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Mix10 Open Call for Sessions

Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR) — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:28:00 GMT

Not too long ago, Microsoft released details on the Mix10 event coming up in Las Vegas during the middle of March. Already a few non-Microsoft sessions have been announced such as Miguel de Icaza's session on the Mono Project and Paul Dawson's session...(read more)

Great Fridays Xmas Monotouch App on the Appstore

Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:00:00 GMT

For our work Christmas Card this year, we decided to create a Xmas video for all to see (viewable here ). To go along with the video we decided to create a iPhone app. This was a great way to play around with Monotouch and get a nice example of a Monotouch...(read more)

Speaking at the 5th UgiALT.Net Conference on Monotouch

Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:10:00 GMT

Good evening! Just a quick note to say that I'm going to be speaking at the 5th Italian UgiALT.NET conference in Milan, Italy on Saturday 23rd January 2010. The conference will mainly be in Italian (apart from my session and maybe a few others) so that...(read more)

Custom loading screen on Monotouch

Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR) — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:48:00 GMT

I had a request from my previous post about the DoneDone app to give a little insight on how the loading screens were created. I finally got round to creating an example project which shows one way of creating this sort of effect. The way I created the...(read more)

Creating a FlipView with Monotouch

Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:37:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Converting a UIImage to a ByteArray in Monotouch

Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:59:00 GMT

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...(read more)

DoneDone Monotouch iPhone App Screencast

Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:47:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Gratuitous Graphics with CoreAnimation and MonoTouch

Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:02:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Monotouch for Free?

Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:55:00 GMT

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...(read more)

*chirp - believe the hype?

Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR) — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:53:00 GMT

Twitter reference: http://twitter.com/chrisntr/status/1162024673 & http://twitter.com/chrisntr/status/1162055645 *chirp is a WPF Twitter app which has seem to be getting quite a bit of good press from people I follow on Twitter. However; as nice as...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC RC1 Is Out!

Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR) — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:44:00 GMT

Twitter reference... After being in Beta for a month or two, the ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 1 is out and ready to download. Scott Guthrie put together a gigantic post on the features of this release - which heavily focuses on tooling support and bug...(read more)

MVC Storefront

Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR) — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:00:00 GMT

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...(read more)

DDD7 Grok Talk - Open Source and Microsoft

Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR) — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:05:00 GMT

This weekend I attended DDD7 , a free community conference held at the Microsoft Reading Campus. I presented a short Grok talk during the lunch hour on Open Source and Microsoft. Since the event didn't seem to have a internet connectivity, I used Dom...(read more)

Achieving Avoid Highways (Motorways) with Microsoft's Virtual Earth

Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR) — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:26:00 GMT

A common problem that many developers face when using the Microsoft Virtual Earth SDK is that out of the box, you cannot generate routes which avoid highways/motorways. This functionality is available on Google Maps but not via the Google Maps API. It...(read more)

WebForm Gripe - Getting LinkButton to work without Javascript.

Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR) — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:25:00 GMT

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. ...(read more)