Hanselminutes Podcast 168 - Successful Cross Platform .NET Development - Mono and Banshee with Aaron Bockover
My one-hundred-and-sixty-eighth podcast is up. In this one, I chat with Aaron Bockover of Novell about the Banshee Project - a cross-platform Media Player. It's a Mono Application that runs on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. What are the hard-won secrets of cross platform .NET dev? Aaron and his team know the answers.
I really enjoyed this show. Aaron's team has unquestionably proven that you CAN make a great .NET app that looks great everywhere. Here's Banshee on Windows, OSX, and Linux. Remember, this is written in C#, people. Click the images to see them larger.
Links from the Show
- Aaron on Twitter
- Banshee hits the streets
- Using Boo for scripting Banshee
- Banshee Project web site
- Cross Platform through the lens of Banshee
- Press article about Banshee/Tomboy Mono apps being ported to OS X and Windows
- Major recent release highlights
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Matthew Kimber
avid follower - keep up the good work....
was having a discussion with our network admin guy here who has programmed a lot of his network monitoring tools in mono/vb and is a little concerned about so of the issues in this article...
http://www.builderau.com.au/news/soa/Stallman-warns-of-Mono-risk-/0,339028227,339297176,00.htm?feed=rss
heres a snippet from our conversation that kinda express my friends concerns...
"...yeah my worry is the situation when you see in the future quality new C# code running perfectly in your vista development machine, and then try to run in mono and it throws about 100 errors from features that are not available in it, or will never be, and halts, so my worry is in the future it gets even more distant as MS tries to tight it closer to windows and only a subset of that code runs in mono and only original windows can run it in the end..."
do you have any views or opinions?
thanks
When is Microsoft coming openly to support Mono offcially? We have a project that we developed on .NET and there is a chance that we have to thow .NET aside and re-write it because Microsoft doesn't support Mono yet. We work in an environment, where sometimes your customers decide the platform that they want the product and so we need to be portable. If Microsoft can come up with some kind of support for Mono, then I can convince the management to use Mono for porting the application to Linux and still keep writing application in .NET.
-Thanks,
-Brajesh
Is there any way to use platform native widgets in the UI?
Software house
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