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MonoTouch 5.0 released: iOS 5 support for Mono on the iOS 5 release day

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/10/13

With the and iOS 5 release today and the MonoDevelop 2.8 release last week, there is also a new MonoTouch 5.0 released that binds the two and allows you to develop iOS 5 using Mono.

Almost like a mirracle: on the iOS 5 release day, MonoTouch 5 gets released. Lot’s of new stuff to play with, just read the announcement :)

Quote: “If you already have MonoTouch, simply launch MonoDevelop and you will be prompted to update – it’s that easy!”

Be sure to also read the new MonoTouch 5 documentation on new iOS  5 features and the comprehensive API diff between MonoTouch 4.2 and 5.0.

–jeroen

via: MonoTouch 5.0 – MonoTouch.

Posted in .NET, C#, Development, Mobile Development, MonoTouch, Software Development, xCode/Mac/iPad/iPhone/iOS/cocoa | Leave a Comment »

MonoDevelop 2.8 is Here! via: Xamarin blog

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 »

Mac OS X Lion Supports Running 2 Additional OS X Instances Within a Virtual Machine

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/07/12

Good news for developers and IT engineers:

The new Mac OS X Lion EULA contains a phrase basically indicating you are a allowed to run 2 additional copies or instances of OS X Lion on each Mac already running OSX Lion.

This is a big change for OS X users.

For the beta, there were already steps on how to setup such a VM on a Mac or PC (including faking it to be the OS X Server), hopefully those steps have become a lot simpler now.
Probably these steps on how to make a OS X Bootable Installer from a USB Flash Drive helps too.

The OS X Lion release is already available to developers, and should be available to the general public really soon now.

–jeroen

via: Mac OS X Lion Supports Running Additional OS X Instances Within a Virtual Machine.

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winapi – Best way to do non-flickering, segmented graphics updates in Delphi? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/07/05

Recently, Jon Lennart Aasenden (of Surface Library fame) asked a nice winapi – Best way to do non-flickering, segmented graphics updates in Delphi question on StackOverflow.

Though the question is marked Delphi, the boundaries and solution very generic, and apply to any graphics library or GUI you develop: Windows, Mac, iOS, et cetera:

  • Avoid double buffering when using GUI connections
  • Draw only what you need
  • Avoid redrawing whenever possible (for instance by letting the OS perform scrolling for you)
–jeroen

Posted in .NET, Delphi, Development, Software Development, xCode/Mac/iPad/iPhone/iOS/cocoa | 2 Comments »

SwitchResX helped me switch my Mac machine to 1360×768 and 1888×1062

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/12/24

A while ago, I got involved in Mac programming again after more than a decade of absence.
It felt like a warm reunion.

A Mac Mini Server serves as a development machine: it is about the same price as a regular Mac Mini, but packs 2 HDDs which for me is more useful than one HDD and a DVD player.

However, living in the Windows world for a long time long, and having had RSI in the DOS era almost two decades ago, I had a few wishes for using it.

The first was keyboard wise. The second is custom resolutions. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Apple, Development, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, RSI, Software Development, UltraNav keyboards, xCode/Mac/iPad/iPhone/iOS/cocoa | 10 Comments »

iBook store: Apple Published Six Free Electronic Books for Developers

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/12/23

Apple added some of their on-line books to the iBooks store for off-line reading on your iPad (or iPhone, though I double people will use that for readong).

Since you can only get to those from your iPad/iPhone iBook app, I included google search links for the online versions:

Note that iOS Human Interface Guidelines is not availeble outside the USA iBook store.
But it is almost as easy to read your PDFs through the DropBox iPad app (it even links to iBooks if you want to!).

Sharing your PDFs using DropBox has the added benefit that you can have the PDF both on your development machine and your iPad for reference.

–jeroen

via Apple Publishes Six Free Electronic Books for Developers | Cult of Mac.

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cocoa pointer types: the * is mandatory

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/12/21

Coming from a Delphi background I’m highly spoiled by the feature that you do noe need to explicitly mark each and every use of a reference, pointer or class type as being a pointer: they always are, so Delphi implicitly knows. No need for a ^reference marker there (yes, there are a few corner case exceptions to this rule).

The same holds for .NET languages: they know when a type is a reference type, no need for those extra characters.

The Objective-C compiler – used for building cocoa applications in xCode – doesn’t know, so you have to include a star whenever a type is to be used as a pointer.

For instance, this will yield a compiler error “Cannot use object as a parameter to a method“: Read the rest of this entry »

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