclient to access Oracle database in multi-threading way on x64bit SUSE Linux. It would be useful to have a test case to reproduce this issue. Your reply will be highly appreciated! My program run several minutes and crashed and exited

Re: [Mono-list] multi-threading operation on Oracle database led to program crash !!!

2009-11-03 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, Sample repro can be found here: https://bugzillafiles.novell.org/attachment.cgi?id=170208 So this sample without any threads is crashing the Mono runtime? That would point to some P/Invoke signature being wrong. ___ Mono-list maillist -

Re: [Mono-list] Is Mono serious? Is Mono still alive?

2009-11-03 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, I believe Miguel said about a dozen of Novell devs worked on Mono (+ contributors), I don't know much other than that. There are currently some 34 full time developers at Novell working on Mono related technologies: Mono (core, class libraries, compilers), Mono for Visual Studio,

Re: [Mono-list] multi-threading operation on Oracle database led to program crash !!!

2009-11-03 Thread Veerapuram Varadhan
Hi, On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 15:14 -0500, Miguel de Icaza wrote: Hello, Sample repro can be found here: https://bugzillafiles.novell.org/attachment.cgi?id=170208 So this sample without any threads is crashing the Mono runtime? That would point to some P/Invoke signature being wrong.

Re: [Mono-list] Mono.Simd in gac but there isnt a gmcs link?

2009-11-03 Thread David S
While I'm at it, anyone know how Monodevelop sees assemblies?? I can compile at the command line but MD still doesn't see it in the references list. BTW, If I sent this wrong someone tell me. ___ Mono-list maillist - Mono-list@lists.ximian.com

Re: [Mono-list] Android

2009-11-03 Thread daniel
I personally would rather bindings to the android graphics libraries (whatever they are called) then a winforms port which will just look and feel wrong. At work I am a windows mobile developer and develop using the compact framework and I can tell you that winforms on mobile devices sucks big

Re: [Mono-list] Android

2009-11-03 Thread Thomas Jam Pedersen
Thanks for your feedback Daniel. OK, so you don't like winform. (But this is where the majority of developers are worldwide) Would WPF be better for you? Let me tell you what we want. We are not particular focusing on winform. What we want to do, is to make it possible to build an application

Re: [Mono-list] Android

2009-11-03 Thread Stifu
The Mono guys put a theme interface in place for WinForms, which could be used to make WinForms apps look right on Android. Just my 2 cents. Good luck! Thomas Jam Pedersen wrote: Thanks for your feedback Daniel. OK, so you don't like winform. (But this is where the majority of