How to run .net application on Linux environment?

Question

Is it possible to run a .net application on Linux environment? If yes then how? Will all the components of .net framework work properly on Linux ?

Answer 1

For running simple .net Applications mono is the tool of your choice! I used it for many applications and it worked without major glitches. I would not reccommend starting to develop on Mono though. Some people in my Class tried to do C# on Linux with mono, and failed terribly.

When you do simple stuff it works good, but when you go to the more advanced stuff like using NHibernate or something like that, it may fail you. And you will miss out the best thing about .net - the Development Environment and that everything works together because everything is provided by Microsoft.