Can I do iPhone development with Windows (Visual Studio)
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Hi All, Someone told me, I can develop iPhone application with Visual Studio with Windows OS. I gone through some of the sites via Google, and came across lot many links, some says it is possible, and some suggest it is just rumor. Can you please tell me facts, and if its possible, what should I do to make it run on VS 2010. Thanks in advance
Happy Programming
I'm surprised no one has jumped on to this question yet. I'm very interested too, let's see what happens....
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Hi All, Someone told me, I can develop iPhone application with Visual Studio with Windows OS. I gone through some of the sites via Google, and came across lot many links, some says it is possible, and some suggest it is just rumor. Can you please tell me facts, and if its possible, what should I do to make it run on VS 2010. Thanks in advance
Happy Programming
You can - and a timely question it is too as Xamarin have just upgraded MonoTouch[^] for iOs 6.
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier
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You can - and a timely question it is too as Xamarin have just upgraded MonoTouch[^] for iOs 6.
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier
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Hi All, Someone told me, I can develop iPhone application with Visual Studio with Windows OS. I gone through some of the sites via Google, and came across lot many links, some says it is possible, and some suggest it is just rumor. Can you please tell me facts, and if its possible, what should I do to make it run on VS 2010. Thanks in advance
Happy Programming
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You can - and a timely question it is too as Xamarin have just upgraded MonoTouch[^] for iOs 6.
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier
You can do a great deal of the development within Visual Studio, but you still need a Mac with XCode to design the user interface and deploy the app to the device. Well, that's what I had to do. I'd be willing to pay a whole lot more if I could skip that painful step! That aside - it's amazing what Xamarin does. I felt so at home, and could become very productive in a very short space of time.
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Hi All, Someone told me, I can develop iPhone application with Visual Studio with Windows OS. I gone through some of the sites via Google, and came across lot many links, some says it is possible, and some suggest it is just rumor. Can you please tell me facts, and if its possible, what should I do to make it run on VS 2010. Thanks in advance
Happy Programming
PhoneGap is another option, recently aquired by Adobe... Mmmm. Danny
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Hi All, Someone told me, I can develop iPhone application with Visual Studio with Windows OS. I gone through some of the sites via Google, and came across lot many links, some says it is possible, and some suggest it is just rumor. Can you please tell me facts, and if its possible, what should I do to make it run on VS 2010. Thanks in advance
Happy Programming
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Hi All, Someone told me, I can develop iPhone application with Visual Studio with Windows OS. I gone through some of the sites via Google, and came across lot many links, some says it is possible, and some suggest it is just rumor. Can you please tell me facts, and if its possible, what should I do to make it run on VS 2010. Thanks in advance
Happy Programming
I was intensely curious to know.
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Hi All, Someone told me, I can develop iPhone application with Visual Studio with Windows OS. I gone through some of the sites via Google, and came across lot many links, some says it is possible, and some suggest it is just rumor. Can you please tell me facts, and if its possible, what should I do to make it run on VS 2010. Thanks in advance
Happy Programming
We looked into this in our office. Looking at Phonegap, Titanium, and Xamarin, they still all require a Mac OS. I know you need one to sign and submit to the store, but reading the product documentation I was under the impression that you couldn't even do the client dev without a Mac since you can't plug into the iOS SDK otherwise. If I'm mistaken, that would be great news.
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You can do a great deal of the development within Visual Studio, but you still need a Mac with XCode to design the user interface and deploy the app to the device. Well, that's what I had to do. I'd be willing to pay a whole lot more if I could skip that painful step! That aside - it's amazing what Xamarin does. I felt so at home, and could become very productive in a very short space of time.
I've found it best to do all the iPhone specific development on the MAC. MonoDevelop isn't as comprehensive as VS, but it's very useable. Xamarin have done a sound job on this and MonoTouch. The down side is OSX with all its irritating 'bouncy puppy', in-your-face skueomorphisms. I've found it best to avoid Xcode as much as possible. Xcode is probably the worst development environment I've ever come across, with a totally demented application model. Luckily you can do 99.9% of your app development without explicitly using Xcode as MonoTouch does the dirty work for you.
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We looked into this in our office. Looking at Phonegap, Titanium, and Xamarin, they still all require a Mac OS. I know you need one to sign and submit to the store, but reading the product documentation I was under the impression that you couldn't even do the client dev without a Mac since you can't plug into the iOS SDK otherwise. If I'm mistaken, that would be great news.
At first glance I think you are correct. But I'm going to give the Android dev for Windows are try for work stuff.
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Hi All, Someone told me, I can develop iPhone application with Visual Studio with Windows OS. I gone through some of the sites via Google, and came across lot many links, some says it is possible, and some suggest it is just rumor. Can you please tell me facts, and if its possible, what should I do to make it run on VS 2010. Thanks in advance
Happy Programming
This week, DevExpress announced the release of DXtreme Enterprise, its new tools suite for building apps for Windows 8, iOS and Android. All I need is VS2012 (the support for VS2010 will come fast) to target all platforms at once, even able to publish to an App Store. All of this without needing to buy any Android or Apple gadget. The tool has emulators for several devices. eWeek article[^] DevExpress DXtreme site[^]
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Hi All, Someone told me, I can develop iPhone application with Visual Studio with Windows OS. I gone through some of the sites via Google, and came across lot many links, some says it is possible, and some suggest it is just rumor. Can you please tell me facts, and if its possible, what should I do to make it run on VS 2010. Thanks in advance
Happy Programming
I went through the same dilemma recently. I won a contract to right a native app for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone, as well as a mobile web version. I owned neither a Mac nor an iOS device. After much research I decided to go with Xamarin's tools. The iOS app is complete and I'm happy with my decision. I don't remember the price but for about $750 I got both MonoTouch and Mono for Android. In particular, the MonoTouch.Dialog module makes it very quick to write apps that involve traversing data. Originally I tried to run OS X inside VirtualBox. It actually worked pretty well but it took me a while to get there, and accidentally allowing updates would break the system. Once I considered the time I had spent in this I broke down and bought a new Mac Mini. I also bought a used iPhone 3GS from GameStop. My advice is that if you write code for a living (as opposed to a hobbyist) and you want to write native apps without learning ObjectiveC, just pony up the bucks for a cheap Mac and MonoTouch. If you don't need the Mac when you're done, Apple fanboys are insane and will pay nearly full price for it used.
Yvan Rodrigues Red Cell Innovation Inc.
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Hi All, Someone told me, I can develop iPhone application with Visual Studio with Windows OS. I gone through some of the sites via Google, and came across lot many links, some says it is possible, and some suggest it is just rumor. Can you please tell me facts, and if its possible, what should I do to make it run on VS 2010. Thanks in advance
Happy Programming
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Hi All, Someone told me, I can develop iPhone application with Visual Studio with Windows OS. I gone through some of the sites via Google, and came across lot many links, some says it is possible, and some suggest it is just rumor. Can you please tell me facts, and if its possible, what should I do to make it run on VS 2010. Thanks in advance
Happy Programming
If you really want to do it from Windows and avoid the hassle of XCode and a Mac, check out NSBasic. (www.nsbasic.com). I'm just learning to use it myself but it has promise. Like the other solutions I've looked at it compiles to Java Script (I think), however you can also build a native app using the PhoneGap system which I haven't gotten into yet. I just wanted to learn to write some simple stuff for the iPhone for starters without having to invest in a Mac and all the other stuff needed. It costs $99 and they're constantly working on it. -cb
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Hi All, Someone told me, I can develop iPhone application with Visual Studio with Windows OS. I gone through some of the sites via Google, and came across lot many links, some says it is possible, and some suggest it is just rumor. Can you please tell me facts, and if its possible, what should I do to make it run on VS 2010. Thanks in advance
Happy Programming
You can use Marmalade SDK to develop c++ iphone apps with Visual Studio www.madewithmarmalade.com, also you can develop for android, playbook, bada, and more.
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Hi All, Someone told me, I can develop iPhone application with Visual Studio with Windows OS. I gone through some of the sites via Google, and came across lot many links, some says it is possible, and some suggest it is just rumor. Can you please tell me facts, and if its possible, what should I do to make it run on VS 2010. Thanks in advance
Happy Programming
What I would recommend depends on what kind of App you want to write. If you're looking to make a game I would highly recommend MonoGame. You can just develop using XNA and Visual Studio. Once you have the app/game near completion, its very easy to port the code to MonoTouch(Xamarin) with MonoGame and build for the App store. Being able to easily port to Android, Windows Phone and XBOX is a nice bonus as well. Mike.
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Hi All, Someone told me, I can develop iPhone application with Visual Studio with Windows OS. I gone through some of the sites via Google, and came across lot many links, some says it is possible, and some suggest it is just rumor. Can you please tell me facts, and if its possible, what should I do to make it run on VS 2010. Thanks in advance
Happy Programming
Check out Borland's Embarcadero's : RAD Studio[^]. Write once on Windows, then build and deploy native Win32, Win64, OSX and iOS applications. I bought it a few months ago and am now migrating all Win32/C++ development from VS to RAD Studio. I understand they have Android compliers in the pipeline too.
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Hi All, Someone told me, I can develop iPhone application with Visual Studio with Windows OS. I gone through some of the sites via Google, and came across lot many links, some says it is possible, and some suggest it is just rumor. Can you please tell me facts, and if its possible, what should I do to make it run on VS 2010. Thanks in advance
Happy Programming
If you want to develop Enterprise class iPhone apps use Xcode. You have alternatives like Xamarian but you will never get support from Apple. Beside this Apple is a closed environment so better to use XCode. Go with Xamarian only if have experience with C# Native Application Development/ XAML. Still you will require a Macbook to connect with Xamarin with Visual Studio
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Hi All, Someone told me, I can develop iPhone application with Visual Studio with Windows OS. I gone through some of the sites via Google, and came across lot many links, some says it is possible, and some suggest it is just rumor. Can you please tell me facts, and if its possible, what should I do to make it run on VS 2010. Thanks in advance
Happy Programming
Yes you can. http://www.pmbaty.com/iosbuildenv/[^] No Mac. No apple developer license. Develop in visual studio. But you need to jailbreak the device you want to run it on (or publish the app later via a mac to the app store if you want to sell it there). I did use this and have a little test app on my jailbroken device, just to get my feet wet in iphone apps. It worked, for $0.