{"id":3823,"date":"2011-02-10T16:36:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T15:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3823-trying-out-monotouch-c-for-apples-iphone-and-ipad.html"},"modified":"2011-02-10T16:36:59","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T15:36:59","slug":"trying-out-monotouch-c-for-apples-iphone-and-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3823-trying-out-monotouch-c-for-apples-iphone-and-ipad.html","title":{"rendered":"Trying out MonoTouch &#8211; C# for Apple\u2019s iPhone and iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve posted an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itjoblog.co.uk\/2011\/02\/monotouch.html\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> on trying out <a href=\"http:\/\/monotouch.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">MonoTouch<\/a>, which builds on the open source Mono project to provide a means of developing apps for Apple\u2019s iOS using C# and the .NET Framework.<\/p>\n<p>It is easy to assume that since the .NET Framework is Microsoft\u2019s technology, using a non-Microsoft implementation is risky. Then again, Mono is open source; and the more usage it gets, the better it becomes. MonoTouch is an important development for the project, since it is a commercial project which might actually be making some money for Novell\/Attachmate. While it would be nice to get it for free, it is important that Mono makes business sense as well. MonoTouch has given the Mono project a significant boost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve posted an article on trying out MonoTouch, which builds on the open source Mono project to provide a means of developing apps for Apple\u2019s iOS using C# and the .NET Framework. It is easy to assume that since the .NET Framework is Microsoft\u2019s technology, using a non-Microsoft implementation is risky. Then again, Mono is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3823-trying-out-monotouch-c-for-apples-iphone-and-ipad.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trying out MonoTouch &#8211; C# for Apple\u2019s iPhone and iPad<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,55,57,67,80],"tags":[158,236,499,500,501,607],"class_list":["post-3823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net","category-microsoft","category-mono","category-professional","category-software-development","tag-apple","tag-c","tag-ios","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-mono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}