Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / December 2004

Directly running the application probably is out of the question, but
you might be lucky. I would consider the following options:

- The Microsoft Shared Source CLI Implementation
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/Dndotne
t/html/mssharsourcecli.asp>
- Mono <http://www.mono-project.com>
- DotGNU <http://www.dotgnu.org/>

I do not have experience with either of them and don't know what
features of .Net your application uses, but would guess that Mono is
your 'best' bet.

If those do not work out, consider:
- porting to Java
- back porting to Visual Basic, then to RealBasic
 <http://www.realsoftware.com/>

Finally, there is the option of running Virtual PC
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/virtualpc/virtualpc.aspx?pid=virtu
alpc>, and running MS Windows and your application on it. That will
work, but may be too slow.

Reinder

    There is a standard way to run Windows Applications on Mac:
A Windows emulator. Virtual PC from Microsoft is easily availble.