Software written in .Net

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If software is written in .Net technology, is it possible for that
application to operate on a Mac. I know no one with a Mac, can't test it,
and don't know where to turn. Does anyone have any advice? If I am being to
vague let me know I will elaborate a bit more. Please help?
 
Patrick said:
If software is written in .Net technology, is it possible for that
application to operate on a Mac. I know no one with a Mac, can't
test it, and don't know where to turn. Does anyone have any advice?
If I am being to vague let me know I will elaborate a bit more.
Please help?
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..NET/.NET Applications doen't not run on a mac, sorry.
 
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 19:08:56 +0100, Frank Eller

Well, not entirely true. There is Mono that enables you to run .net
programs on Mac and Linux
http://www.go-mono.org
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But there are VERY limitied packages or support for it. And it does require
extra software to be running on the Mac. There are 3 ways to do it in Mono,
using GTK# (not really supported in OS-X but can run with the X11 Jaguar
add-on), and Graphite# or there's another project that I found that the Mac
can use natively.

Basically, even using Mono, .NET WinForms are not mac-friendly, and are NOT
easily portable.

Web stuff, and ASP.NET can run on a Mac web server that supports Mono.
(Like Apache or some of the other upstart web servers that are out there)
 
Mac is BSD based. The Rotor project can be compiled for BSD and mono will run
on UNIX based systems, I believe. So, yes, it is possible, but I am not sure
how much functionality is ported at present.


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Morten said:
Well, not entirely true. There is Mono that enables you to run .net
programs on Mac and Linux
http://www.go-mono.org
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I think mono a pretty good approach to make .NET really system-independent,
but it is too limited so far (speaking ofwindows.forms-applications). So
IMHO: absolutely _no_ chance for a real-world .NET-Application to run on a
Mac. Even if you get it to run (with several additional software), try to
deploy it ...

Regards,
 
I couldn't Disagree more. Have you actually tried it yet? I'll agree that
Winforms is anticlimactic, but it's still doable and winforms are but one
tiny component of .NET
 
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