ChrisNTR - Chris Hardy's Web Developer Weblog

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)

Gratuitous Graphics with CoreAnimation and MonoTouch

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:02:00 -0700

I was going to do a blog post on a DoneDone iPhone app I have been developing, but I got a little carried away with Simon's fantastic core animation post here: http://simon.nureality.ca/?p=161 I thought I'd give it a go and see what horrible graphics...(read more)

Monotouch for Free?

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:55:00 -0700

You may have noticed that Novell released a way of creating native iPhone applications with C# and potentially any other .Net language with Monotouch , only to find out that it's $399 for a single developer license. Fear not, last night Novell released...(read more)

On the way back from Mix 09

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:44:00 -0700

AT&T have kindly opened up their internet for the weekend (at Philly airport) which gives me a good opportunity to update my blog a little bit. This week I popped over to Las Vegas for the Microsoft Mix 09 conference. A conference which puts together...(read more)

Great Fridays dot Com version 0.11 is live!

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:08:00 -0800

Twitter reference: http://twitter.com/chrisntr/status/1158701480 We finally got a site up on the tubes for Great Fridays - go check it out!...(read more)

*chirp - believe the hype?

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:53:00 -0800

Twitter reference: http://twitter.com/chrisntr/status/1162024673 & http://twitter.com/chrisntr/status/1162055645 *chirp is a WPF Twitter app which has seem to be getting quite a bit of good press from people I follow on Twitter. However; as nice as...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC RC1 Is Out!

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:44:00 -0800

Twitter reference... After being in Beta for a month or two, the ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 1 is out and ready to download. Scott Guthrie put together a gigantic post on the features of this release - which heavily focuses on tooling support and bug...(read more)

MVC Storefront

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:00:00 -0800

Twitter reference... Last night I finished watching the MVC Storefront videos; Since April 2008, Rob Conery has been putting together example videos of building a real world ASP.NET MVC app called the MVC Storefront. Through these videos there have been...(read more)

Micro-blogging Challenge

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:29:00 -0800

Twitter.com is a (now) well known "Micro-blogging" site where users have 140 characters to get down their thoughts and actions for the day. If it really is "Micro-blogging" then for every tweet that I make - I should be able to create a ful blogl post...(read more)

Great Fridays - A new start with ASP.NET MVC

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 08:52:00 -0800

For the past 9 months I have been working at Lightmaker Manchester. Since last Friday I am now working at Great Fridays (GFGP Limited) with the same great team from Lightmaker Manchester, with the same enthusiasm and skills from Lightmaker Manchester...(read more)

Oxite - The ASP.NET MVC CMS

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:38:00 -0800

The guys over at Channel 9 have created the first blogging engine/content management system (CMS) based on the open source ASP.NET MVC framework. It's named Oxite and is avaliable to download now (in a Alpha version) on the Codeplex website . The first...(read more)

DDD7 Grok Talk - Open Source and Microsoft

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:05:00 -0800

This weekend I attended DDD7 , a free community conference held at the Microsoft Reading Campus. I presented a short Grok talk during the lunch hour on Open Source and Microsoft. Since the event didn't seem to have a internet connectivity, I used Dom...(read more)

Achieving Avoid Highways (Motorways) with Microsoft's Virtual Earth

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:26:00 -0700

A common problem that many developers face when using the Microsoft Virtual Earth SDK is that out of the box, you cannot generate routes which avoid highways/motorways. This functionality is available on Google Maps but not via the Google Maps API. It...(read more)