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by knocte 4089 days ago
You know that Mono is cross-platform and Microsoft code only runs in Windows right?
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gfodor 4089 days ago
Is this true?
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ianlevesque 4089 days ago
Not anymore. The .NET Core has been ported to OS X and Linux already. It still has a long way to go in stability though.
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knocte 4089 days ago
The OP is talking about the reference sources, not .NET Core (which is an unfinished effort, btw).
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Locke1689 4089 days ago
NetFx core contains many of the same things that NetFx desktop does, and everything in Netfx Core is required to be cross-platform, so I would say that many, if not most, pieces of the framework should be portable directly to mono.
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knocte 4089 days ago
Yes, especially for the IO code, which is C# code p/invoking into Windows kernel APIs.

Mono project has been mainly pulling Microsoft's code that is managed, which is the one that should run in any OS unmodified.

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beachwood23 4089 days ago
Yes. Its literally the point of the Mono project.
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