Visual Basic(VB.net)

[braj]

I am a new apple user and i am wondering is VB.net can be run on mac?
I am planing to develope a program using vb.net on mac platform. Can this be done?

[Brad]

Well, you can develop regular VB.net software from within Virtual PC, but you'll still be writing Windows software, not Mac software.

The closest development environment for Mac OS X would probably be REALBasic.

from http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/10/29/dev_osx.html
I mostly use VB.NET in my work on the .NET platform, and so when I went searching for a VB equivalent in the Mac world, I was delighted to find REALbasic from REAL Software. As the name implies, REALbasic is a development environment on the Mac platform that uses the modern version of the Basic programming language.

Building Mac applications using REALbasic is very similar to using Visual Studio .NET to build Windows application. You build your user interface by dragging and dropping controls to a window and then write codes to stitch the controls together. A bonus point of REALbasic is that you can target your application to run on both the Mac and the Windows platform.

Actually, there's also mono (http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page), but I haven't heard much about how well it does/doesn't work. It looks very promising, though.

[ast3r3x]

I don't know anything about .net, but REALBasic, is REALLY close to Visual Basic. I've made programs in REALBasic, compiled them as windows apps, and submitted them for VB classes, and most of the code was the same.