Chris Hardy

Creating a FlipView with Monotouch by Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR)

It seems that the default project templates that Monotouch provides doesn't include a FlipView template. This template normally provides a way of flipping a view to another view which displays different information. I created a demo project (which includes...

Converting a UIImage to a ByteArray in Monotouch by Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR)

Monotouch Tips Part 1 Today I'm doing a post on a common problem I see a lot of people run into whilst developing with Monotouch. Having the ability to consume web services within Monotouch is a great feature of Monotouch however - normally sending data...

DoneDone Monotouch iPhone App Screencast by Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR)

A little background for the iPhone application... DoneDone is a web app that manages issue tracking for projects. It's currently our choice bug tracking solution at work . Until a few months ago, the API they expose only allowed for the ability to add...

Gratuitous Graphics with CoreAnimation and MonoTouch by Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR)

I was going to do a blog post on a DoneDone iPhone app I have been developing, but I got a little carried away with Simon's fantastic core animation post here: http://simon.nureality.ca/?p=161 I thought I'd give it a go and see what horrible graphics...

Monotouch for Free? by Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR)

You may have noticed that Novell released a way of creating native iPhone applications with C# and potentially any other .Net language with Monotouch , only to find out that it's $399 for a single developer license. Fear not, last night Novell released...

MVC Storefront by Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR)

Twitter reference... Last night I finished watching the MVC Storefront videos; Since April 2008, Rob Conery has been putting together example videos of building a real world ASP.NET MVC app called the MVC Storefront. Through these videos there have been...

Oxite - The ASP.NET MVC CMS by Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR)

The guys over at Channel 9 have created the first blogging engine/content management system (CMS) based on the open source ASP.NET MVC framework. It's named Oxite and is avaliable to download now (in a Alpha version) on the Codeplex website . The first...

WebForm Gripe - Getting LinkButton to work without Javascript. by Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR)

WebForms is a sort of love/hate thing for me. There are some things I love about WebForms and then there's quite a few things that really cause me a lot of pain. Sadly, the ones that cause me a lot of pain are the ones that stand out. I might turn these into a little series - depending on how many of these gripes show up and how many I can remember! Most of these gripes are probably me just not understanding WebForms correctly, I'm willing to learn so any pointers in the right direction would be good. The first one that I'm going to write about is the LinkButton control. For the most part it's a nice control, which allows a method to be called when a normal anchor link has been clicked. The problem occurs when the method is only called via a Javascript PostBack method in the href attribute. What this does is stop people who do not have Javascript running on their browser (for whatever reason that may be) from using the site. ...

First look at Monorail.. by Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR)

I might be behind the times a little bit but for various different reasons I have delved back into the world of MVC for ASP.NET with Monorail - an open source framework which runs on top of C# and ASP.NET....