This part 3 of my monotouch tips and tricks series blog post covers the following topics:
To view my previous monotouch posts follow these links:
- Monotouch – Tips and Tricks (Part 2)
- Monotouch – Tips and Tricks (Part 1)
The new Mono 2.10.4 is out and comes with lots of bugfixes. To make it easier to get the latest and greatest on your ubuntu/debian machines, I have created a deb package which I will share with you.
The parallel environment package includes all important references so that you can build your GTK# and Asp.net MVC applications.
Once downloaded, the package installs to “/opt/mono-2.10″.
For this 2.10.4 build I once again used Patrick McEvoy`s great mono build script. For those of you who want to make your hands dirty and build mono yourself, you can find the script here: https://github.com/firegrass/mono-installer-script/
You can download the mono 2.10.4 debian/ubuntu package here.
Tags: mono, mono parallel environment, ubuntuThis is the second part of my “Monotouch – Tips and Tricks” series. I will write about the following topics:
A cool feature of the Fusonic EventGuide application is the ability to star your favourite events/gigs. All starred gigs are not only available on your personal running-order, you will also get a notification shortly before the event starts so that you don’t miss your favourite bands. So I needed a solution to show notifications some minutes before the gig starts and to allow the user to jump directly to the event info page (alert action buttons).
Tags: monotouch, UIAlertHelper, UIAlertView, UILocalNotificationI recently had the joy of writing the IPhone-implementation of our amazing Fusonic EventGuide Product.
Because of my C# .NET/Mono experience and love it was obvious to reuse skills and libraries and so we bought a licence of MonoTouch. This was after the lay-off of the monotouch team, but luckily mtouch 4.0 is very mature and from my point of view it is definitely worth investing this money even though you will have to buy the Xamarin IOS version sooner or later.
Although programming against the Monotouch APIs using monodevelop was a real joy and really straight forward, you will come over some problems or nasty bugs from time to time. The goal of my blog series is to summarize my experiences in the last two weeks, show you up some common pitfalls and tell you some tips + tricks and useful libraries I used for our product.
Tags: blackscreenbug, c#, iphone, monotouch
Experimenting with new features can really be time consuming in a statically compiled web-framework like Asp.net. Although it is possible to edit view-files at runtime, every time you need a new method in your controller or get that last LINQ-Query right, you have to …
…. (1) Restart your Web application
…. wait …
… wait even longer if the project is big …
… navigate to the the page where you are working at …
… just to find out that the behaviour is still not what you have expected …
… start from (1)
Well that can suck sometimes and costs you a lot of your spare time.
Tags: Asp.net mvc, mono, mvcUpdate: Mono 2.10.1 64BIT debian package available on sourceforge!
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/mono-parallel/files/mono-2.10.1-parallel-environment.deb/download
News: An updated 2.8.2 64BIT debian package is now available on sourceforge.
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/mono-parallel/files/mono-2.8.2-parallel-environment-amd64.deb/download
Last week the mono team released the new 2.8 version with lots of cool new features and improvements. I have created a new 2.8-parallel environment package and just uploaded it to Sourceforge, so you can use the new version for development/testing without manually compiling the whole stack and compromising your system.
Last evening I packaged a parallel environment of the new Mono 2.6.7 release, which was published on July 19th.
In this release the mono team fixed around 70 bug fixes. Other highlights are: