Re: OT: Virtual PC 7 / Visual Studio 2003
Re: OT: Virtual PC 7 / Visual Studio 2003
- Subject: Re: OT: Virtual PC 7 / Visual Studio 2003
- From: Florent Pillet <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 16:30:38 +0100
On 28 déc. 05, at 21:24, Eric Albert wrote:
Yeah...Microsoft's Rotor is hardly a "version of .NET" -- it's a
cut-down version that's basically the CLR and not much more, and
I'm not sure it runs on Tiger. You can't really do interesting
application development with it. (And that's not me talking from
an Apple perspective -- I worked on Rotor.)
If you want to develop .NET applications across multiple platforms,
Mono's your best choice.
Rotor dates back to 2002 and is severely outdated WRT .NET 2.0 / C#
2.0. I wouldn't recommend using it. I haven't used Mono, but reading
this: http://www.mono-project.com/WinForms, it seems to me that Mono
is currently where GNUStep is at: a reliable back-end set of classes,
but a still in-progress front-end that doesn't currently fully works.
Which means that if your plan is to write cross-platform GUI apps
using System.Windows.Forms, think twice. The Mono roadmap states that
the goal for the 1.0 release (without .NET 2.0 support) is Q1/2006
and version 2.0 targets Q4/2006 (with full support for .NET 2.0),
provided they meet their schedule.
In other words, .NET is not a good cross-platform choice right now.
The only one I know of that works well is RealBasic (forget the
"basic" moniker, it's a good object-oriented language with excellent
cross-platform UI support, much better than C++ solutions like Qt).
Besides, I used to do some Windows work using Remote Desktop
Connection. While this is a good solution for basic needs, using
Visual Studio with it is kindof a pain because (especially in VS2005)
of the large number of screen refreshes that ususally go unnoticed
when you work on the PC but that take a significant amount of time
when working remotely.
Florent
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Freelance software developer/consultant - Palm OS & Mac OS X
Skype callto://florent.pillet
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