Only sortof breakthrough

I'm involved in a project using visual basic.NET. We've been working very hard to get the app running on Mono of late, with only limited success. Many things that should work trip an exception. Those can be worked around with try/catch structures, but there are other cases where mono just crashes, or trips an exception in a part of the app which is generated by the compiler. It's really quite frustrating to have what is supposedly a fairly mature runtime environment be full of so many internal bugs. We know of quite a few people who want to use our product, but can't because of Mono's instability.

This is also not the first time Mono has claimed VB.NET support. It was partially supported in 1.1.16, and I believe in 1.1.13 as well. We'll see how long the new implementation lasts.