Do you have Mono?
Responding to a recent comment by farmerbob, I decided to investigate The Mono Project. According to the website…
Mono provides the necessary software to develop and run .NET client and server applications on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix.
Excited about the prospect of building .NET applications on my Apple iMac, I went straight for a link labeled “Multi-platform”, and then clicked on “Mac OS X”
I downloaded the Mac .dmg and then read the steps involved with installation and use. In addition to the framework, there were an additional six installs to perform to get the development environment up and running. The steps looked pretty scary and I decided not to jump in with both feet without a little more research.
After a little more looking around it appears that Mono is geared more towards Linux application development. I can’t tell if it would be useful for web development or not. I don’t need another framework to learn, but I think it would be cool (in a super geeky kind of way) to be able to develop .NET apps on my Mac. Is anyone else doing this?
I think that (Gnome-hacker) Mikael Hallendal ( http://micke.hallendal.net/ ) does that.
At least I know he uses a Mac and he has written Blam ( http://developer.imendio.com/wiki/Blam ) , which is in Mono..
Also there is a initiative to port GTK to run native on OSX, so you can write cross-platform Mono apps using just GTK.
But if you are only looking for .aspx support, I can’t help much. It works nicely for .Net 1.1 web-apps.
Comment on April 16, 2006 @ 2:41 am
Bjarke - thanks for the links/references…going to check their sites now!
Comment on April 16, 2006 @ 6:55 pm