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.net development on Mac?
So... any other options for developing .net apps on the mac besides using parallelis or bootcamp? I'm trying to avoid putting windows on my mac, but when i have to demo stuff for clients and help some students, i'll need to be able to use visual studio on my MBP.
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Nope, I am pretty sure you are out of luck. Gotta get Windows in some way, Parallels is probably easiest.
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Effectively? If you need to work with .net on a professional basis, I see no reason you wouldn't install Bootcamp on it, or Parallels. There might be some port of Mono for OS X, but I doubt it will be as productive/compatible as using the real thing.
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Effectively? If you need to work with .net on a professional basis, I see no reason you wouldn't install Bootcamp on it, or Parallels. There might be some port of Mono for OS X, but I doubt it will be as productive/compatible as using the real thing.
There is actually a port of Mono I believe, but as you said it is less than impressive from what I hear.
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Ah... I was hoping there was a good .net development tool for mac. Guess not.
Stupid MS... oh well, thanks guys :)
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Why are you blaming Microsoft for this problem? The existence of .NET can be tied directly to Sun's lawsuits.
Unless MS marketing did some pretty nasty lying, .NET has been primarily Windows-only. If you've heard that it's cross-platform from Microsoft, that's true -- just across Microsoft platforms and across CPUs.
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Why are you blaming Microsoft for this problem? The existence of .NET can be tied directly to Sun's lawsuits.
Unless MS marketing did some pretty nasty lying, .NET has been primarily Windows-only. If you've heard that it's cross-platform from Microsoft, that's true -- just across Microsoft platforms and across CPUs.
Since it's the same architecture now, there should be a IDE/IDK for .net that mac can use. I'm pretty **** sure that MS could do that if they want.
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Why would they want to waste money on a minority platform? They have zero obligation to do so, especially when people can use other ways of using .NET that involve a Windows license.
It makes little business sense. If they continued to maintain their CLR and the Framework on OS X, developers could download the SDK (if it's free) or buy the IDE and make their software work in OS X, then redistribute their software. It's psosible that no porting would be required for applications that don't touch certain parts of the Framework. That does not sound like a good move for Microsoft's OS market share.
There are also technical difficulties. Much of the existing .NET Framework (especially System.Windows.Forms) wraps around Win32 functionality. They would have to reimplement much of this functionality. (Except for Mono, other implementations of .NET have focused mainly on the CLR and C# compilers -- including DotGNU and Microsoft's own Rotor shared-source CLR.)
Their upcoming "WinFX"/.NET Framework 3.0 product is an entirely new API designed to replace the old Win32 API. It would make no sense at all to port this to OS X because suddenly people would be able to use OS X to run much of the latest Windows software.