Winforms development on linux?

[gbrethen]

I am a noob here, so be patient with me.  Is there a way to develope winforms app on a linux system?  I am running openSUSE 10.3, mono installed, monodevelop, and I have even tried mwf-designer to no avail...  Anyone who is successfully developing winforms on linux, if you could let me know the steps I need to take to achieve this, would be greatly appreciated!

[Jonathan Pobst]

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.

Jonathan


gbrethen wrote:
> I am a noob here, so be patient with me.  Is there a way to develope winforms
> app on a linux system?  I am running openSUSE 10.3, mono installed,
> monodevelop, and I have even tried mwf-designer to no avail...  Anyone who
> is successfully developing winforms on linux, if you could let me know the
> steps I need to take to achieve this, would be greatly appreciated!

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and...the compile doesn't work without a special link

missing link ln -s libgdiplus.so.0.0.0 libgdiplus.so

and then copious run time messages
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> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:26:22 -0500
> From: monkey@...
> To: gbrethen@...
> CC: mono-winforms-list@...
> Subject: Re: [Mono-winforms-list] Winforms development on linux?
>
> 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.
>
> Jonathan
>
>
> gbrethen wrote:
>> I am a noob here, so be patient with me.  Is there a way to develope winforms
>> app on a linux system?  I am running openSUSE 10.3, mono installed,
>> monodevelop, and I have even tried mwf-designer to no avail...  Anyone who
>> is successfully developing winforms on linux, if you could let me know the
>> steps I need to take to achieve this, would be greatly appreciated!
>
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[cloudbuster]

command line:
gmcs Form1.cs -r:System.Windows.Forms -r:System.Drawing -r:System.Data

this works with generics and some other .NET 2.0 features

or

under the option icon
development->monodevelop open the .sln file from Visual Studio

Problem is the missing link gmcs Form1.cs -r:System.Windows.Forms -r:System.Drawing -r:System.Data

for compile and copious runtime errors
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> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 15:22:25 -0800
> From: gbrethen@...
> To: mono-winforms-list@...
> Subject: [Mono-winforms-list]  Winforms development on linux?
>
>
> I am a noob here, so be patient with me.  Is there a way to develope winforms
> app on a linux system?  I am running openSUSE 10.3, mono installed,
> monodevelop, and I have even tried mwf-designer to no avail...  Anyone who
> is successfully developing winforms on linux, if you could let me know the
> steps I need to take to achieve this, would be greatly appreciated!
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[Jonathan Pobst]

I assume you meant to send this to the list.  ;)

Jonathan

Ernesto wrote:

> 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
>
>
>

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[Ernesto-18]

Jonathan Pobst wrote:
> I assume you meant to send this to the list.  ;)
>  

Yes, thanks. I keep making the same mistake and wondering why this list
doesn't set the reply-to address.

Ernesto

> Jonathan
>
> Ernesto wrote:
>  
>> 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.
>>
>>    

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