can .Net application works on Macintosh?
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I want to know whether any application created in .net works on Macintosh OS?? is .Net platform independent??
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Xolile DyosiPosted Aug 14, 2007, 5:00 AM
Xolile DyosiPosted Aug 14, 2007, 4:50 AM
Xolile DyosiPosted Aug 14, 2007, 4:50 AM
try abcPosted Jul 10, 2007, 12:42 AM
AlanPosted Jul 6, 2007, 6:58 AM
Each implementation of .NET needs a runtime whose 'just in time' compiler can produce a native executable for the operating system and/or CPU which it's targetting.
To be realistic about this, if it's an application of any complexity, then it'll be a miracle if it will compile and run without any modifications at all on Mac OS !!
The parts of the .NET framework supported by Portable.NET will only be a subset of the full Microsoft .NET framework and some parts which are shared may not behave exactly the same. So I'd expect to have to do a fair bit of work to port and test your application.
try abcPosted Jul 6, 2007, 1:34 AM
try abcPosted Jul 6, 2007, 12:47 AM
AlanPosted Jul 5, 2007, 9:59 AM
Here are links to all three if you want to know more:
http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3A1C93FA-7462-47D0-8E56-8DD34C6292F0&displaylang=en
http://dotgnu.info/
Incidentally, only v1.0 of the Microsoft SSCLI can target Mac OS X 10.2. The latest version 2.0 only targets Windows XP (+ SP2).
AlanPosted Jul 5, 2007, 9:06 AM
However, there are two free implementations of desktop .NET, namely Mono and the Microsoft SSCLI (formerly Rotor), which can target Mac OS X.