MAC OSX ,Run .NET 4.5 Windows Application

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Can I run a .NET software in MACOSX

Posted 7-Jan-13 10:30am

Yaseer Arafat

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Yes. You just install bootcamp, then install windows, then install .NET, then install your program./

Otherwise, it's a windows program so, no.

Posted 7-Jan-13 10:38am

Christian Graus

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 7-Jan-13 17:34pm

I would not call it Mac OS X. :-)
Mono is the solution, I answered.
—SA

SamnangYin 25-Mar-15 3:25am

I tried mono.
But it error on some event. :(

Christian Graus 7-Jan-13 17:35pm

Well, perhaps, if you're lucky.

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-07T11:33:00

Solution 2

You can run .NET application without recompilation on Mac OS X under Mono:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_%28software%29[^],
http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page[^].

However, those application have to be compatible. Mono supports all of the BCL and some of other non-standard FCL, notably System.Windows.Forms, ADO.NET, and more.
Please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_Class_Library[^],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framework_Class_Library[^].

I must also note that, in contrast to Linux, Mac OS X is extremely hostile to the "foreign" GUI applications. They work, but look ugly. If you confine yourself to console applications, it's not a problem, but Forms look like something outlaw, even though they work. One major reason for that is the totally different concept of the main menu. You can also develop "native" Mac OS X UI using Mono and the library MonobjC which wrapes, Objective-C, Cocoa, etc, but I don't think you are interested in that. Anyway, this is a possibility.

—SA

Posted 7-Jan-13 11:33am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Christian Graus 7-Jan-13 17:35pm

Yeah, I know about Mono. I just thought that it's not really worth the effort to try to make it work - how do you know that it's all going to work ? How do you know at what point it will fail ?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 7-Jan-13 17:41pm

It really depends. How do I know? Because many of my applications work on all my Linux systems, and because I've done a contract for porting .NET to the multi-platform solution. It's so good that I can develop applications which can work on a number of platforms. And I develop it on Windows totally, just test, first on Mono for Windows, later on other platforms. I really works.

But one needs to keep to the standard things, mostly BCL and keep the use of other parts FCL to a reasonably basic subset (which only improves the quality of the software; highly decorated "cool" applications are rarely robust). Unnatural hacking-style show-off applications will fail to work.

—SA

Christian Graus 7-Jan-13 17:45pm

Fair enough. It seems like a dangerous path to me, but I'm sure with enough testing, it can be proven to work.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 7-Jan-13 18:22pm

Well, to me, it is quite proven, but yes, with a number of limitations; no wonder.
—SA

Yaseer Arafat 7-Jan-13 18:15pm

tanks

Yaseer Arafat 7-Jan-13 18:18pm

I have downoaded gtk.sharp & mono-2.10.9.

I have developed a software with vs 2012.How can I convert it for MacOS

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 7-Jan-13 18:25pm

I told you: just write software, in a compatible manner, on Windows. Use compatible target .NET version (3.5 worked very well, 4 might work). If you do it accurately, it will work on Mac OS X without recompilation. Just run it as is with the following command line: mono my_application.exe.

Good luck,
—SA

Yaseer Arafat 8-Jan-13 17:36pm

Thanks.It works For me.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 8-Jan-13 20:03pm

Hope so.

You are welcome.
Good luck, call again.

—SA

SamnangYin 25-Mar-15 3:29am

:( It work for me.
But error on some event.
It breakdown when I try to fill DataGridView from database.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 25-Mar-15 9:16am

Hope you can fix it... :-)
Good luck,
—SA