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With the recent release of Mono Develop 1.0, moving a bunch of my personal C# projects from my laptop with Windows XP to my living-room Apple iMac (Mac OS X) suddenly seemed like a very good idea. Mono is as you all know an open implementation of the Microsoft .Net framework.

With a new job soon coming up, its time to brush of some of the C# sample code I´we written, and have easy access to a sandbox where I can explore more aspects of C# and .Net. Its been all about Ruby for more than six months now. The previous .Net project I participated in had its peak around a year ago. And in June this year, I have a new job, with a different company. I am really looking forward to digging into what appears to be a very interesting application domain, a large-scale .Net API and applications in the Oil & Gas industry. Anyhow, this post is about MonoDevelop, and not my new job…

The Mono installer took care of the whole installation, no hick-ups with X, Gtk+ or anything else (Mono is a very Gnome centric project?!?) Mono installs nicely under /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework and the MonoDevelop and MoMA (migration assistant) applications are OS X Application icons, dropped in the applications folder. Then simply create a default C# console application to test the installation, and we are done!

Next step will be to run the MoMA application, the Mono Migration Assistant, on my projects. To be continued…