[sword-devel] .Net/C# and Sword

[Martin Gruner]

Jason,

all I know is that BibleCS for Sword 1.5.8 hasn't been released yet.
So I assume that there is not too much going on there.

Does C#/.NET provide a good rendering engine (HTML etc.)?

mg

Am Mittwoch, 18. Januar 2006 19:06 schrieb Jason Turner:
> Martin,
>
> It was my understanding that the BibleCS guys have been working on the
> new and updated version of BibleCS for a while. I don't have any
> intention to interrupt thier work. My main goal of getting sword +
> .net working together was to make sword more accessable to windows
> developers.
>
> That said, anyone who wants to get involved in the rewrite is welcome
> to. I'm not sure yet how / where I will host and organize the rewrite
> of Biblestudy, I'll post here as I figure out what I am doing.
>
> -Jason
>
> On 1/18/06, Martin Gruner <mg.pub at gmx.net> wrote:
> > Hi Jason,
> >
> > this sounds really exciting!
> >
> > Is there a possibility to join forces with other Windows developers and
> > to make this a community project to succeed BibleCS? I don't know how
> > Troy and Chris would think about that, but I assume that they would be
> > relieved if others would take care of the Windows frontend. Just a
> > suggestion.
> >
> > mg
> >
> > Am Mittwoch, 18. Januar 2006 15:59 schrieb Jason Turner:
> > > Yesterday I got sword compiling with Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition
> > > as a DLL. Using that DLL, I got SWIG to generate a C# wrapper for me.
> > > That C# wrapper was then compiled with Visual C# 2005 Express Edition.
> > > I then proved that I was able to query the list of installed modules
> > > and look up keys in them.
> > >
> > > BTW, the Express Editions are FREE visual studio products.
> > >
> > > I plan to rewrite biblestudy using C# very soon. This new version of
> > > BibleStudy will be windows specific, because linux does not yet have
> > > great support for the Windows.Forms package in .net, but using the C#
> > > library under linux (with Mono) is very much a possibility.
> > >
> > > I plan to make the DLL's available for download soon. If anyone wants
> > > to play with them sooner than soon, let me know. They are probably
> > > small enough to just send to the mailing list.
> > >
> > > -Jason
> > >
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