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VS.Net Apps Can Now Run On Linux

Posted by Hemos on from the where-does-this-live-us dept.

MxTxL writes "EWeek is reporting here about a plugin for Visual Studio.Net, called Grasshopper, that allows web applications that once only ran on IIS to be run on Tomcat or other J2EE platforms. The Mainsoft Developer Zone has more details on how it works but basically it converts the MS Intermediate Language into Java bytecode. The developer is also a supporter of the Mono Project."

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  1. We tried working with Mono... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    An employee suggested to me that we use Mono for a few projects here as an evaluation. I was skeptical at first but he explained the benefits of using it for our developers to wean them from Microsoft's glutches. So I decided to let him install Mono onto 5 machines to see how the developers got on. Besides, our IT manager had been using a Mono in his office and it seemed to work fine, why not try it on the employees?

    Once he'd got the systems up and running with Mono we let the users try it out. It all seemed fine to start with: Mono was a pretty good replacement for .NET on Windows and the developers could still do their work as normal.

    Alas it did not stay that way. After a few days, I had lost count of the number of complaints received from users who could not find things they were used to or tasks they could not perform that they previously could with the Windows server. The final straw came when one employee lost several hours work when the Mono server suddenly had an error reading from our intranet site and corrupted his project.

    Needless to say, the Mono team offered no support whatsoever. I made the employee remove Mono from the offices and lets just say he's not with us anymore.