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DotGNU Ported to PocketPC

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the little-yellow-different dept.

t3rmin4t0r writes "The Pocket PC# group has ported DotGNU Portable.net to PocketPC. This is a significant step because the .NET Compact Framework SDK is heavily licensed, unlike the .NET SDK available for free from MSDN. Thanks to PocketPC#, now you can build Window.Forms C# applications for PocketPC without submitting to Microsoft's exhorbitant SDK licensing fees. Portability to embedded/low-end hardware is one of Portable.net's stated goals. DotGNU Portable.net also works on 9 major CPU architectures according to gentoo's portage. The Darwin-ports features a cool package with Windows.Forms for Mac OS X. Handhelds like iPAQ or Zaurus have also ports (the iPAQ one features Windows.Forms). Esoteric hardware like the Sony Playstation 2 or the Microsoft XBox can also run Portable.net."

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  1. c# is teh schizzle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    C# is superior in every respect to Java, including 1.5.

    I'm really hoping Gnome chooses c# as their new development language. Havoc Pennington is a fawking genius.

  2. Re:Good News! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    You will NOT do a game in this. No way. No how. Hangman maybe but even that would be slow.

  3. Re:Take a lesson from IBM, Novell by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I've got some numbers for you.

    We have been working on switching our old Win32 based client-server application to a web based model. We started with Java and IBM Websphere.

    It just wouldn't perform. Unacceptably slow.

    Then we discovered .NET. We saw a 900% increase in performance almost immediately.

    Now we've grown our market share by over 20% - all thanks to our new architecture and .NET.

  4. Yet another clone from the OS world by ehack · · Score: -1, Troll

    We had a clone (gcc) of the proprietary (Bell Labs) C language, a clone (Linux) of the proprietary (Bell) Unix system.

    Now the leading OS of the day is this lousy Microsoft stuff, and Open Source developers are "giving" us clones of the horrible Microsoft software.

    Pretty please, could we have something new, or at least something pleasant to use ? More Microsoft interface clones do not in my book make the world a better place.

    And yes, I know you will class this as a troll, but frankly as a beta-tester of Berkeley Unix back in 1983 I got exactly the same functionality then as I get from Linix now. Your moderation will not make this sad truth go away.

    Edmund

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    1. Re:Yet another clone from the OS world by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      I don't like what you're saying. I have absolutely no counter-arguments, so next time I have modpoints, watch out!

  5. Re:Take a lesson from IBM, Novell by AaronLawrence · · Score: -1, Troll

    Is that meant to sound like a sales pitch? Cause it does. Nice astroturfing.

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  6. Mod parent down! Contains Goatse and Freinds by anonymous+coword · · Score: -1, Troll

    Enough said.

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  7. C# suck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I cant believe Slashdot would post this story. C# is a horrible terrible language. It is surely never going to be a great savior like JAVA. Plus it came from Micros$loth the evil empire, doesnt that rule it out completely anyway. MANLY PROGRAMMARS USE JAVA!

  8. C# just sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    .Net and C# is still like VB very immature and sucks like hell.
    I still prefer java and J2ME over .Not.