ChrisNTR - Chris Hardy's Web Developer Weblog

Mix10 iPhone App is Live!

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:11:00 -0800

Hello All, The Mix 10 iPhone application is live and up on the AppStore! You can find it here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mix10/id357234402?mt=8 The app was written in C# using .NET APIs thanks to MonoTouch from Novell. We were planning on announcing...(read more)

Mix10 iPhone App is coming!

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:36:00 -0800

In just over two weeks from now, Mix 10 will be kicking off at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas and no doubt there will be a lot of interesting content with Silverlight 4, VS2010 and Windows Phone 7 Series all around the corner. Something that I always find...(read more)

Video of my MonoTouch session from DDD8

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:50:00 -0800

A few days ago, Phil put up a video of my MonoTouch session at DDD8 on Vimeo. Check the video out below. C# on the iPhone with MonoTouch - Chris Hardy - DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper 8 from Phil Winstanley on Vimeo . An overview of what's possible using...(read more)

My MonoTouch session at DDD8

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:33:00 -0800

Yesterday (Saturday 30th January 2010) was the 8th Developer Developer Developer conference held at the Microsoft offices in Reading, UK. I won't go in to detail about the event but suffice to say - it was amazing! Well put together, great sponsors, great...(read more)

Slides from my MonoTouch UGIAltNetConf session

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:29:00 -0800

Good Evening, Last weekend I jetted off to Milan to speak at the 5th UGI Alt.Net Conference at Avende's offices. Hosted by Simone and Emanuele (and a few others), the conference covered the web, mobile and beyond hosting some interesting session such...(read more)

Mix 10 sessions available for voting

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:36:00 -0800

Hello all, I recently blogged about submitting a talk for Mix 10 in Vegas in March, I submitted two talks myself and they are now available for you to vote upon here... One of the sessions is "C# on the iPhone with Monotouch". The session abstract is...(read more)

Early early preview of Hanselminutes for the iPhone

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:02:00 -0800

So back in November, I came across this tweet... My reply to this was so... So... I did! Well kind of. At the moment the app is very very basic. You can play and listen to podcasts but that's about it. The reasoning behind this is because I've only got...(read more)

Launching MonotouchExamples.com - Examples for Monotouch

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:44:00 -0800

When I was first playing around with Objective-C and iPhone Development, I found the website http://iphoneexamples.com a great resource on completing some simple and some more complex scenarios with the iPhone SDK. Since Monotouch has been released and...(read more)

Mix10 Open Call for Sessions

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:28:00 -0800

Not too long ago, Microsoft released details on the Mix10 event coming up in Las Vegas during the middle of March. Already a few non-Microsoft sessions have been announced such as Miguel de Icaza's session on the Mono Project and Paul Dawson's session...(read more)

Great Fridays Xmas Monotouch App on the Appstore

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:00:00 -0800

For our work Christmas Card this year, we decided to create a Xmas video for all to see (viewable here ). To go along with the video we decided to create a iPhone app. This was a great way to play around with Monotouch and get a nice example of a Monotouch...(read more)

Speaking at the 5th UgiALT.Net Conference on Monotouch

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:10:00 -0800

Good evening! Just a quick note to say that I'm going to be speaking at the 5th Italian UgiALT.NET conference in Milan, Italy on Saturday 23rd January 2010. The conference will mainly be in Italian (apart from my session and maybe a few others) so that...(read more)

Custom loading screen on Monotouch

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:48:00 -0800

I had a request from my previous post about the DoneDone app to give a little insight on how the loading screens were created. I finally got round to creating an example project which shows one way of creating this sort of effect. The way I created the...(read more)

Creating a FlipView with Monotouch

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:37:00 -0800

It seems that the default project templates that Monotouch provides doesn't include a FlipView template. This template normally provides a way of flipping a view to another view which displays different information. I created a demo project (which includes...(read more)

Converting a UIImage to a ByteArray in Monotouch

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:59:00 -0800

Monotouch Tips Part 1 Today I'm doing a post on a common problem I see a lot of people run into whilst developing with Monotouch. Having the ability to consume web services within Monotouch is a great feature of Monotouch however - normally sending data...(read more)

DoneDone Monotouch iPhone App Screencast

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:47:00 -0800

A little background for the iPhone application... DoneDone is a web app that manages issue tracking for projects. It's currently our choice bug tracking solution at work . Until a few months ago, the API they expose only allowed for the ability to add...(read more)