Re: Off Topic, but need help

Carsten Troelsgaard wrote:

"Aidan Karley" <doIlookDAFTenoughTOpost@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> skrev i en meddelelse news:VA.0000090a.06c1ee1d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

In article <432c0e0f$0$2075$edfadb0f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Carsten
Troelsgaard wrote:

It's an .exe file, and it looks as if it is executable right there where I
dumped it!


I'm not sure what it's written in, but the presence of a string "This
program cannot be run in DOS mode." in the file strongly suggests that your
executable is designed for a windows environment.


Right. I've always been using Microsoft systems and assume that most others do. The Net.Framework will probably become available for Linux too, and probably is working on other systems already - it's not my strong side.
I've been told, that it even needs an ms-browser. Still, that leaves a lot of possible users.


Executing it from DOS, I
get told that it cannot find "mscoree.dll" in [a long path statement that
includes a "." that *I* haven't specified]. It looks as you're making invalid
assumptions about the system I use, and so there's a potential gotcha there
for your other users, unless you specify a requirement for that DLL to be
available.


On a code level, it's a windows.form containing all code - nothing is stashed away in a separate dll/lib.


Mozilla simply tells me that it's of type
"application/octet-stream", which Mozilla doesn't know how to handle, so it
asks the client.

What's it meant to be? Java?


No, but I guess that it could just as well have been. The process of making it is much the same as doing Java. It's written in VisualBasicNet. If you install a runtime and an SDK (software developement kid), accessible online, you get access to C++, C#, VB .. and somewhere there is support for Java too.

Carsten


Carsten, I have a strong suspicion that Hell will freeze over before the .NET framework gains wide acceptance in Linux-land. Far too many people in the Linux community see Microsoft and all its products as the worst possible evil. So, whether .NET is good or not (debate is open on subject) is not going to matter...

Use of VB (the .NET version or not) locks your product into a single line of available machines. If you want to gain users, you'd be better off dumping VB and reworking it in a more portable language. Java, Perl, Python, TCL would all be better choices.

Just my 2 cents, from someone who is required to consider platforms in development of new software... And our platforms include PCs, Suns, Macs, handhelds, Linux boxen, and Cthuhlu only knows what else....

Jim!
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