Think twice before using any third-party assemblies
posted by fuzzyman(25) 4 years, 11 months ago 0
Hmm.. I agree. We're creating a large(ish) desktop application using two major third party controls. Creating these from scratch ourselves simply would not have been feasible. Once we are well estabilshed we may rewrite - but it isn't a high priority.
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Why Microsoft Will Never Make .NET Truly Portable
Plus the premise is rubbish - a lot of Winforms is already portable to Mono. It is more of a problem than you might imagine though. A massively higher proportion of web designers use Macs than the general web populace - so if the *tools* aren't portable then designers won't use them (so the platform will fail)...