Microsoft's .NET Framework CLI implementation isn't the only CLI development game in town. The Mono project is both surprisingly mature, and surprisingly compatible—and you can deliver applications built on it to multiple platforms, including Windows.
by Andrew Troelsen
June 21, 2006
any .NET developers, accustomed to Microsoft's Windows-only development tools' capabilities, are quite surprised when they learn that .NET is platform-independent. But it's true. You can compile and execute .NET assemblies on operating systems other than Microsoft Windows. Currently, Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX, and numerous flavors of Unix/Linux can be happy homes for your .NET binaries.
Even after developers are made aware of .NET code's cross-platform capabilities, they often assume that the scope of platform-independent .NET development is limited to little more than "Hello World" console applications. Here's the reality. Today, you can build production-ready assemblies that make use of ADO.NET, Windows Forms (in addition to alternative GUI toolkits such as Gtk#), ASP.NET, and XML Web services.
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any .NET developers, accustomed to Microsoft's Windows-only development tools' capabilities, are quite surprised when they learn that .NET is platform-independent. But it's true. You can compile and execute .NET assemblies on operating systems other than Microsoft Windows. Currently, Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX, and numerous flavors of Unix/Linux can be happy homes for your .NET binaries.
