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.NET Reflector for Mono

Is there an equivalent of .NET Reflector for Mono? Quick googling did not find anything... Or can I run Reflector on Mono (say, in Mac OS X)? ...

Open Default browser with Mono+gtk#

I need to open an url from my application, on both linux and windows and i want to avoid replacing an existing page on an open browser. How do i call for it to open? I know i can use System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("http://mysite.com"); which should also work under linux, but this will replace any page shown on an already open brow...

MessageDialog not closing

I'm using the following code to show a message dialog in my application : MessageDialog dialog = new MessageDialog(null, DialogFlags.Modal, MessageType.Error, ButtonsType.Ok, ...

Has anybody used any AOP products under Mono?

I'm looking into using PostSharp on one of my projects. The complicating factor is that I need PostSharp to work on both Windows x64 and Linux x64/Mono. According to the available info for PostSharp, you can compile on Windows/.NET and run under both .NET and Mono. The question is this: can I perform PostSharp builds on Linux/Mono? ...

setup for multi platform app

Let's say you have an app in Mono .net implementation. Now you want to create a setup - that targets multiple platforms(mac,linux, windows). What would you use to create such setup? Are out there any oss projects? Targeting only windows is easy - i would use WiX... ...

Mono: MONO_THEME has no effect under Ubuntu?

I am not entirely sure whether MONO_THEME is supposed to do anything for WinForms applications running under Ubuntu, but I got the impression that I should be able to enable GNOME-like looks by using it. I can't get it to do that though. Here's what I tried: export MONO_THEME=visualstyles mono MyApp.exe export MONO_THEME=clearlooks mo...

mono-service on windows

I have inherited an application that uses mono that runs a windows service. All of the original developers are gone. The production version uses mono on linux. I am trying to get a development environment up and running. I decided to use windows as the base platform running mono up top of it. Ok maybe not the best idea given my current ...

Is MonoTouch worth the cost or should I just learn Objective-C?

After sitting through a session today on Mono at a local .Net event, the use of MonoTouch was 'touched' upon as an alternative for iPhone development. Being very comfortable in C# and .Net, it seems like an appealing option, despite some of the quirkiness of the Mono stack. However, since MonoTouch costs $400, I'm somewhat torn on if t...

DllNotFoundException while trying to "fix" LuaInterface, but why?

Since my game, which I'd really like to be Mono-usable, does not seem to run under Linux because LuaInterface is being a jerk (see the the relevant SO thread for more on that), I've decided to do what's suggested there. I wrote my own Lua511.LuaDLL class to reflect the one used by LuaInterface, replacing every single public function with...

Building and running VS2005 project on linux with MonoDevelop?

Hi - I have a VS2005 project that I'm trying to run on linux. First - is it even possible? The project is .NET 2.0, and I have mono JIT 2.0.1 on my linux machine. The project builds successfully in monodevelop, but when I run it I get the exception stack: Unhandled Exception: System.NotImplementedException: The requested feature is not ...

How does screen savers work on Mac OS X and Linux?

In Windows a screen saver is just an executable with a .scr extension dumped in the system32, and it is controlled with three switches (/p, /c and /s, I think). How does screen savers work on Mac OS X and Linux? Do they work similarly in Mac OS X and Linux (Gnome, KDE, Ubuntu, or wherever the difference is) or is it completely different...

MEF vs Mono.AddIn

Hi, I'm developing a .NET 3.5 C# desktop application. It should be extensible via plug-ins. Are there any articles etc. discussing the differences between MEF and Mono.AddIn to help me make an informed decision? Or even better have you got experience with both of these frameworks and can comment on them? Thanks, Patrick ...

Is Mono really cross-platform?

Official Mono project website says that Mono works successfully on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Is that true? I want to build applications which work at least on Windows and Linux. Is it possible with Mono? P.S. I know that similar topics already exist (e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/56013/cross-platform-net), but they may be...

Mono - OSX - ODBC

I've set up system DSNs, which I can use from other ODBC apps (e.g. iQueryODBC), but in mono, I get "Data source name not found and n" (sic). I am using "DSN=myodbc" for the connection string, via the connection string builder. OSX 10.4 Latest Mono packages - 2.4.2.3. Anyone ever got ODBC working on Mono/ OSX? (Oh - for what it is ...

How to use a C++ module from a Mono app

I'm trying to run my C#/C++ app on Linux after developing it on Windows. A small part of it, FooLib, is written in C++ which is pinvoked from C# for performance. FooLib uses no system calls, only standard C++ functionality. It exports a single function, declared as: extern "C" __declspec(dllexport) void Foo(float*, int, float*); It's...

How does .NET/Mono performance compare to JVM?

I've been wondering this for a while. Please give quantitative data to support your answer. Related: Is there a significant difference between Windows, Mac, and linux JVM performance? ...

Linux Mono Equivalent of .NET Windows Service

I have a .NET Windows service that I would like to port to Mono on Linux. What would be the proper way to install the service on Linux so that it works like a Windows service (i.e. autostart, runs when no users are logged in, etc)? ...

Mono Migration Analyzer: What are all of the command line switches?

So I'm looking here and I see the command line switches. http://mono-project.com/Command_Line_MoMA This is what I see as the total amount of switches from the site: MoMA.exe --nogui --out C:\app\momareport\report.html C:\app\myapp.exe One thing I see is the submit.xml going to a place I don't want during my automated build. Since...

Mono .EXE assembly set explorer icon

When compiling with gmcs on Linux, how can I set the explorer icon the final EXE will use? I have a .ico file to attach to the output exe. The answer must be build-automatable and execute on Linux (w/o wine -- build machine architecture is not x86). GCC and binutils targeting Windows x86 are available. If you give the answer referring...

How many newlines should a Mono application use between "using" statements, and the namespace declaration?

I can't find anything about this in the Mono Project Coding Guidelines. Which is better: using Something; using SomethingElse; namespace SomeNameSpace { ... or using Something; using SomethingElse; namespace SomeNameSpace { ... I know it's not terrible important, but it can't hurt to do it right. The Mono guidelines ar...