Comment by akdor1154
7 years ago
In a similar situation - I've had reasonable success in Linux developing a .net framework c# app in VS Code with Mono from the Ubuntu PPA. Almost everything works but for the odd project calling native Windows DLLs, so I keep windows around for manipulating VS projects and compiling these oddities. Most dev can happen in Linux though.
In my case we use a closed-source commercial UI library very extensively whose vendor has previously stated they have no interest in supporting Linux or WINE so doing C# dev on Linux is totally out of the question for me, unfortunately. The company I work for has a long-term strategic initiative to transition to an entirely web-based UI so eventually we may be able to remove the C# code but that's still years off for my group.
(In retrospect tying ourselves to a closed-source library like that was a mistake; if I could go back in time and put us on a different path (using the technologies available at the time) I would have gone with C++ and Qt instead which would have allowed for cross-platform development and deployment. Not to mention that because Qt is open-source (even if we would have had to buy a proprietary license for it at the time) we could fix any bugs we encountered ourselves, unlike our current UI library where we just need to come up with work-arounds until the vendor can get around to fixing them. But these decisions were made before I was hired so I just have to live with them.)