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Simon says, MonoTouch meet UITableView

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MonoTouch has captivated me. It’s inspired me to start this blog and post about it and other things. I haven’t been this excited about an SDK in a long time (maybe Silverlight 2 RTW?, but besides that a long time).

Onto screencast #2! This time I show how to build an app with a UITableView. This is the most common control on all iPhone application interfaces, so I thought it would be a perfect candidate for the second installment.

It’s so elegant how easy it is to use .NET generic collections and populate a UITableView. I still kind of wish the RowsInSections() and GetCell() didn’t have to be in a seperate class. It would be nice to have options to do it this way, or simply handle the event handlers for these. Or just add the interface to any class.

Either way, it beats the heck out of writing Objective-C. So slick!

Let me know what you would like to see next, feel free to hit me up on Twitter, http://twitter.com/simongui

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4 Responses to “Simon says, MonoTouch meet UITableView”

  1. Ben Daniel 6 September 2009 at 10:53 am #

    Heya, can't play entire video. Cuts out half way through.

  2. Ali Shafai 9 September 2009 at 3:30 am #

    Thanks a lot. very useful. could you make a sequel to this one, making it show a new window (or view, I’m confused with iPhone terms here) when user taps on one of the items in the list?

    Cheers,
    Ali

  3. hack2root 14 September 2009 at 10:07 am #

    Does iPhone Developers might follows MVC / MVVM desighn pattern during development?

  4. kenokabe 18 September 2009 at 8:42 pm #

    Excellent Tutorial. Thanks a lot for this!


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