eramgarden Posted April 20, 2004 Posted April 20, 2004 .Net applications cant be used on Mac?? Someone is writing an application using Java, he said .Net apps cant be used on Mac, that's why he's developing in Java... Quote
MorningZ Posted April 20, 2004 Posted April 20, 2004 Why is it such a surprise to you? .NET apps (Windows or Web) need .NET Framework, which is a Windows-only thing Quote If you make it idiot proof, they'll build a better idiot :-)
wessamzeidan Posted April 20, 2004 Posted April 20, 2004 We're waiting for new versions of the .NET Framework that work on platforms other than Windows (Linux, Mac....etc) Quote Proudly a Palestinian Microsoft ASP.NET MVP My Blog: wessamzeidan.net
MorningZ Posted April 20, 2004 Posted April 20, 2004 lol.. you'll be waiting a long long long while i bet...... Quote If you make it idiot proof, they'll build a better idiot :-)
wessamzeidan Posted April 20, 2004 Posted April 20, 2004 You never know, linux is becomming more popular for desktop pc users, microsoft might find itself forced to develope a version of .NET Frame for linux... Quote Proudly a Palestinian Microsoft ASP.NET MVP My Blog: wessamzeidan.net
Arch4ngel Posted April 20, 2004 Posted April 20, 2004 Microsoft is never forced. Microsoft force things. Microsoft will never devellop .NET Framework for Linux or Mac. If they do... their .NET develloper will go on another platform than Windows. Develloper moving ? They gain less money. You see the point ? Forget it man. Quote "If someone say : "Die mortal !"... don't stay to see if he isn't." - Unknown "Learning to program is like going out with a new girl friend. There's always something that wasn't mentioned in the documentation..." - Me "A drunk girl is like an animal... it scream at everything like a cat and roll in the grass like a dog." - Me after seeing my girlfriend drunk and some of her drunk friend. C# TO VB TRANSLATOR
wessamzeidan Posted April 21, 2004 Posted April 21, 2004 I didn't say they'll develop another version of .NET Framework just because they wanna develope it. I said Linux is getting popular, some universities here already converted to linux. I'm with you that Microsoft forces things,but you never know man, things change...... Quote Proudly a Palestinian Microsoft ASP.NET MVP My Blog: wessamzeidan.net
Administrators PlausiblyDamp Posted April 21, 2004 Administrators Posted April 21, 2004 http://www.go-mono.com http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3A1C93FA-7462-47D0-8E56-8DD34C6292F0&displaylang=en http://www.southern-storm.com.au/portable_net.html http://www.dotgnu.org/ Quote Posting Guidelines FAQ Post Formatting Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them. -- Albert Einstein
wessamzeidan Posted April 21, 2004 Posted April 21, 2004 Thanks PlausiblyDamp Quote Proudly a Palestinian Microsoft ASP.NET MVP My Blog: wessamzeidan.net
Arch4ngel Posted April 21, 2004 Posted April 21, 2004 Well... they make their core free to download... They didn't do their framework to other platforms but they offer the occasion. I wasn't wrong!!... but I never though they would give their core. Well... maybe I was wrong a little! "Accepting and error is an error partly corrected" no? Quote "If someone say : "Die mortal !"... don't stay to see if he isn't." - Unknown "Learning to program is like going out with a new girl friend. There's always something that wasn't mentioned in the documentation..." - Me "A drunk girl is like an animal... it scream at everything like a cat and roll in the grass like a dog." - Me after seeing my girlfriend drunk and some of her drunk friend. C# TO VB TRANSLATOR
wessamzeidan Posted April 21, 2004 Posted April 21, 2004 I had this thought in my mind for a long time. When Microsoft announced the .NET Framework, I felt(and thats my opinion) that its protecting itself from any expected changes in the market in the future. What if, for some reason, people stopped using Windows and moved to another new operating system thats developed by another company. Most of microsoft products won't work on that new operating system. So what it would is, develope a .NET Framework that would run on that operating so that people would still use its technologies......... I'm probably wrong, but its just an opinion Quote Proudly a Palestinian Microsoft ASP.NET MVP My Blog: wessamzeidan.net
Arch4ngel Posted April 21, 2004 Posted April 21, 2004 Yes. It seems a good tactic from Microsoft. Sorry for my error. Didn't see any advantage to MS. :p Quote "If someone say : "Die mortal !"... don't stay to see if he isn't." - Unknown "Learning to program is like going out with a new girl friend. There's always something that wasn't mentioned in the documentation..." - Me "A drunk girl is like an animal... it scream at everything like a cat and roll in the grass like a dog." - Me after seeing my girlfriend drunk and some of her drunk friend. C# TO VB TRANSLATOR
*Experts* Bucky Posted April 21, 2004 *Experts* Posted April 21, 2004 This might be a little obvious, but since this in the ASP.NET forum I'll point out that Web Applications developed in ASP.NET (once hosted) can be accessed from any system that has a web browser. This is also the beauty of XML Web Services: they are inherently platform-independent. Quote "Being grown up isn't half as fun as growing up These are the best days of our lives" -The Ataris, In This Diary
iebidan Posted April 21, 2004 Posted April 21, 2004 Bucky, any system that has a web browser compatible with IE, some .NET web apps will not work correctly on Netscape or Opera Quote Fat kids are harder to kidnap
wessamzeidan Posted April 21, 2004 Posted April 21, 2004 ASP.NET should be hosted on a windows server too, so the output is only platform independent, not the application itself Quote Proudly a Palestinian Microsoft ASP.NET MVP My Blog: wessamzeidan.net
GMMorris Posted May 15, 2004 Posted May 15, 2004 true, but when it come to developing web apps, its the output that matters. Unlike normal apps, web apps are run on one simgle point, so as long as that point is compatible - you don't have a problem. With normal apps you need to run it on every single computer, so you need compatibility. Quote Latly it would seem as though I'm don't abnegate from anything... except women. :( :)
bri189a Posted May 19, 2004 Posted May 19, 2004 Wow... I heard rumors in the past but I never thought they were true... that really opens up a lot of possibilities for us C# programmers... imagine the possiblities... being able to develop cross platform applications and not have to spend four hours making a form in C++. From what I read it seems only the 'popular' and 'most-used' libraries are the only one's available... if you wanted to do something is System.Management, or System.Web, or some of the lesser used namespaces you would still need to be on a Microsoft box... is that correct? Quote
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