cross platform development

**Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)** · Jul 11 '07, 03:05 PM

Re: cross platform development

Hi,

<kvram@passagen .sewrote in message
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Hello,
>
Sorry if i repeat this question but when i serached this group, the
latest relevant information belonged tio July 2006.

That was a year ago, what is wrong with that?

Ok the question: I
have a friend who wants me to develop a customer-inventory management
system for her. She uses MacOSX (Tiger). I use Windows XP. So i
searched the internet and it turned out that there are 2 development
solutions available for this purpose. The Rotor and the Mono project.
What i wonder is which one is better to use since this software will
have database connectivity and a rather rich GUI. I understand that
they both are under-development projects so the question is mostly
relvevant to their current status.

You would get better result by consulting the sites for both projects. I
have never used them.

I can give you another solution though. Take a look at www.parallels.com ,
it lets you run a windows VM in OSX, nothing new here, except that it has a
mode named "coherence" it let you run win apps directly in the OSX desktop.
It's a good option to look into.

**kvram@passagen.se** · Jul 11 '07, 06:15 PM

Re: cross platform development

On 11 Juli, 16:53, "Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)" <machin TA
laceupsolutions .comwrote:

Hi,
>
<k...@passagen. sewrote in message
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>

Hello,

>

Sorry if i repeat this question but when i serached this group, the
latest relevant information belonged tio July 2006.

>
That was a year ago, what is wrong with that?
>

Ok the question: I
have a friend who wants me to develop a customer-inventory management
system for her. She uses MacOSX (Tiger). I use Windows XP. So i
searched the internet and it turned out that there are 2 development
solutions available for this purpose. The Rotor and the Mono project.
What i wonder is which one is better to use since this software will
have database connectivity and a rather rich GUI. I understand that
they both are under-development projects so the question is mostly
relvevant to their current status.

>
You would get better result by consulting the sites for both projects. I
have never used them.
>
I can give you another solution though. Take a look atwww.parallels .com ,
it lets you run a windows VM in OSX, nothing new here, except that it has a
mode named "coherence" it let you run win apps directly in the OSX desktop.
It's a good option to look into.

Thanks for your answer! I had totally forgot about VMs!

regards,
kave

**R. K. Wijayaratne** · Jul 12 '07, 04:55 AM

Re: cross platform development

Hi,

My understanding of Mono is that .NET FW 1.1 equivalent funationality
is already available in it and .NET FW 2.0 funtionality is already or
almost complete (double check both these though).

With Rotor I read that the licensing is pretty restrictive interms of
usage, although I am not sure whether this refers to the using of the
framework for running apps or something else.

There is also the database issue to conside. MySQL is the only one
that comes to mind that would run on both platforms.

RKW.

http://coding-help.blogspot.com/

On Jul 12, 12:37 am, k...@passagen.s e wrote:

Hello,
>
Sorry if i repeat this question but when i serached this group, the
latest relevant information belonged tio July 2006. Ok the question: I
have a friend who wants me to develop a customer-inventory management
system for her. She uses MacOSX (Tiger). I use Windows XP. So i
searched the internet and it turned out that there are 2 development
solutions available for this purpose. The Rotor and the Mono project.
What i wonder is which one is better to use since this software will
have database connectivity and a rather rich GUI. I understand that
they both are under-development projects so the question is mostly
relvevant to their current status.
>
Thanks for your time and thoughts,
kave

**=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=** · Aug 20 '07, 01:05 AM

Re: cross platform development

kvram@passagen. se wrote:

Sorry if i repeat this question but when i serached this group, the
latest relevant information belonged tio July 2006. Ok the question: I
have a friend who wants me to develop a customer-inventory management
system for her. She uses MacOSX (Tiger). I use Windows XP. So i
searched the internet and it turned out that there are 2 development
solutions available for this purpose. The Rotor and the Mono project.
What i wonder is which one is better to use since this software will
have database connectivity and a rather rich GUI. I understand that
they both are under-development projects so the question is mostly
relvevant to their current status.

You should definitely use Mono and not Rotor if you go
that route.

But I am somewhat skeptical about developing on MS .NET/Win XP
for Mono/MacOSX.

Even though most is compatible, then there are still quite
some gaps.

You should probably get access to a MacOSX system and develop
on that or as a minimum use Mono on another platform.

Or choose Java ...

Arne

**Rad [Visual C# MVP]** · Aug 20 '07, 01:05 PM

Re: cross platform development

On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 21:05:05 -0400, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.d k>
wrote:

>kvram@passagen .se wrote:

>Sorry if i repeat this question but when i serached this group, the
>latest relevant information belonged tio July 2006. Ok the question: I
>have a friend who wants me to develop a customer-inventory management
>system for her. She uses MacOSX (Tiger). I use Windows XP. So i
>searched the internet and it turned out that there are 2 development
>solutions available for this purpose. The Rotor and the Mono project.
>What i wonder is which one is better to use since this software will
>have database connectivity and a rather rich GUI. I understand that
>they both are under-development projects so the question is mostly
>relvevant to their current status.

>
>You should definitely use Mono and not Rotor if you go
>that route.
>
>But I am somewhat skeptical about developing on MS .NET/Win XP
>for Mono/MacOSX.
>
>Even though most is compatible, then there are still quite
>some gaps.
>
>You should probably get access to a MacOSX system and develop
>on that or as a minimum use Mono on another platform.
>
>Or choose Java ...
>
>Arne

You'll probably have issues with the "rich GUI" element I'm afraid.
Using Mono will force you to sacrifice a lot of the rich controls and
components made by third parties and make do with the defaults

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