iPhone Gets .Net App Development 327
snydeq writes "Novell has announced MonoTouch 1.0, a commercial SDK that allows developers to build iPhone apps using Microsoft's .Net Framework instead of the Apple-designated C or Objective-C languages. The SDK leverages Novell's Mono runtime for running Windows apps on non-Windows systems, allowing developers to utilize code and libraries written for .Net and programming languages like C#. With MonoTouch, the Mono runtime provides such developer services as garbage collection, thread management, type safety, and Web services, said Mono leader Miguel de Icaza."
C++/CLI (Score:1, Funny)
Managed Extensions to C++ is old. .NET have C++/CLI now.
Newer versions of
C++/CLI is great for interop with legacy applications that will not interop via web services or COM. .Net class libraries I wrote in C#. In this c++/CLI library, I exported functions as C functions using the stdlib calling convention. This allowed a lot of legacy applications on Windows to interop with .net libraries.
I created a wrapper library in C++/CLI that wrapped
Re:Left fuckers (Score:3, Funny)