Re: Winforms development on linux?

> Jonathan Pobst wrote:
>> There is not a functioning winforms designer for Linux.  You can of
>> course do it by hand, but I doubt that's realistic.
>>
>> For a winforms designer, I suggest SharpDevelop or Visual Studio on
>> Windows.  Then you can simply copy your code or assemblies over to
>> Linux and run them
> You may want to pay attention to Wine news about running Visual Studio
> 2005. Looks like they're getting close.
> http://www.winehq.org/?issue=342#Several%20Big%20Applications%20now%20working%20in%20Wine! 
>
> Visual Studio Express Edition is free (as in beer).
>
> Running SharpDevelop natively on Mono on Linux is not possible due to
> extensive use of pinvokes.
>
> Finally, a winforms designer is a very requested feature for
> Monodevelop, and they have one in mind.
> http://foodformonkeys.blogspot.com/2007/11/monodevelop-survey-results.html
> http://www.monodevelop.com/Survey_Results_2007
>
> However, it looks like there's no easy way to do it and the effort seems
> stalled.
> http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2007/08/25/linux-based-windows-forms-designer-for-mono 
>
> http://i-nz.net/2007/08/23/monodesign-winforms-designer-report/
>
> I, for one, use Visual C# Express Edition on Windows for all my visual
> design needs. Once I designed all my forms Monodevelop can open and
> build my projects including the forms designed by VS.
>
> Regards,
> Ernesto
>
>
>