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New Mono 1.2 Now Supports WinForms
smbarbour writes "The Mono project (the open-source .NET compatibility library acquired by Novell when Ximian was purchased) has released version 1.2. They are now including support for WinForms. Ars Technica has a detailed rundown on the new release. The Mono project supports Visual Basic.NET as well, so developers that use VB.NET now have the possibility of directly porting applications to Linux." From the article: "Relatively high memory consumption and performance bottlenecks are commonly perceived as being amongst Mono's most significant weaknesses. Some critics frequently refer to various performance issues to support arguments against broader adoption of Mono technology in open source projects, most notably within the GNOME community. The performance improvements in Mono 1.2 could potentially address such criticisms, but it is likely that a lot more work will be required before the problems are completely resolved."
It uses less memory than Mono and has very mature gui compoenents in swing and awt that just work across platforms.
http://saveie6.com/
I took a shot at removing Mono from a Suse 10.0 (retail) system and it informed me that removing it would break almost every package.
Mono is latched into Suse like a tick. Can it be removed at all?
Or do I need to just reinstall from scratch and deselect mono during the setup?
I really resent this entire situation.
I do NOT want M$ compatibility or inter-operability.
I LIKE the incompatibility and non inter-operability. To me, that's the best thing about Linux.
I'm a developer who uses both .NET 3.0 and previous version. I'm very glad that they decided to call it .Net 3.0 and not just an extension to 2.0. It makes it much easier to explain to customers.