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I recently blogged about my thoughts on the Microsoft Windows Mobile / Google Android disasters . In the mean time, Google did nothing to change my thoughts. They introduced the Nexus One. It sounds cool until you do a little digging and find out its...
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http://www.red-gate.com/products/ants_performance_profiler/care_about_performance_ebook.htm My buddy Paul Glavich has written a book on how to optimize performance in an .NET application. Well done Paul!!!!!!!! In this complete guide to performance profiling...
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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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I bought this book a few weeks ago. I've been reading it and trying to absorb the features in the iPhone's version of Safari. I'm impressed. This book contains a huge amount of information about Safari on the iPhone. So, why is this important...
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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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I want to thank Microsoft for naming me an ASP.NET MVP for 2010.
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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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I downloaded and installed MonoDevelop 2.2 on my Windows 7 laptop as well as installing Mono 2.6. Everything installed correctly. I decided to create my first ASP.NET web application and see if this will actually work. I created an ASP.NET Web Project...
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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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I wrote the following code to put a point on a map on the iPhone. It works pretty well. Basically, I draw a map, then I inherit from the MKAnnotation object and create a new constructor, go out to geocoder and get a lat lon to senter the map on, and finally...