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Linux Mono to run Windows EXE file errors out

I have a C# program that runs perfectly under Windows 10. It uses Connected Services so that I can add in additional Class and Method functions to connect to Ultimate Software's HR system and pull our employee information from. What I would like to do is run this application under Linux CentOS. I installed Mono for Linux on both CentOS 6 and CentOS 7; and verified 100% that it can and does run compiled Visual Studio C# programs under Linux. No problem.

However, when I run the EXE program under Linux Mono, it does not connect to the external website defined in Connected Services.

Here is the line it is failing on.

loginClient = new LoginServiceClient("WSHttpBinding_ILoginService");

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And the error I get back, is (of course), a NullReferenceException as the defined object of 'loginClient' never gets instantiated.

System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

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Has anyone ever successfully taken an EXE file for Windows using Connected Services and run it under Linux Mono?

Thank you,
Jeff

noci

AFAIK you need to compile it under Mono tooling on Linux.
to run .EXE files you need WINE (and then some specific configuration).

(Don't Assume Mono work like windows software. it is different, the platform is different, and a lot of stuff isn't ported.
There used to be moonlight (look alike of Silverlight) except that microsoft broke it repeatedly by changing the specs after a new moonlight release was done. Other things might not work either.)

jgrammer42

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AH...I did not know that. I will try that and see how it runs.

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jgrammer42

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Recompiling using the MONO IDE did not make a difference. I will have to figure out some other method.

Thank you very much!