Question

I’m in the process of porting over a Windows VB .Net 2.0 project over to Mac OS X and i am using Mono to make the process much easier, all of my lib files came across ok, except I cannot add the reference System.Collections.Generic namespace. I require this name space for Dictionary and Specialized.NameValueCollection.

Is this a limitation of Mac OS X or is there a way around it?

Thanks

Answer 1

In .NET, full namespaces don’t match up to assemblies in most cases. System.Collections.Generic is a namespace, but the classes within that namespace are defined in assemblies mscorlib.dll and System.dll (excluding other classes like SynchronizedCollection<T>, which exists in System.ServiceModel.dll).

Make sure you are referencing mscorlib and System and you should be fine.