[cw-discuss] Office automation using mono

[Timothy]

Thanks. I think you just saved me a lot of trial and error - mostly 
error. What do you think of my chances of getting some useful office 
automation using Python win32com on Crossover?

Jeremy White wrote:
> Just to chime in on this thread, officially - supporting .NET is on our
> radar, and using Mono is one of the proposed techniques.  However, we
> haven't really started moving on it yet.  So it's possible that you may
> get some joy, but my suspicion is that you won't get very far.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeremy
>
> 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.
>>
>>