Flash with C#

Mainsoft Grasshopper has been around for quite some time now and in case you don’t know what it is here is a quote from their website:

“Grasshopper is the freely available Developer Edition of Mainsoft, a Visual Studio plug-in that you can use to create server and ASP.NET applications, or port existing .NET 2.0 applications on Linux and other Java-enabled platforms, without having to re-engineer your code in Java. Grasshopper 2.x introduces support for the Visual Studio 2005 development environment, Visual Basic, and C# 2.0, including the generics language feature, the .NET Framework 2.0, and ASP.NET 2.0 controls. Use Grasshopper and the Visual Studio IDE to code, compile, debug, and deploy your application natively on the Java EE platform.”

Grasshopper is really cool, it allows me to use my favorite development tool (Microsoft Visual Studio) to create applications in my favorite set of technologies (ASP.NET) and then host these applications in a low cost Linux Based hosting environment.

Today I’ve found yet another great product that allows you to create applications with Microsoft C# which is compiled into standard Flash (SWF) files. Again this product allows me to develop in the comfort of my trusted Visual Studio IDE!

“GOA WinForms is an implementation of the standard System.Windows.Form .NET library for both Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight. It allows .NET developers to write standard WinForms applications that will run on these two RIA platforms.”