Wallace B. McClure

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Great news today.  Apple has updated their developer SDK License effective today.  Previously, MonoTouch was sitting in a grey area.  They appeared to follow the letter of the law, but their was a question if it followed the spirit of the law.  With MonoTouch, I can build a native iPhone app with C# and the .NET framework.  The key is you can build native apps with it. It's a great tool.  I love.  Anyway, now, with Apple's changes that were announced, we now have conclusive proof that Apple is allowing Monotouch based apps.  This is great stuff!.  Along with this announcement, Novell has announced a discount of 15% that is effective for the next two weeks  The  discount code is "MONO-331"  After you go buy a copy of MonoTouch, take the 15% that you saved and buy a copy of our MonoTouch book.  Then, with the money you saved, go buy a beer, sit down and read our book.  Its on me!

Are you a .NET Developer wanting to get into developing on the Apple iPhone and iPad? Learn iPhone Programming for Free with Wrox, Novell, and McClure. Wrox/Wiley has released Wallace McClure’s Wrox Blox on Novell’s MonoTouch for free.  The MonoTouch Wrox Blox is available at: http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-406371.html.

For .NET Developers, Novell has produced the Trial Version of MonoTouch.  The Trial Version is a free download that allows a developer to write and build applications and test them in the iPhone simulator.  The Trial Version is available at: http://monotouch.net/DownloadTrial.

Wallace B. (Wally) McClure, President of Scalable Development, Inc., is the author of the Wrox Blox on Novell’s MonoTouch and the author of the updated Professional iPhone Programming with MonoTouch recently released.  In addition, McClure has produced a downloadable video podcast introducing MonoTouch.  The video is available for download from http://aspnetpodcast.com or directly at:http://bit.ly/deMCoJ.

I'm heading out to VSLive next week.  I'm flying out on Sunday morning.  I'll be in mid afternoon.  Meeting some folks for dinner on Sunday.  Send me a message if you are interested in joining us!

Our MonoTouch Book is out.  It was great working with Chris Hardy, Craig Dunn, Martin Bowling, and Rory Blyth on this book.  With this book, you'll be able to use your existing knowledge of .NET to target the Apple iPhone.

I'm excited to announce that I am speaking at VSLive Redmond in August.  My two sessions are:

I've got some code running in the iPad Simulator.  One thing I discovered is that an application has to be compiled against a specific version of the SDK.  When I created a new iPad application, the updated iPad window for the Interface Builder became availble.  Very nice indeed.  Everything was the same as before, so that was good.  I fired up the iPad Simulator, and I got this below: