ALT.NET Session #5: Mono â Not Just For Linux
Joe starts polling to see what people want to talk about. Most seem to be interest the libraries for Mono (being that they also work on Windows/.NET. So, Joe starts talking about libraries for/from Mono.
- Mono.Cecil. For all your reflecting and assembly modification needs.
- Mono.Addins. I've been looking at this off and on today, and I have to admit it looks pretty intriguing
- Mono.Rocks: Handy extension methods.
- Mono.Zeroconf: Zero configuration networking library
- DBus#: A C# implementation of D-Bus.
- MonoCurses: An API for console based applications
- GTK# vs Windows:
- My suggestion is to consider the target environment. If you targeting Windows, stick with WinForms. If you're targetting Linux/Mac, go with GTK#.
- Another issue that might influence your decision is that the documentation for GTK# is pretty sketchy, not very good.
- IOMap. Turning this flag on, will help you with some of the cross-platform development issues. This is a portable library that will help resolve things like directory seperators, case sensitivity in paths, and that sort of thing.
A short session, which isn't bad. Gives me a chance to float around to check out some other things.