Chapter 10. Cross-platform issues
Since DotNetProcessing can run both in Windows and Linux there are a few things you have to be specially carefull when writting code:
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Only write managed .NET code. That means, only use those classes included in the .NET class library. If you call to special Windows API functions you are writting unmanaged code which won't work under Linux.
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Use the System.IO.Path.DirectorySeparatorChar special variable when accessing the file system using paths.
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Don't make things like launching Internet Explorer.
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Try the program under both platforms periodically. It will help detecting possible problems.
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At the time of writing this documentation the DotNetProcessing Environment, although very unstable, works under some Linux distributions. That's why we've make a very simple graphical interface without icons and other rich elements. More elements can be added as Mono Winforms evolve. |