Final release MonoTouch 1.0

    Novell company after a month and a half beta testing, which was announced on Habré, today released the final release of the development environment MonoTouch 1.0 . As you know, it allows you to adapt Windows-based applications to run on iPhone and iPod. That is, you can take ready-made programs and libraries written in .NET in programming languages ​​such as C # and recompile them for iPhone (see video ).

    Novell estimates that there are five million .NET programmers in the world. Now they can all write programs for iPhones. However, to use MonoTouch you need to have a Mac and buy a subscription to the iPhone SDK.



    MonoTouch 1.0 comes with all the necessary compilers, libraries and tools for integration with the Apple iPhone SDK, including the Xcode IDE for testing programs on the Apple iPhone Simulator.

    MonoTouch 1.0 was released as part of the Mono project, which helps port Windows applications to a wide variety of operating systems, including Linux and Mac OS.

    Novell’s vice president of development, Miguel de Icaza, says the reason for releasing such a development environment is quite obvious: C # and .NET alone are much more productive for writing programs than native Objective-C iPhones. In addition, a lot of code is written on the .NET platform, and many programs are great for iPhones, including enterprise systems.

    MonoTouch 1.0 with annual subscription to updatessold at prices ranging from $ 400 (personal edition) to $ 4000 (corporate).

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