ok, so im trying out using C# with the tao framework, im just starting so some of these questions may be noobish but bare with me. what are some good tutorials for using the tao framework with C#? what is involved in deployment, to make a tao C# app run on another computer what is required aside from .net framework / mono, do i just make sure to include the appropriate dll's or is there a automatic way to ensure dependences are dealt with or what? what consideration are their for cross-platform compliance, to make a C# app that can run on mono in linux or osx, are there any special consideration i need to be aware of? EDIT: im using sharp develop 2.1 if that makes a diffrence

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what is involved in deployment, to make a tao C# app run on another computer what is required aside from .net framework / mono, do i just make sure to include the appropriate dll's or is there a automatic way to ensure dependences are dealt with or what?

You need to include the Tao.* dll and their native equivalent that are non-standard (which is basically all of them). So Tao.DevIL will require you include the devIL native dlls in the project too (as a copied content file works well, not a reference)... glut32 is used by tao.opengl too I think (yet isn't standard).
As for tao .dlls themselves, some are very large (eg opengl). What I did here was zip them all up, and include them as a content resource in the project. I then handle the AppDomain.AssemblyResolve event to trigger loading of the .dlls from the included .zip.

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what are some good tutorials for using the tao framework with C#?

From memory there are loads of samples with the tao distribution.

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what consideration are their for cross-platform compliance, to make a C# app that can run on mono in linux or osx, are there any special consideration i need to be aware of?

This should be covered in the Tao docs. There are (or at least used to be) differences in compiling Tao. And of course differences at the wrapped API level are still there (eg WGL in opengl).

As for tutorials, any OpenGL/OpenAL/DevIL/whatever tutorial will work. Since Tao is just a bunch of bindings, your c# code will be pretty similar to the equivalent c++/c/whatever code.

ok, thanks
iv figured out a bit already