WinForms Application in MonoDevelop

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Adam Haile picture Adam Haile · Sep 9, 2009 · Viewed 28.5k times · Source

I just installed the new MonoDevelop Windows beta, but when trying to create a C# windows application the only option was GTK#. Since Mono supports WinForms, why is this not an option in MonoDevelop. I would like to not have the GTK# dependency in my applications.

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Ricardo Amores picture Ricardo Amores · Sep 10, 2009

Althought Winforms is supported in mono since version 2.0, the WinForms designer is not usable yet in MonoDevelop, which could be the reason for the lack of a WinForms project in MonoDevelop

http://www.mono-project.com/WinForms_Designer

AFAIK, you should think of mono's support for winforms as a way to port existing winforms aplication to linux. If you want to make a cross-platform app from the ground up, you should use GTK#

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