I have been smiling for two days now. I have completed my first cut of the Gtk# Win32 Installer for Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 SDK. The ultimate goal of this installer is to provide the best development experience when creating Gtk# applications in a Windows development environment.

Again, this is just the first pass, but already this installer will make it so that all you need to do are these 4 steps:

• Install Windows


• Install Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 SDK or Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 (for the best possible experience)


• Install Gtk# Win32 Installer for Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 SDK.


• Restart your system and begin creating Gtk# and Glade# applications from within Visual Studio(as seen on this tutorial included with the installer) or the Command prompt.

Gone are the days of having to go through a lot of steps to ensure your development environment had all the bases covered in order to enjoy step-debugging and integrated development within Visual Studio.

Links

Novell Forge Project Page
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Gracias

I want to thank my two beautiful girls Maria (madre) and Monica (hija) for cutting me some slack while developing this installer. I also want to commend PJ Cabrera for collecting feedback in Puerto Rico -- I only get to see Texas and Boston Win32 developers now days.

Special thanks to Mauricio and Carlos my two new Brazilian hacking acquaintances, for their drive motivation and ideas that went a long way to inspire this effort.