Delphi for .NET Developer’s Guide

Creating Your First Mono Program

This section shows you how to create a short program in C# that will do a more complete test of the mono environment. Open an editor on the Linux machine: For this example, we will use gedit; however, any editor will do. (If you prefer, type command_line_applications, run vi, or emacs at the command prompt). Enter the following code:

using System;
class Hello
{
  public static void Main(String[] args) {
    Console.WriteLine("Mono is working...");
    for (int i = 0; i < args.Length; i++)
      Console.WriteLine("{0}. Hello {1}!", i, args[i]);
  }
}

• Find the Code on the CD: \Code\Chapter 08\Ex01.

Save the file as hello.cs, and open a terminal window. Navigate to the location of hello.cs and execute

$ mcs hello.cs

If all is well, ...