How does Mono work

Question

I have used C# in Visual Studio with .NET, and I have played around a little with Mono on openSUSE Linux, but I don\'t really understand how it works.

If I write an

Answer 1

But as it is mentioned that Mono is open source and you can't just rely that it will be the full .NET implementation, it has some controls that are not working, you must be also careful with P/Invokes that your application will use, for e.g your application will communicate with MCI (Multimedia Controller Interface) under win32. But I was using mono writing GTK# Applications also, but I've also used my Windows applications that worked without any recompilation as mentioned our fellow programmers above, that is, mono is an open source alternative of Microsoft's .NET, and by default if you are building either WinForms or Gtk# applications mono will compile and will create an .exe assembly for each file, and of course if you want it will create an Dynamic Link Library (DLL), almost as it is done in .NET. Just for suggestion try writing some Gtk# (with MonoDevelop IDE which has its built-in gui designer called stetic). And of course mono can be a great replacement for Web Services that you can create them on .NET and you can host them on Apache (because Linux hosting nowadays are more cheap than Windows ones) web services and other asp.net apps will work under apache with a mod_mono module that must be included in apache.

A little bit out of topic but I just wanted to tell you a sneak-peek from my experience.