Dag König

MONO verkar vara en seriös spelare för .NET

Igår hade jag möjligheten att träffa en kollega som håller på att konvertera äldre kod till .NET. Om det bara hade varit så enkelt hade det inte varit speciellt spännande. Men grädden på moset i det här fallet var att .NET-koden skall göras på Linux med hjälp av open source-projektet MONO.
Det var ett tag sedan jag kollade upp MONO, men igår såg jag att det verkligen fungerade. Det här öppnar nya möjligheter som man kan kolla vidare på.

Några erfarenheter min kollega har haft
* Det finns en utvecklingsmiljö också för Linux. Den heter MonoDevelop. Den verkar väldigt rudimentär och är helt enkelt inte bra för att utveckla proffesionellt med. Inte ens intellicense finns. Det bästa är att använda Visual Studio (eller något annat utvecklingsverktyg i Windows) för att skriva och kompilera koden och sedan installera den på Linuxmaskinen. (Alltså på samma sätt som man gör när man utvecklar för telefoner och handdatorer med hjälp av Compact Framework.)

* Att utveckla .NET-applikationer med ett användargränssnitt (inte webbapplikationer) verkar fortfarande lite lurigare. Det går, men man måste fixa och trixa lite. ASP.NET applikationer å andra sidan skall gå mycket bra. Det finns till och med några open source-projekt där de kör på Linux.

Personligen känner jag mig dock lite försiktig fortfarande. Jag vet inte om jag skulle våga satsa på att konvertera och installera det på Linux med hjälp av MONO. Produkten verkar fortfarande vara lite omogen. Men som Kurt Ohlsson brukar säga, "Vad vet jag, vad vet jag?"

Talare på MSDN Live

Jag kommer att vara med på en turné som Microsoft gör över Sverige i mars, kallad MSDN Live. Hoppas att vi ses då? Det är gratis. Mer information finns här.

Det är inte jag på bilden. Det är Johan Lindfors. Han bossar över hela grejen.

MDAC - Du gamla följeslagare

Vi som har skrivit program för Windows under en längre tid, har alla upplevt utvecklingen av de olika dataaccessteknikerna som Microsoft med jämna mellanrum har skapat. Vissa av oss rill och med utgår och delar upp vår programmeringshistoria med hjälp av dessa tekniker. "Kom du ihåg på den gamla goda tiden när vi bara hade RDO?" är inte helt ovanligt att en något äldre programmerare kan säga.

Detta gör att läsandet av en ny artikel på MSDN blir också en form av tillbakablickande. (Usch, vad jag låter gammal.) Den är också intressent av andra skäl.

Data Access Technologies Road Map

Testa att utveckla utan att behöva installera någonting lokalt

Förra veckan hittade jag följande site, http://msdn.demoservers.com. Där kan man kan prova på att utveckla utan att behöva installera någonting själv. Allting körs på en server som du via klient kör emot. Det finns ett stor utbud av kurser att prova på. Jag har tyckt det varit ett alldeles för stort steg att testköra BizTalk 2004, men på det här sättet är det busenkelt.

 

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So much to say, but so little time

I have tried to write my blog in only English the last couple of months. It has been fun but I sometimes have problems to express what I want to say. It takes more time trying to find the right words than to make the content. This is very frustrating for me.

Therefore, I will try to make this blog multi language from now. I will still write articles in English, especially if I want to discuss something in response to things that I have read on a English blog.

For all my English friends out there, why not try to learn a new language? Just kidding.

Each entry will be tagged with the language. In addition, I will try to make an rss feed just for you English reading people out there.

Notepad Invaders

To old classic Space Invaders in a complete new version. Its fun, even the sound is cool.

Check it out.

Bye, bye love, bye, bye SOAP Toolkit

The love between us wasn’t so strong, but it was the first component that I used to create web services. It was a forerunner for SOA. I still remember the first version.

The support for it end the last of March this year. So it’s time to say good bye and thanks…