Doing .NET the "hard" way
One of my favorite tools for .NET development is the dependency injection framework StructureMap from Jeremy D. Miller. It's free and it's Open Source, but it's only available in the Windows world....
View ArticleThe Microsoft .NET C# compiler has it's issues as well
While working on porting StructureMap to Mono I stumbled across some bugs in the Mono C# compiler. I did expected this, fixed or worked around the bugs and reported them. What I didn't expected, was to...
View ArticleStructureMap on Mono - only two failing tests left
After struggling with some tiny incompatibilities in StructureMap and bugs in Mono, StructureMap now passes nearly all of it's tests. The final two failing tests are caused by a compiler bug, which I...
View ArticleSearching for the holy grail of build systems
For my new OpenSource project "altdotnet.org", which is about making OSS from the Microsoft .NET world available to Linux/Mono, I have to decide now, which build system to use. There's a bunch of build...
View ArticleEvaluating build tools for altdotmono.org - part two
Three days ago I thought about which build tool to use for the altdotmono.org projects. I came up with the conclusion, that CMake, SCons and Autotools should be on my short list.First a small...
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