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Non-Windows platforms ahoy

By Tim Anderson in Barcelona

Published Monday 5th November 2007 20:14 GMT

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Mono?

By Robert

Posted Monday 5th November 2007 21:50 GMT

Why the heck would you need a separate "back end" to Visual Studio to target Mono? Isn't the main goal of Mono to allow you to run .NET applications unmodified on a non-Windows platform?

what what?

By Anonymous Coward

Posted Tuesday 6th November 2007 00:38 GMT

I want computers to start writing their own programs this is a step backwards.

Mono

By Tim Anderson

Posted Tuesday 6th November 2007 07:43 GMT

> Isn't the main goal of Mono to allow you to run .NET applications unmodified on a non-Windows platform?

That is a goal; but how about a designer for Gtk#, for example?

Tim

VS supported for non MS platforms for years.

By ssu

Posted Tuesday 6th November 2007 09:06 GMT

Embedded developers have been using Visual Studio for non MS OS embedded platforms for many years, e.g. Phar Lap ETS. Phar Lap ETS has a tool chain that integrates into Visual Studio. As MS says its the SDK rules that have now changed.