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Asked: 2026-05-11T16:59:12+00:00

Recently, I came across Mono and MonoDevelop packages in Ubuntu linux. They claim to

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Recently, I came across Mono and MonoDevelop packages in Ubuntu linux. They claim to have a .NET runtime in accordance with CLI. Before installing the packages myself, I would like to know the following:

  1. How powerful is Mono?

  2. Can I develop GUI application for
    linux like developing WinForm
    applications for Windows.

  3. Is MonoDevelop IDE compatible with Visual Studio IDE. Can I import VS 2008 solutions to MonoDevelop and work?

  4. Does it support .NET 2.0 and above?

EDIT: Adding one more doubt

Is there any way to run the .NET exe (of a winform app) in Linux without building the cod e in linux? In fact I don’t have the code for some of the small utilities I developed earlier and would like to run them in linux.

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  1. Editorial Team

    1. (Strange, markdown starts the enumeration with one, even though I began with 2…)

    2. Yes, you can, but you’re limited with 3rd-party components, because the internal implementation is different, and last time I checked (not very long ago), the Mono WinForms implementation made my test app look rather strange (owner-drawn list view). It is not really recommended, though Mono claims that it’s now completely WinForms-2.0-compatible.

    3. MonoDevelop is/was a SharpDevelop branch, with the latter having solution support. I don’t know if MonoDevelop has. But the cool thing is, you can just develop with Visual Studio and run your compiled apps on Mono. And Mono is, by the way, also available for Windows.

    4. Yes, it does, as far as the CLR goes. As Marc Gravell already wrote, the Windows Foundation libraries are missing, as are a few other (System.Management, for example). But things should mostly work, including ASP.NET 2.0. Mono’s application portability guidelines are a good read on this.

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