Microsoft lifts Visual Studio usage restrictions

Microsoft partners are now free to extend Visual Studio to target non-Microsoft platforms according to Microsoft's developer division corporate vice president S. Somasegar. "We never had any licence restriction on the product itself," he told El Reg. "Individual developers have done whatever they wanted to do. We had a …

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Posted Monday 5th November 2007 22:08 GMT

Robert

Mono? #

Why the heck would you need a separate "back end" to Visual Studio to target Mono? Isn't the main goal of Mono to allow you to run .NET applications unmodified on a non-Windows platform?

Posted Tuesday 6th November 2007 00:58 GMT

Anonymous Coward

what what? #

I want computers to start writing their own programs this is a step backwards.

Posted Tuesday 6th November 2007 12:49 GMT

Tim Anderson

Mono #

> Isn't the main goal of Mono to allow you to run .NET applications unmodified on a non-Windows platform?

That is a goal; but how about a designer for Gtk#, for example?

Tim

Posted Tuesday 6th November 2007 15:23 GMT

ssu

VS supported for non MS platforms for years. #

Embedded developers have been using Visual Studio for non MS OS embedded platforms for many years, e.g. Phar Lap ETS. Phar Lap ETS has a tool chain that integrates into Visual Studio. As MS says its the SDK rules that have now changed.

Posted Tuesday 6th November 2007 19:01 GMT

Tim Anderson

New rules #

> e.g. Phar Lap ETS

Another factor is that Microsoft sometimes allowed this kind of integration on a case-by-case basis, if you asked nicely.

Tim

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