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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."

7 of 327 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Launch Times? by palegray.net · · Score: 3, Insightful

    My guess is approximately zero seconds, as Apple is sure to kill this.

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  2. Re:Why CLR (.NET mono) and not JVM (Java)? by pavon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    MonoTouch compiles the code into a native executable, rather than shipping with a VM. Apple has no reason to disallow that.

  3. Re:Launch Times? by thetoadwarrior · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Like MS will ever allow that to happen. If .Net and Mono were completely compatible then it would be much easier to port apps to Linux and therefore remove the need for Windows.

  4. Re:Why CLR (.NET mono) and not JVM (Java)? by kalirion · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Since when has it needed a reason?

  5. Re:Launch Times? by poetmatt · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's no magic that Mono is always a version behind .net or more. It's just that lots of people are not realizing this yet, or the same with silverlight. It's stupid because if it was complete compatible then people would actually have more interest in windows, too.

  6. Re:Launch Times? by tyrione · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because a secret agenda of theirs is to make you use XCode to develop apps. This was made quite clear to my former company on a project. That's why you won't see Java nor Flash any time soon, and the ToS explicitly forbids apps that execute external code. I theorize that by doing this they 1) want control and 2)hope that the iPhone development activity propagates into OS X development activity.

    Yes. Use our Development Tools on our Platform. Truly it is a secretive agenda. Get real.

  7. Re:Mono by jcr · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think you may be prejudiced by your previous experience.

    If his position is based on experience, then by definition it's not prejudice.

    -jcr

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