Creating desktop applications across multiple platforms has always been an elusive thing. In .NET, there are a few options but none without drawbacks, most notibly is that the application will not look or behave like a native application for that platform, or that there are extra dependencies you must install/package with your app. Using the very Read more about Introducing Eto.Forms – A cross platform UI for .NET[…]
Introduction to using Json to define your user interface in Eto.Forms
Many developers do enjoy the use of a visual designer when building apps. However, there are many like myself that prefer to build GUI applications through code alone. I use this little trick for the Eto.Forms cross platform UI framework. The problem with doing this is Cocoa (and thus MonoMac) typically requires at least one Read more about Nibless MonoMac[…]
When creating a MonoMac application, there’s sometimes a need to specify environment variables in the context of your application. A few key environment variables specific to a MonoMac application: MONO_IOMAP – case insensitivity behaviour for file i/o. (more info) MONO_OPTIONS – options to pass to the mono runtime (e.g. –gc=sgen) The way to do this Read more about Setting environment variables with a MonoMac application[…]