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New MonoMac Refresh!
As part of today's release of the Mono Packager for OSX we have issued a new MonoMac refresh. As we create more sample code, and start to write real applications with MonoMac, we have updated the API...
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Mono Packager and the Apple AppStore
We are happy to announce the Mono Packager for OSX. MonoDevelop UI for Mac Packages and Installers. The Mono Packager for OSX makes it possible to create self-contained Mono applications that will run...
View ArticlePatterns for Creating UITableViewCells
At one point or another, every UITableView programmer will outgrow the default set of UITableViewCells styles available to them, and they will be forced to customize the cells to provide a better user...
View ArticleFirst MonoMac App Hits the Apple AppStore
Yvan Janssens (@yvanjanssens) just wrote to let me know that iProxify Plush, his MonoMac-powered application, has been accepted for distribution on Apple's Mac AppStore. This is an important...
View ArticleMonoMac Refresh!
We just pushed a new refresh of MonoMac. This release contains: New complete bindings: QuartzComposer, CoreWlan, PdfKit, ImageKit and Addresbook. AppKit: new classes: NSBezierPath, NSGradient;...
View ArticleMonoMac hotfix
Hylke Bons warned us of a limitation in our MonoMac packager so we are issuing a new MonoMac refresh that fixes various bugs: Supports using Mono.Posix.dll in packaged bundles. Supports using...
View ArticleMonoMac 1.0 is out
Almost a year ago we started building a set of Mono bindings for building native MacOS X applications. Our original goals were modest: bind enough of AppKit that you could build native desktop...
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MonoTouch 4.0
We just released MonoTouch 4.0, a product to build iOS applications using C# and .NET. We also released our new Mono for Android product. New in MonoTouch 4.0MonoTouch 4.0 is a major upgrade to our...
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Glass button for iPhone
Since iOS does not provide a default glossy button implementation I wrote my own, based mostly on looking at a screenshot of Apple's own. Some folks have been using the UIGlassButton generator, but I...
View ArticleMonoMac add-in for MonoDevelop
After a small hiatus we are back. If you have been using MonoMac to build MacOS applications, we have just released an update to the MonoDevelop.MonoMac add-in that should fix the problem with...
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Sales Force app built with MonoTouch
I do not blog very often about apps built with MonoTouch, but this application is drop-dead gorgeous. It is a tool designed to be used by the sales force of a company. You can download the app from the...
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TestFlight support in MonoDevelop
We have just released for TestFlight support in MonoDevelop. This makes it simpler for developers to deploy their Ad-Hoc builds directly to Testflight, we added a "Publish to TestFlight" option: The...
View ArticleMonoTouch 5.0 is out
Yesterday we released MonoTouch 5.0, the companion to Apple's iOS 5.0 release. Apple tends to ship Objective-C APIs that are configured through an NSDictionary instance containing configuration keys....
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Styling your controls in MonoTouch on iOS 5
Starting with iOS 5 it is possible to more easily style your UIViews. Apple did this by exposing a new set of properties on most views that can be tuned. For example, to configure the TintColor of a...
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Bubbles
Recently one of our customers asked about how to implement a conversation display similar to the iOS SMS/Messages display. You can find the BubbleCell sample in our Github repository. This is what the...
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MonoMac Updates
We have been hard at work at improving the MonoMac API to allow .NET developers to create native Mac applications using C#, F#, IronPython or their favorite .NET language. There are couple of goodies...
View ArticleCall for Comments: Strongly Typed Notifications
I am adding support for strongly typed notifications to MonoTouch and MonoMac. The idea behind this is to take guesswork, trips to the documentation and trial and error from using notifications on iOS...
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Key-Value-Observing on MonoTouch and MonoMac
This morning Andres came by IRC asking questions about Key Value Observing, and I could not point him to a blog post that would discuss the details on how to use this on C#. Apple's Key-Value Observing...
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MonoMac Updates
Over the last couple of months we have been silently updating both the MonoMac APIs as well as the IDE support for it. All of the features that I talked back in March are now publicly available. More...
View ArticleFeedback Requested: Binding NSAttributedString
As NSAttributedString plays a big role, I have been trying to figure out a way of improving the process by which NSAttributedString are created from C#. Status TodayWhile we support the...
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