.NET in character client?

Posted by Admin on 13-Apr-2011 13:51

Quoting this post fro Shelley Chase:

http://communities.progress.com/pcom/message/123008#123008

"Starting with 10.2B03 you can use .NET in any client - not just a GUI client. AppServer support for .NET is on our roadmap but it is not committed to a release at this time."

I just tried it in 10.2B04:

proenv>_progres -assemblies .
-assemblies is not supported by this executable. (1610)

and

DEFINE VARIABLE o AS System.Object NO-UNDO .
Invalid datatype specified: System.Object. Specify a datatype such as
'character' or the name of a class. (5638)
**  Could not understand line 1. (196)

Am I misreading the quoted paragraph?

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Posted by Håvard Danielsen on 13-Apr-2011 14:45

You are not misreading it, but you should also read the next post from Evan.

http://communities.progress.com/pcom/message/123244#123244

Posted by Admin on 13-Apr-2011 14:51

You are not misreading it, but you should also read the next post from Evan.

So the information provided was not right? Feels like X-mas was cancelled.

The next paragraph from Evan referred imho to the use of generic methods in non-generic types.

Posted by Håvard Danielsen on 13-Apr-2011 14:57

My understanding and posting on this subject is purely based on what I see on PSDN; the message I quoted seems to be a response to the one you quoted.

Posted by Admin on 13-Apr-2011 15:01

My understanding and posting on this subject is purely based on what I see on PSDN; the message I quoted seems to be a response to the one you quoted.

It may be my poor english, but what was added in 10.2B03?

- Generic types was 10.2B00

- Generic methods in non-generic types is not available at all yet

- .NET in windows character client is not in 10.2B04

Mike = confused.

Posted by jmls on 13-Apr-2011 15:04

yah! boo! shucks!

Xmas is cancelled.

Posted by jmls on 13-Apr-2011 15:21

The followup was a correction of Shelly's statement. It was a mistake

to mention 10.2B03 for char .net , as it is slated for 11.0

Posted by Admin on 13-Apr-2011 15:37

:-(

Easter cancelled as well.

Posted by Shelley Chase on 14-Apr-2011 12:25

I am sorry to have confused the issue.

In 10.2B03 the legal restriction of using .NET only with a GUI for .NET client was removed. In other words a classic GUI client (not a GUI for .NET) could a .NET component. This can only be used in prowin32.exe.

In 11.0 we will have .NEt support inthe character client as well as the AppServer. 

-Shelley

(A.K.A. "Scrooge")

Posted by jmls on 14-Apr-2011 12:40

And when you say "character" client, you mean all of the character

clients, right ?

On a serious note, how hard would it be to support mono on the linux

character client ?

Julian

Posted by Admin on 14-Apr-2011 15:15

In 10.2B03 the legal restriction of using .NET only with a GUI for .NET client was removed. In other words a classic GUI client (not a GUI for .NET) could a .NET component. This can only be used in prowin32.exe.

Ok. I think in that case the term application instead of client would be a better wording - until today I thought I'm absolutely in line with you when explaining that there is just a single GUI client and that's cool for migration... 

In 11.0 we will have .NEt support inthe character client as well as the AppServer.
-Shelley
(A.K.A. "Scrooge")

In this case, I'm fine to wait for another 8 month. Will be happy X-Mas then

Posted by jankeir on 15-Apr-2011 02:48

That's exactly what I was thinking when I read Shelley's statement! But please do support mono on aix as well ;-)

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