Software written in .Net

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?

Frank
Fri Dec 10 12:08:56 CST 2004

Patrick wrote:
> 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?

.NET/.NET Applications doen't not run on a mac, sorry.


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Morten
Fri Dec 10 12:34:36 CST 2004

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 19:08:56 +0100, Frank Eller <fe[NOSPAM]@frankeller.de>
wrote:

> Patrick wrote:
>> 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?
>
> .NET/.NET Applications doen't not run on a mac, sorry.
>
>

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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Eric
Fri Dec 10 13:30:59 CST 2004

"Morten Wennevik" <MortenWennevik@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:opsis1vy1iklbvpo@pbn_computer:

> On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 19:08:56 +0100, Frank Eller
> <fe[NOSPAM]@frankeller.de> wrote:
>
> Well, not entirely true. There is Mono that enables you to run .net
> programs on Mac and Linux
> http://www.go-mono.org
>

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)


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NoSpamMgbworld
Fri Dec 10 14:39:01 CST 2004

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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Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

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"Patrick" wrote:

> 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?

Frank
Sat Dec 11 13:15:21 CST 2004

Morten Wennevik wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 19:08:56 +0100, Frank Eller
> <fe[NOSPAM]@frankeller.de> wrote:
>
>> Patrick wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> .NET/.NET Applications doen't not run on a mac, sorry.
>>
>>
>
> Well, not entirely true. There is Mono that enables you to run .net
> programs on Mac and Linux
> http://www.go-mono.org

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,

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Frank Eller
www.frankeller.de

W
Sat Dec 11 17:48:29 CST 2004

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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"Frank Eller" <fe[NOSPAM]@frankeller.de> wrote in message
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> Morten Wennevik wrote:
> > On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 19:08:56 +0100, Frank Eller
> > <fe[NOSPAM]@frankeller.de> wrote:
> >
> >> Patrick wrote:
> >>> 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?
> >>
> >> .NET/.NET Applications doen't not run on a mac, sorry.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Well, not entirely true. There is Mono that enables you to run .net
> > programs on Mac and Linux
> > http://www.go-mono.org
>
> 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,
>
> --
> Frank Eller
> www.frankeller.de
>
>