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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/08/05
Every C#/VB/.NET developer should read Difference Between Int32.Parse, Convert.ToInt32, and Int32.TryParse – CodeProject.
Then also read TryParse with default values.
It is all about handling values that are not Integers, Overflow values and Nulls. There are subtle differences, in the handling of the methods, and the exceptions they could throw: ArgumentNullException, FormatException and OverflowException.
Finally read all about the NumberStyles enumeration, IFormatProvider interface and CultureInfo (especially the difference between InvariantCulture, CurrentCulture, CurrentUICulture and InstalledUICulture).
Because getting your conversions right matters.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/14
Very interesting: Install AndroVM in VMware Player/Workstation – YouTube.
The successor is Genymotion “the faster Android emulator”, and seems to have an easier installation path: Run Android on Your Desktop With Genymotion Android Emulator.
One of the drawbacks of going native: the Delphi for Android compiler currently only generates ARM Android code, otherwise this would be a great way to test your apps.
But it works fine if you use Java, Oxygene for Java or MonoDroid: much faster than the emulator (which you cannot run in a VM at all).
There seems to be a way to install ARM translation, so I need to check that out: android – How to install google play service in the genymotion (ubuntu 13.04) .Currently it doesn’t have drag and drop suport – Stack Overflow.
–jeroen
via: Koushik Dutta – Google+ – Even if Microsoft is considering supporting Android apps on….
Posted in .NET, Android, Android Devices, Delphi, Delphi XE5, Development, Mobile Development, Mono for Android, Power User, Software Development | Tagged: Android emulator, VMware | 4 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/16
Just in case you missed it too:
Xamarin Studio is MonoDevelop plus a set of add-ins. Those add-ins provide the required functionality for working with Android and iOS projects, and integrate some Xamarin services such as the Component Store.
The development of MonoDevelop will continue like it has been in the past. All the improvements which are not related to Xamarin’s commercial offerings will be done in MonoDevelop, and we have plans for a lot of them: code analysis, version control, debugger, etc. We are committed to keep evolving MonoDevelop, because a better MonoDevelop means a better Xamarin Studio.
MonoDevelop will also keep working on Linux. There may be some rough edges with MonoDevelop 4.0 on Linux, since for this release we put our focus on Mac and Windows, since that’s what Xamarin’s customers use. So if you find any problems please file bugs!
–jeroen
via: [MonoDevelop] MonoDevelop and Xamarin Studio.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/27
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/10/12
Last week, Xamarin released version 2.8 of the MonoDevelop development environment.
Biggest feature is xCode 4 support (which integrated the Interface Builder therefore broke MonoDevelop 2.6).
Since it is hard to run xCode 3 on Mac OS X Lion (Mac OS X Lion more than prefers xCode 4), and you need at least xCode 4.2 beta to develop for iOS 5, this welcome upgrade when you are staying current on Mac OS X.
You can use MonoDevelop to create .NET applications for:
- iOS (iPhone/iPad/iPod-touch)
- Mac OS X
- Android
- Windows
- ASP.NET
Be sure to read the MonoDevelop 2.8 release notes, as even the list of Major Highlights is long:
- C# 4.0
- Defaults to the 4.0 profile.
- New Garbage Collection engine
- New Frameworks:
- Parallel Framework
- System.XAML
- Threadpool exception behavior has changed to match .NET 2.0
- potentially a breaking change for a lot of Mono-only software
- See information below in the “Runtime” section.
- New Microsoft open sourced frameworks bundled:
- System.Dynamic
- Managed Extensibility Framework
- ASP.NET MVC 2
- System.Data.Services.Client (OData client framework)
- Performance
- Large performance improvements
- LLVM support has graduated to stable
- Use mono-llvm command to run your server loads with the LLVM backend
- Preview of the Generational Garbage Collector
- Version 2.0 of the embedding API
- WCF Routing
- .NET 4.0’s CodeContracts
- Removed the 1.1 profile and various deprecated libraries.
- OpenBSD support integrated
- ASP.NET 4.0
- Mono no longer depends on GLIB
–jeroen
via: MonoDevelop 2.8 is Here! « Xamarin.
Posted in .NET, C#, Development, Mono for Android, MonoTouch, Software Development, xCode/Mac/iPad/iPhone/iOS/cocoa | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/04/07
Just released: Mono for Android.
This – like MonoTouch for iOS – allows you to develop, debug and deploy Android applications using .NET
Mono for Anroid includes Visual Studio 2010 integration.
If you have a MonoTouch license, you temporarily get a discount on Mono for Android.
Now you can use .NET for the major mobile platforms: iOS, Android and Windows Phone 7 sharing major portions of your code across those platforms.
–jeroen
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