Re: [Mono-list] Mono and its limitations

2009-04-02 Thread Danny
All of the answers so far are right on. And it's funny that you should ask about those specific things because right now that's about ALL my application does. It polls data from COM ports (soon to be USB ports too) and stores it in a home-grown XML data store, which makes heavy use of stream

Re: [Mono-list] Mono and its limitations

2009-04-02 Thread Stifu
You can sometimes use environment paths, such as System.Environment.GetFolderPath(DesktopDirectory)... This is not always possible, though (see: http://www.go-mono.com/docs/index.aspx?link=T%3ASystem.Environment.SpecialFolder). When defining your paths yourself (and that they are the same for all

Re: [Mono-list] Mono and its limitations

2009-04-02 Thread Alan McGovern
Hey, > In my application I often use serial ports or read/write access to files: > how the code could successfully run either on Windows or Linux? They are > quite different: for example Windows calls the serial ports "COM" but in > Linux I have to look under /dev... So I can't understand how the

Re: [Mono-list] Mono and its limitations

2009-04-02 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 05:20 -0700, Marco Trapanese wrote: > Danny-113 wrote: > > You English seems pretty OK to me. To your question (which others may > > be able to answer with greater detail): I've been successfully writing > > code on Windows and running it on Linux (Ubuntu+Mono) for over a y

Re: [Mono-list] Mono and its limitations

2009-04-02 Thread Marco Trapanese
Danny-113 wrote: > > You English seems pretty OK to me. To your question (which others may > be able to answer with greater detail): I've been successfully writing > code on Windows and running it on Linux (Ubuntu+Mono) for over a year > now. It seems that the Mono guys have done a pretty

Re: [Mono-list] Mono and its limitations

2009-04-01 Thread Danny
You English seems pretty OK to me. To your question (which others may be able to answer with greater detail): I've been successfully writing code on Windows and running it on Linux (Ubuntu+Mono) for over a year now. It seems that the Mono guys have done a pretty good job at making a runtime t

[Mono-list] Mono and its limitations

2009-04-01 Thread Marco Trapanese
Hello, I'm from Italy and I'm sorry if my English is not so good. I hope it's good enough to explain whatever I'm going to say :-) I'm new to Mono and I read through the forum and the website. Anyway I'm not sure I understood all its qualities and limitations. To simplify the question, let me t

Re: [Mono-list] Mono and its limitations

2009-03-31 Thread Stifu
You don't need to use the Mono IDE (MonoDevelop) in order to make cross-platform applications. You can simply use Visual Studio. Besides, using MonoDevelop on Windows isn't (easily) possible yet. Solutions are compatible between Visual Studio and MonoDevelop, too (at least C# ones are, I guess the