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Moonlight is a Mono based Linux port of Silverlight. Silverlight is Microsoft's cross-browser, cross platform plug-in for media experiences and rich interactive applications.

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Moonlight 2 vs Silverlight 3: huge performance gap

I have tried the simple test "Silverlight 2.0 animation test" at http://bubblemark.com, surprisingly Moonlight provided only 26 fps on Linux. Windows/Silverlight 3 gave me 192 fps on the exact same machine. Why is Moonlight so much slower than…
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Can I create a standalone (not ran in browser, having full trust) application with Moonlight?

I look forward to develop a WPF MVVC application which is to be ran both on Windows with .Net Framework and Mac/Linux with Mono. As far as I understand the only part of of WPF implemented in Mono is Silverlight as Moonlight. As far as I've read it…
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How does Olive (Mono) implement (W)PF?

While reading an article about Mono on Wikipedia, I found out there is a Mono sub/side-project called Olive which aims to bring the remaining bits of .NET to Mono - currently focusing on Workflow Foundation and WPF - though they for obvious reason…
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moonlight vs. silverlight :: datagrid incompatibility?

I'm trying to develop an application in moonlight. Now I'm trying to use a DataGrid to show some data. In an old silverlight project I used a DataGrid in this way:
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What is Moonlight technically?

There is surprisingly little information on the internet regarding what Moonlight is exactly from a technical point of view. Is it correct to understand it as Mono-based CoreCLR + base libraries (the same .dlls as Silverlight has as part of the…
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Silverlight/Moonlight on Android devices

I just got my first Android device, I love it... I also love the fact that you can create your own applications and distribute them as you please. I've read a little bit about Monodroid, and also that apparently Microsoft wants to put Silverlight on…
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Anyone using Moonlight?

Has anyone used Moonlight for real time app development? Is it really worth spending time with it? -Fahad
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Why wouldn't Microsoft want to hinder Mono and Moonlight?

Microsoft has all interest in preventing cross-platform software to happen. The incompatibility between Windows and Linux is the main reason why people don't migrate to Linux in large numbers. Both the Mono and Moonlight projects are trying to…
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Checking Silverlight Migration to Moonlight

We're in the process of creating a Silverlight project and wondered how we could validate/test if it would run on Moonlight. From regular .Net to Mono there is the Mono Migration Analyzer which generates a report on which methods are missing in Mono…
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Compiling moonlight application on Mac OS X

I'm using MonoDevelop 2.8.5 and I'm trying to compile a moonlight application, but it fails. I created a brand new Moonlight Application Project and tried to compile it, but it fails with the following error. Error: Framework 'Moonlight /…
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Moonlight, WebClient and "Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation"

I'm writing a little engine to download text from some .php files, I've done this engine in Visual c# and I haven't got problems. I'm doing this: [ ... ] WebClient client = null; try { client = new WebClient(); …
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What resources should I use to port my .NET application to Mono or Moonlight?

I have a few applications that might qualify for porting over to a Linux/Mac platform, but first I need to know what baseline of technology is safe for compatibility, what is marginal, and what is unsupported. Is there a consolidated list somewhere…
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Is MoonlightDesktop suitable for porting wpf app to Linux?

I understand Moonlight is no longer supported by Xamarin, but I have a WPF application written on Windows that I would like to port to Linux. I want to avoid rewriting the UI code. I came across a Xamarin project called MoonlightDesktop…
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Moonlight on PowerPC Mac

Silverlight stopped supporting PowerPC Macs after version 1.0. Will Moonlight 2.0 work on a PowerPC Mac? We are looking at writing the next generation of our product and we are considering Silverlight. However due to our existing customer base, we…
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System.Diagnostics.Process namespace missing

I am writing an application where I have to use Process.Start api using System.Diagnostics namespace. I am using moonlight libraries with mono-2.10. But I am getting this error "The type or namespace name `Process' could not be found. Are you…
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