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iPhone Gets .Net App Development

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the next-comes-drag-and-drop-development dept.

snydeq writes "Novell has announced MonoTouch 1.0, a commercial SDK that allows developers to build iPhone apps using Microsoft's .Net Framework instead of the Apple-designated C or Objective-C languages. The SDK leverages Novell's Mono runtime for running Windows apps on non-Windows systems, allowing developers to utilize code and libraries written for .Net and programming languages like C#. With MonoTouch, the Mono runtime provides such developer services as garbage collection, thread management, type safety, and Web services, said Mono leader Miguel de Icaza."

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  1. C++/CLI by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Managed Extensions to C++ is old.
    Newer versions of .NET have C++/CLI now.

    C++/CLI is great for interop with legacy applications that will not interop via web services or COM.
    I created a wrapper library in C++/CLI that wrapped .Net class libraries I wrote in C#. In this c++/CLI library, I exported functions as C functions using the stdlib calling convention. This allowed a lot of legacy applications on Windows to interop with .net libraries.

  2. Re:Left fuckers by mrraven · · Score: 2, Funny

    Never, a Libertarian is just a greedball Republican who smokes pot.

    --
    Tired of all the isms, don't exploit people as an employer, or a government, mmmmK?