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Do you (ComponentOne) plan to support Mono in future? If yes, which components will be compatible to Mono? Regards Dirk

Hi Dirk,

Compatibility testing is something that is under consideration, but if we did decide to do something, it would be a long-term project.

Thanks!

Hi John, thank you for your answer. Could you tell more about considerations? I'm using ComponentOne components for many many years now. I think VSOCX 3.0 was one of my first commercial tools/components I have used in my VB4 applications. Now it's time to start migrating my VB6 applications to NET. And if I mean NET I also mean Mono. But if I also want to be compatible to Mono I have to think about the components I should use. Even if there are still no products of ComponentOne, it would be helpful to knwo that you think seriously about supporting that. I'm so familiar with ComponentOne products that I would wait. But I need in this case more informations about your plans. There seems to be other competitors of NET components who still offer components for example for compression which are also compatible to Mono. It's not easy to go the right way. Regards Dirk

Hi Dirk,

There is a lot that goes into Mono. It does not fully support the .NET 2.0 framework (as of now) and it seems almost certain that there will almost always be pieces of the 2.0 framework that are unavailable in Mono. This means that any tools (ours, or others) relying on pieces of the framework that are not there, will not work properly or will not work at all.

Mono does provide a tool to check if everything you are doing in your .NET app exists in Mono: http://www.mono-project.com/Moma

They also provide a roadmap for where they plan to go in the future: http://www.mono-project.com/Roadmap

The best that I can say for C1 and Mono is that we will consider doing compatibility testing... which would mean some basic tests to see if everything is there for our tools to work. Obviously we won't be able to test all of the ways our customers use our tools, but we can at least get some idea of how successful it might be if they tried to use them. Whether we will be able to act on the results of our testing, or whether we will even do the testing for sure, I can't say right now.