.NET on S60 3rd Edition now a reality?

[slitchfield]

Red Five Labs has just announced that their Net60 product, which enables .NET applications from the Windows world to run unchanged under S60, is now available for beta testing. By the way, if you don't know what a .NET application is then you don't need the product!

Read on in the full article.

[hargs48]

I just have to mention it,as I am a South African,but Red Five Labs is a South African company!Mighty impressed by that,seeing how SA has practically no companies that develop S60 software. Best of luck to them and development of this application...

[SwitchBlade]

I had a bit of a read but it's not clear if this is a developer aid to compile .NET apps to work on Symbian or whether it's a WINE like interface for Symbian to allow .NET CF 1.0 applications to run on Symbian devices without the need for recompiling. Following on from that do they want Beta testers to be developers or consumers?

""SwitchBlade

the beta testers r the general public

u can register on their website....or i can email u the app if u want to test

coz it doent work in my 5700.......it opens but doent run the .net files
coz currently it only supports OS 9.1 not 9.2

so even n95 , n76 , e90 , e60 , 6110 and etc etc are not supported


it'll work good in n73, 3250, n91, n80, e61/62/61i , e70, e50.....n etc

[SwitchBlade]

I've only got an E90 so no point me trying then.

[cyke64]

So it's possible to try it on N93 or N93i (9.1)

Cyke64

[Solnyshok]

Can anyone list some examples of .Net applications that would be really useful to Nokia owners. mmm?

As a .NET developer and N95 owner I would love to do some programming for my phone in C#. But the .NET port from Red Five Labs has some serious disadvantages:

It is a port of Compact Framework 1.0 which has been introduced in 2003. Nobody cares about .NET 1.0 nowadays. 2.0 is available since 2005 and 3.5 will appear this month.

Although it is an old branch of the open source Mono project, it is a commercial product. I will not buy a license just to do some hobby programming for an outdated platform version.

My hope is, that the mono community will start porting their current framework release to Symbian! Chances to see an open source .NET port of the current framework are much better since Nokia released the Open C SDK for POSIX compatibility.