Solidworks and .net...

[denisb]

Hi all !

I tried Solidworks 2009 with 1.2-rc1, and was really pleased to see that
it really works now, and is useable for real modelling. There are still
some annoying bugs, but nothing that prevents using it. That's a giant
step ! I updated appdb, rating it silver, but it is still queued. Only
vcrun2005 and msxml6 winetricks are required.

Anyway, I have some questions : some add-ons ( part libraries, design
analysis modules...) relies on .net30. It is a requirement for the
installation on windows. But installing it with winetricks breaks
everything...

As most of the functions seems to work with wine without ms dotnet
installation, I was wondering : does wine supposed to offer complete
replacement of dotnet framework ?

[madewokherd]

As most of the functions seems to work with wine without ms dotnet
installation, I was wondering : does wine supposed to offer complete
replacement of dotnet framework ?

If you install the Windows version of Mono (which currently supports
.NET 3.5; they're working on 4.0), Wine can use it instead of .NET.
See http://wiki.winehq.org/Mono

Wine ships with some registry keys and files that installers check to
decide whether .NET is present. This is so that they do not insist on
installing .NET if you prefer to use Mono.

This should ideally be a complete .NET replacement, but at the moment
it's very incomplete and what is there usually doesn't work very well.

Beating Wine and Mono into shape would be a lot of work, and very
little work is going into it currently.

Still, if your software doesn't work in Wine with Mono installed, you
can file a bug.