After downloading the gtk sharp installers, I wandered around the intertubes for 45 minutes trying to figure out how to do a basic sample gtk app in visual studio and couldn’t find anything that was truly useful. All either used mono-develop, or didn’t work. I couldn’t even figure out what assemblies to reference.

Turns out I was looking in the bin folder of the gtk-sharp folder rather than the lib folder. But at least your sample gave me the names of the dlls I was looking for. And, a code sample that actually works…. amazing.

I’m very glad to be able to use VS to build Linux capable apps. (Despite all of the noise from fanboys out there who want to chime in with reasons that this isn’t necessary rather than offering useful help).

I will say, that I used a console app instead of the windows forms app project template, and then went in and changed the output type to “Windows Application” doing this created a project with significantly fewer references that might add GUI related stuff to my auto-complete box that I didnt want in there.

Thanks for an excelent post.