[cw-discuss] Office automation using mono

[Tim Pearce]

Thats something I was pondering. I don't know a lot about .net or mono. 
There seem to be a lot of systems out there now which are a mixture of 
.net and Windows programs.

Mono allows .net programs to run on nix systems, in the same way that 
Wine/Crossover allows Windows executables to.

So the question is - If you install Mono and Crossover, will a mixed 
.net and Windows program run seamlessly ?

If not, are there any plans for the Mono and Wine projects to liaise ?

Tim Pearce

IMO .net is a con job by MS designed to kill off Java by providing a 
cross platform environment which isn't (in MS speak, cross platform 
seems to mean across different version of Windows)

Timothy wrote:
> Crossover lets me install office, but not dotnet, in my win2000 bottle. 
> But, I can install Mono for Windows in the bottle. Is office automation 
> (specifically of Excel) doable using mono? I anticipate I would use the 
> interop DLL provided by MS and do most of the development on Windows in 
> Visual Studio, then transfer code and interop DLLs to the Crossover 
> bottle, recompile and run.
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