Ask HN: Now that VisualStudio is free and .NET is cross platform

5 points by majidarif 11y ago ↗ HN

Will they make Visual Studio cross platform too so you can use this awesome IDE in writing and compiling code for other platforms like linux and mac? I still haven't seen any way to compile my code from windows to linux.

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ghuntley 11y ago ↗

Visual Studio heavily makes use of WPF thus seriously doubt it:

http://www.mono-project.com/docs/gui/wpf/

As for using Visual Studio on Windows and cross-compilation to Linux:

http://visualgdb.com/

barrystaes 11y ago ↗

If you have not heard of the Mono project or http://monodevelop.com/ you should check it out. And MS recently said they're going to facilitate building Linux/OSX applications in Visual Studio.

jpetersonmn 11y ago ↗

I haven't seen anything indicating that you'll be able to run visual studio on other platforms. Just publish to run on those platforms. I'd love to be able to use VS to create windows apps from my MacBook.