Cross-platform .NET applications--do you need them, particularly for Web applications that already run code in multiple browsers running on almost any platform? What do you think about this article? Was the test application sufficiently robust? Do you regard it as proof of future near-total platform compatibility or just a proof of concept? Will the Mono project be able to keep up with Microsoft's relentless versioning and the increasing capabilities of ASP.NET, or will they inevitably remain at tleast one version behind? Let us know in the .NET discussion forum on DevX.
Almost Too Easy! Creating Cross-Platform ASP.NET Applications Using Mono
Running basic ASP.NET applications on other platforms using Novell's open-source Mono project is as easy as copying the files to the new system. For ASP.NET 1.x authors, cross-platform code is fast becoming a reality.
by Paul Ferrill
September 2, 2004
he dream of cross-platform applications has been a holy grail of development since the dawn of the computer age. Most recently, the Java platform with its "Write once, run anywhere" is the promised end result of adopting the Sun philosophy. Java does deliver on those promises for the most part, but does so only at the cost of changing development platforms—a cost far too high for many developers steeped in the Microsoft way.
Microsoft's Visual Studio makes it easy to develop Web-based applications using their ASP.NET environment. Until recently that meant you would have to host those applications on a system running Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS). Now, however, thanks to the release of Mono 1.0 that restriction has been lifted.
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he dream of cross-platform applications has been a holy grail of development since the dawn of the computer age. Most recently, the Java platform with its "Write once, run anywhere" is the promised end result of adopting the Sun philosophy. Java does deliver on those promises for the most part, but does so only at the cost of changing development platforms—a cost far too high for many developers steeped in the Microsoft way.
