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After months of work and not talking much about it, our Professional iPhone Programming with MonoTouch is available for pre order on Amazon.com. This is an expansion of the iPhone Programming with MonoTouch ebook that was available last December. My coauthors
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I'll be speaking at the Chadnug user group on Tuesday . The subject will be iPhone Development for C#/.NET developers with MonoTouch. The user group starts at 5:45. Its in downtown Chattanooga, TN. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg
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UI TableView Example Code . There appears to be some confusion between myself and wiley/wrox about my source code. Our email server crashed last fall, so I have no idea what happened. I just know that I have gotten a few Tweets on Twitter.com about the
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I seem to be getting a few messages on Twitter about the source code for the MonoTouch ebook. The url for download in the code is at http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/Building-iPhone-and-iPod-touch-Applications-for-the-NET-C-Developer-with-MonoTouch.productCd-0470590734,descCd-DOWNLOAD.html
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I was working away writing today and I was playing with Sqlite in MonoTouch. I have my database working. I have the tables setup. I have indexes, triggers, and all kinds of stuff running over ADO.NET Sqlite Commands and Connections. Obviously, getting
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I'm a database type of guy. I like data. I work with data all the time. One thing that is common across all database is the need to retrieve the row identifier of a record that was just inserted. Oracle has a sequences. Sql Server has scope_identity().
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Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus and yes, you can do development on the iPhone SDK 3.2 Beta, monotouch, monodevelop, C#, and the iPhone today. I did a check of the System Information and boom, the System Version reports 3.2. PS. Somebody on twitter
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I've got some code running in the iPad Simulator. One thing I discovered is that an application has to be compiled against a specific version of the SDK. When I created a new iPad application, the updated iPad window for the Interface Builder became
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If you are in the technology field, or within the listening range of modern media, you've heard of the Apple iPad. The fact that it runs an updated version of the Apple iPhone OS is a big plus if you are looking to do development on the platform.
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If you didn't know it, the iPhone has two twenty second rules that developers need to pay attention to: The iPhone has a startup timer. If an application takes longer than 20 seconds to start up, it is killed by the iPhone OS. The iPhone OS will kill
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With .NET, executables are fairly small. Every application shares the .NET Framework, so the applications don’t have their own copy of the framework. MonoTouch is not built into the iPhone. MonoTouch applications must have their own copy of the framework.
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There are times when the user needs to be presented with some information or question. MonoTouch has a UIAlertView object. The UIAlertView is instantiated with a set of parameters. On the object instance, the .Show() method is called. For .NET developers,
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The NSUrl class is what allows an application to open other applications within the iPhone OS while passing parameters. The calling sequence is fairly simple. There are two steps to making this call: 1. When the NSUrl class is instantiated, a string representing
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The UIPicker is visually different than the drop down listbox that most .NET developers are familiar, however, it is designed to perform the same type of function. It allows users to select from a fixed set of data isntead of typing in data in a text
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Honestly, I thought that it was really cool when the Novell guys put a soft debugger into Mono/MonoTouch so that it is possible to debug an application running on the iPhone Simulator or on the actual device. Basically, its a set of code inside of MonoTouch
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