Mono sounds Sharp

by Pascal Opitz

published 10 April 2006

If platform specifications change sometimes one has to make the descision if the app needs to be ported or if there is another way. My research about porting .Net applications reveals a surprisingly great range of Open Source tools.

This starts with the IDE I am using for coding my C# application, the really well done SharpDevelop that after a while I find very easy to use.

But for all the .Net newbies: Compiling a binary DLL in .Net doesn’t mean that it’s a windows dead end automatically. Especially for non-GUI applications (i.e. CLI or Web applications) it might work to just execute the DLL with mono, mod_mono or XSP.

At least it won’t be a big effort to port applications for mono most of the times, and since mono is so close to .Net there obviously is a mono port of SharpDevelop: MonoDevelop, which should run on most UNIX/Linux platforms (and MacOSX, even though I didn’t get my head around installing it properly), once all dependencies are installed.

This road is not a one way track, either:
For all those people who want to improve the performance of PHP scripts and don’t worry about using .Net or mono, the Phalanger Compiler might be the way to go.

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