Initial results are saying that just about anything native C# or VB.Net will compile and run in a console app that can then be wrapped and integrated by CL. Think of .Net console apps as CL programs.
No GDI plus or DB yet besides my XMLSERVICE wrapper, but there are all kinds of utilities we will be able to write leveraging existing .Net code APIs.
And speed results so far are FAST.
If you have any favorite .Net APIs you want tested send me a note and I'll take a look at them.
SharpZip in particular will be useful for those of you trying to ZIP files.
Regards,
Richard Schoen
Director of Document Management
e. richard.schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
p. 952.486.6802
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date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 16:22:31 +0000
from: Matt Olson <Matt.Olson@xxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: .Net C# and VB Running Natively with Mono for i
Cool! With this and Blazor (running .NET framework within a web browser via WebAssembly) coming around the corner with .NET Core 3.0 it is an exciting time to be a .NET developer!
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From: Richard Schoen via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2018 3:52 PM
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Subject: .Net C# and VB Running Natively with Mono for i
Thanks to the nice work done by the guys who ported the Mono framework to IBM i, you can now start using Visual Studio and Visual Studio Community to create and compile apps that run natively on IBM i in PASE, Windows, Mac and Linux.
Check out this recent article:
https://www.itjungle.com/2018/10/31/mono-port-to-ibm-i-now-available/
You can use your compiled CS and VB objects (EXE/DLL) without change by running via the mono command. Supports .Net 2.0 - 4.7.1 and also .Net Standard which is what my open source XMLSERVICE data service wrapper is written in.
Download and install MonoOni from here:
https://github.com/MonoOni/binarydist
I have tested my XMLSERVICE wrapper which ran with a sample console app by creating and compiling in Visual Studio and simply copying the compiled app into the IFS and running. It just worked.
They still don't have all the database stuff working, bit with XMLSERVICE you can start building .Net apps and services that serve IBM i data, commands, program calls and data queues right now without waiting.
I will also be releasing an open source MONO CL command wrapper soon that can call and consume .Net programs using RPG, CL, COBOL or anything that can compose and call a CL command.
There are so any things available in .Net for writing utilities that make this big news for those of you interested in bringing VB and C# application code directly to IBM i.
Enjoy and sent me a note directly if you want early access to the MONO CL command wrapper before it gets posted on Github.
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