.NET smart clients on... Linux?

According to this interview, the Mono project is getting out version 1.2 in April, the big news for me is that Miguel de Icaza states that it will support Windows Forms in Linux. Now, you know I'm a smart clients fan, so you can imagine how cool this sounds to me. On the other hand, it's only a beta, and it's not WinForms 2.0, and the Mono Project has been dragging for years, but I want so hard to believe...
Published Thursday, March 30, 2006 12:22 AM by Edgar Sánchez
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# re: .NET smart clients on... Linux?

Thursday, March 30, 2006 1:31 AM by Jon Galloway
Mono's had pretty good support for winforms for a while - the 1.1.8 release in August 2005 supported the majority of winform controls:
http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/dotgrid/archive/2005/08/20/winforms_on_monoppix.aspx

Give it a shot using one of the Mono live cd-rom's - you can build a simple winform app in VS2003, copy the EXE over to Linux with Mono installed, and run it.

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