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Hmm - yes, having fun with that too. And installed XGL and Beryl, as well as kiba-dock. Very slick.

No luck getting the ASPNet addin to work in MonoDevelop though.

I've tried a dozen times to install XGL but it just doesn't work with my NVidia board. The screenshots and videos are awesome!

Unfortunately mono doesn't support VB, so it is undesireable for use in ASP.net which should always use the VB language for web development.  

C# is intended for desktop developers who are unable to convert from C++

The VB 8 compiler is running on Mono now. I don't know how complete it is, machines running Linux are hard to come by in my neck of the woods.

http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/01/VB-Mono

Dee:

Huh?  First, Mono does have a VB.NET compiler.  The VB.NET runtime wasn't complete last time I looked, but it's not that bad off.

More importantly, though, where the heck did you get the idea that C# was meant only for the desktop and for developers "unable to convert from C++", what ever that means?  VB is no more suited for web development than C# is, and I know many a web developer who prefer it.  From a technical stand point, neither has anything over the other for this problem domain.

it doesn't quite run VB....

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Jan-09.html

"Although binaries compiled with Microsoft's VB.NET compiler would run unmodified on Linux, it was not possible to use VB code in ASP.NET applications (as those get compiled on the first page hit) or if developers wanted to debug and tune up a few things on their target Linux/OSX machine."

C# is well suited for web development.

Personally, I can't use VB.NET (VB in general). It just doesn't feel like a real programming language.

yes, c# can indeed be used (and is prefferable in my opinion) in mono for web development,  dee, it would be interesting to know where you got this "information" about c# only being used by desktop developers, as c++ is totally different to c#, c++.net is the .net equivalent

ok my question is , would anyone know a workaround to debug asp.net apps in mono, i know in windows you can use the dgbclr and attach it to the asp.net process, is there any hacky way that one can tell mono to attach to another thread?

How did you managed to run it? I installed it but monodevelop just doesnt run :( cannnot load gtk# and others.. :(

Dee, Aside from VB having an overly verbose and bloated syntax (IMO) it is no more or less suited than any .NET language for desktop or web dev.

was an C++ Guru ... am now in C#/.Net .. but will soon have to go back to Ubuntu/C++..

i'm dreading C++ syntax... what do i do?

Python

Ruby

Mono/C#

Mono/Manage C++ (does it exist)

Make/vi/C++

Mac-Pro-10? with dual OSs + Ubuntu??? hmmm maybe yes!

What is this VB is better than C# crap? Let me tell you my story. I was using the VB6 IDE and wanted to learn about .NET for creating database applications. I went to Borders and they didn't have a VB.NET book, so I bought the C# book instead. I have MySQL and Apache running on a Ubuntu server. I am writing database applications with C# on a Win XP client through a Samba LAN. I actually prefer C#. Now I am interested in ASP.NET on a Linux box.

Sorry guys, VB is in no way superior to C#/C++.net.

realizing my poor programming skills, I am off to commit suicide.