Comments: The Add-in Lives

As always, great work!

The combined installer and the plug are really essentials for opening up mono for any MS developer, and as a result, like I've posted before, I think your work is very important. That said, I am not convinced that producing materials like what you are talking about is the most important *next* step.

As proper installation and materials now are becoming available (as a result of your work) I think that any MS developer could easily start targeting mono. So, I think that the next thing is not so much easing the "migration" path further, but perhaps providing incentive (a "why" and "what") and demos/starting points, along the lines of and in complement to projects at gotmono.

On a sidenote: I am not that fascinated by gtk, am more interested in deploying .NET server apps on linux (debian, but that seems to be going pretty sloooow as usual with debian) via mono.

/mawi

Posted by mawi at September 13, 2004 01:02 PM

Hey Paco! It was a pleasure meeting you as well! Definitely keep in mind that if there's anything we can do at the Plano .NET Users Group with handing out fliers, doing talks, etc... just let me know!

Take care,
-Jason

Posted by Jason Alexander at September 13, 2004 02:09 PM

Marvellous work! I haven't gotten the time to look into this yet, but it looks great. The only nit I have is that the Glade icon seen in Visual Studio.NET kind of blends out and looks a bit ugly compared to the other VS.NET icons. ;-)

Posted by Asbj�rn Ulsberg at September 14, 2004 12:43 AM

Trying to install vsprj2make, the "README for vspr2make ver 0.95.1.0" (naming bug: vsprj2make vspr2make) lists "mono-1.0.1-gtksharp-1.0.89-win32-0.6c.exe" as a requirement. I could not find this version, the actual version seems to be 0.6b. So I assume there is another naming bug here.

What confuses me more, though, is to find all relevant pieces to start programming in Mono/Gtk# using Microsoft Visual Studio.

For a novice like me this is a frustating experience - I already spent a whole day and still have no IDE up and running for Mono/Gtk#. I am even not sure not to have missed some important information.

Therefore I would love to see a combined installer, setting up and configuring a complete programming environment for Microsoft Visual Studio users and/or SharpDevelop users.

Nevertheless, thank you for your important work so far!

Posted by Christoph Kre� at September 18, 2004 07:06 AM

Hey Paco.

I just have to say, this Mono/Gtk#/VS.Net-Addin CD sounds a lot like SNAP! :-D

Later, dude!

Posted by PJ Cabrera at September 20, 2004 12:22 PM