Building Robust UIs in Mono with Gtk#

Learn to use the native Gtk# GUI toolkit to build Mono-based desktop applications today.

by Andrew Troelsen

August 29, 2006

ust as Microsoft provides a native desktop UI toolkit called Windows Forms that ships with Microsoft .NET, the Mono project provides a compatible implementation of this same API, making it possible to build Windows Forms-based applications that run under a variety of operating systems.

Author's Note: When this article was written, Mono's implementation of Windows Forms had not yet been finalized (see this blog to view the current status of the project).

Even though Mono's Windows Forms implementation is not yet feature-complete you can use Mono to build robust desktop applications today by choosing an alternative API (see Table 1).

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