Compiling without Visual Studio

    There are ways beyond visual Studio 2005 to compile and run the examples in this book. One project is called Mono. Mono is an open source implementation of .NET. As of the writing of this book Mono does not fully support .NET 2.0. Many of the examples require .NET 2.0. Because of this Mono is not currently an option for this book. If later releases of Mono support .NET 2.0, the examples may work.

    Of course no IDE is required to execute the examples from the command prompt. Visual Studio is only needed when you would like to compile the examples.

    Another possibility is to use a free third party IDE. Once such IDE is SharpDevelop. SharpDevelop can be downloaded from the following URL:

http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/