http://www.kennydust.com/Content/icons/flame.ico http://www.kennydust.com/Content/icons/flame.png 2009-10-28T17:16:00 Thoughts from a C# Developer http://www.kennydust.com/site.aspx/tags/iphone/atom Oxite http://www.kennydust.com/site.aspx/Blog/Developing-iPhone-apps-in-C-and-NET 2009-10-28T21:53:49.737 2009-10-28T17:16:00 kennydust <p>Last Month, Novell became the first provider to offer a <a href="http://www.novell.com/news/press/novell-releases-first-solution-to-build-iphone-applications-using-c-and-microsoft-net-languages" target="_blank">solution</a> for writing iPhone apps in the C# .NET stack. Being a C# Microsoft .NET developer, I immediately became excited -- but then I started reading about it, and my excitement soon soured; their offering is called <a href="http://monotouch.net/" target="_blank">monotouch</a>, and it costs $399 for a basic license – yikes! and it requires a mac for development (boooo). Give me something I can use, please. </p> <p>There is an <a href="http://monotouch.net/DownloadTrial" target="_blank">evaluation version</a>, but it’s limited to development on an iPhone simulator though. Not sure on how many days you can “evaulate” the product for however.</p> <p>Prior to, iPhone app development was limited to complex c and Object-c on the mac, using&#160; <a href="http://developer.apple.com/iphone/" target="_blank">Apple’s iPhone SDK</a>. </p> <p><img src="http://mono-project.com/files/thumb/b/b4/180px-Monocatalog.png" alt="iPhone"/></p>