Wallace B. McClure

What a wild and crazy last 6 months its been for my personal development direction.  I've always been excited about mobile development.  Every couple of years, I ask somebody at Wrox about a book on mobile development.  Every time, the response is along the lines of "You are f***ing kidding."  In June/July, Novell, the NetWare guys, announced MonoTouch.  Its a library that allows developers writing in .NET/C# to target the iPhone.  Wow, .NET developers, who are the largest market of developers could target the iPhone, the smartphone that clearly has the most mindshare.  I sent an exploratory email to someone at Wrox about doing a Wrox Blox on MonoTouch.  The response was almost immediate, "Get me a proposal and get started.  The iPhone is H O T."

I downloaded and installed MonoDevelop 2.2 on my Windows 7 laptop as well as installing Mono 2.6.  Everything installed correctly.  I decided to create my first ASP.NET web application and see if this will actually work.  I created an ASP.NET Web Project.  I got the following errors;

I see all kinds of problems with mobile development and companies trying to do mobile development and I've boiled them down into my 10 Commandments of Mobile Development:

I want to thank Microsoft for naming me an ASP.NET MVP for 2010.

I wanted to thank everyone that purchased a copy of my MonoTouch ebook.  I got an email from my editor at Wrox last week and he saiys that sales are going very well.  I think mobile is finally panning out!

Rock!

Since no one else has said it, I will.  Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and .NET 4.0 Beta 1 are on msdn for subscribers.  Just stay off until my download is complete. ;-)