Mono - Migrating from Windows to Linux

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Many content providers and application developers use .Net and windows are their source of revenue. To engage with clients on other platforms such as Linux, many businesses would have to completely reengineer their current applications to Linux friendly development environments which might not be feasible. However, the migration of C# based applications to Linux is possible under the Mono framework. Mono is an open source implementation of Microsoft’s .Net framework which can be considered as a viable way of redeploying windows and web (asp.net) based applications to Linux. This presentation will thusly outline how to migrate both winforms and webform applications to Linux running Mono with demonstrations for both.

Stream: C#/Mono

Paper: A paper has not yet been submitted.

Dr Trent Mifsud has over 11 years of experience in the IT Industry. He has an intimate knowledge of many programming languages with Java and C#. Trent has flown all over the world presenting to key Industries and Academic Institutions. In 2005 he was invited to Microsoft’s Mobile and Embedded Conference in Las Vegas as a recognised member of the Australian mobile development community. Presently Trent is employed as a Lecturer and Researcher at the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University. His during his tenure he has lectured and authored subjects at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in areas such as Mobile Device Design and Development and Service Oriented Architectures. Trent has also has masters and a PhD students working in these areas under his supervision. More recently Trent was asked to author a new Masters subject in his other area of expertise, Software Security. Also, Trent has developed instructional programming videos that are freely available and are currently being used at a range of learning intuitions across the planet. Trent holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science (domains: Service Oriented Computing, mobile and web architectures), a First Class Honours degree and a Bachelor Degree in Computing.