RE: Linux, Mono and Windows Services, MSMQ and WCF

I don't find it too surprising, those cats on the Mono project have been at this a while, and they aren't playing around. 

Sam Gentile spoke at one of our .NET meetings a few years back (maybe 4) and said he had been running early versions of Mono on his Apple laptop from the very beginning, IIRC he wanted to make sure the stuff that was being published as the ECMA standard actually worked. 

Chris 


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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 8:56 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [OT] Linux, Mono and Windows Services, MSMQ and WCF

I finally got a copy of the source code from the outsource vendor yesterday and was able to get a clean build. I ran MoMA on the build, expecting to see all kinds of warnings and errors. Instead I saw:

"MoMA was unable to find any potential issues in this application."

My first response: Woo Hoo!

My next response; no way this is possible. 

So now I plan to figure out how to actually port the .NEY source code over to the Ubuntu box and figure out how to run it under Mono. 

--- In [email protected], "Greg" <gregarobinson@...> wrote:
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> I previously stated no WCF. I was able to get my hands on the dlls and config files yesterday. Looks like they 3rd party vendor is using WCF <client> (application development is done by a vendor). 
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