Using visual studio for developing mono applications

c# visual-studio visual-studio-2008 mono
Josh picture Josh · Apr 29, 2009 · Viewed 24k times · Source

How do I use Visual Studio to develop applications on Mono? Is this possible?

Answer

Jon Skeet picture Jon Skeet · Apr 29, 2009

You just build the applications in Visual Studio, and run them under Mono instead of under .NET. The binaries should be compatible... but you'll need to make sure you don't use any libraries which aren't available in Mono - see the Mono Application Compatibility Guidelines.

(According to that page, you need to turn off incremental builds in Visual Studio though - a point I wasn't aware of before :)

Related questions

The name 'ConfigurationManager' does not exist in the current context

I am trying to access connectionStrings from the config file. The code is ASP.NET + C#. I have added System.Configuration to reference and also mentioned with using. But still it wouldn't accept the assembly. I am using VSTS 2008. Any …

Read More
How to debug a referenced dll (having pdb)

I have two solutions in my workspace, say A and B. Solution A is an older project which I finished coding some time ago. In solution B, I need to use some classes from Solution A. To do so, I …

Read More
How to have comments in IntelliSense for function in Visual Studio?

In Visual Studio and C#, when using a built in function such as ToString(), IntelliSense shows a yellow box explaining what it does. How can I have that for functions and properties I write?

Read More