I know it's unrelated to .NET but I'm a Mac person, so I've
been really drawn in to the iPhone SDK. Am I the only one from
the Microsoft developer community? I've even started up a blog
and forum dedicated to the topic:
http://www.iphonedevsdk.com
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No U r not the only one.At least some of my colleagues
have started that in my office.
My only question was when will be microsoft take such
initiative to let some functionality for developers to
develop iphone application in Visualstudio with the
collaboration of MAC peoples.
Heyy,
I am a .NET developer working for a Microsoft partner in
Chicago. I am too excited about getting to code for the
iphone regardless of how much efforts I need to take to
learn a new platform. Anyways whats your recommendation
before touching the sdk. I am a complete newbie for
Objective C and Cocoa. Any beginner books you referred?
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Hey Chris, you're right, its awesome to see MS
developers interested in this new platform....but I
can't find one single resource out there specifically
for VS .NET developers wanting to learn
XCODE/Objective-C/Cocoa etc
A general high level similarities/differences would be a
great start.
thanks!
I am and head-up .NET /c# development efforts in
Chicago. I too am a MAC person in a PC world. I am
trying to learn the COCA/Objective-C frameworks. What a
departure from .NET....yikes. Look forward to reading
and contributing to the blog!
Thanks,
Steve
I thought Id chime in and say "meeee, too!"
I am a dot net dude who switched to using VM on a mac
this year (love that) and I'm completely obsessed with
iPhone sdk dev.
Unfortunately, Objective C is not the only stumbling
block I've encountered. Lack of documentation,
inaccurate tutorials, tutorials containing poor coding
practices and a general incompatibility between what I'm
reading and what I'm finding/seeing is making this the
hardest little project I've undertaken in years.
I fully expect to be "the iPhone sdk expert of the
south" before this is over.
I was a little to eager and confident in both myself and
Apple when I entered this arena. I am now humbled and
taking things one step at a time.
Rusty (vous)
I'm waiting for someone to create an SDK for Visual
Studio that can compile C# into Objective C/Cocoa
code...That would be awesome!
Don's right. Spread yourself too thin by trying to
create and support your mobile applications in two
different languages/platforms, and its a recepe for
disaster. I love Apple, but their lack of convergence is
frustrating.
can u please let em know what is better to choose?.net
or iphone developmetn?
Actually I am a .net developer but am offered to work in
iphone development.so i want to know is it wise to shift
the carier line from .net to iphone?and why?i also want
to know that what is the future prospects for iphone
developers?
to go a little off topic, I'm eagerly awaiting the full
blown release of windows mobile 7. With silverlight
integration. If done right, this should help us all get
on track to some easier phone app programming. I'm
banking on that right now! (call me lazy)
I thought Microsoft was going to address a way inside of
the Visual Studio during WWDC 2010. Can any comment
about this?I love windows but I would love to dev for
iPhone/iPad too :-)