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Author Review and Production Editing are complete

Wallace B. McClure, February 2, 2012
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What book editing isn't better the second time around?  Like a dog returns to his vomit and the fool to his folly, the author must return to his writing.  And with the past week, my author...

Mapping and Location with Monotouch on DevProConnections web site

Wallace B. McClure, January 17, 2012
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My article on Mapping and Location with MonoTouch is now out and available on the DevProConnections web site.  Here's the intro to the article:Mobile phones are by definition, mobile. A couple of...

My Artilcle on the UITableView with MonoTouch and the iPhone/iOS is now online

Wallace B. McClure, January 12, 2012
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My article on the UITableView in the iPhone/iOS with MonoTouch is now available online. Hopefully it is of value to you. Article overview:Data is what makes applications go. It could be a Twitter ...

MonoGame - Write Once, Play Everywhere

MSDN: Coding4Fun, December 19, 2011
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Our dev world is a big place (Cpt. Obvious here again...). While we might like to stay inside our own little dev world, never leaving our platform of choice, with the rise of others, that might not vi...

My article on Creating a User Interface with Mono for Android

Wallace B. McClure, November 2, 2011
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There's no doubt about it: Smartphones based on the Android OS are hot. Currently, they're generating 550,000 activations per day. Their market share is at approximately 40 percent, and continuing t...

Training on MonoTouch for the iPhone and Mono for Android

Wallace B. McClure, October 24, 2011
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I'll be in Sandusky, OH on January 9th and 10th to provide two full days on MonoTouch for the iPhone and Mono for Android.  This training is open to the public.  Signups can be done through...

Charlotte .NET User Group - Mono for Android #monodroid

Wallace B. McClure, September 21, 2011
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 I'll be speaking at the Charlotte .NET User Group on September 27 (next week).   The subject will be Mono for Android.  Info on the talk:Tuesday, September 27, at 6:00 PM in the...

Mobile Software Development on Keyvan.TV - #monotouch #monodroid

Wallace B. McClure, August 30, 2011
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I was recently interviewed on Keyvan TV regarding mobile software development. We talked a lot about monotouch, mono for android, the general marketplace for mobile, and other assorted things.PS. On ...

Keyvan.TV Episode 2: Mobile Software Development with .NET

Keyvan Nayyeri, August 29, 2011
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After embarrassing myself in front of a camera for a short Pilot episode to introduce myself and Keyvan.TV (joking, basically), I negotiated with some prominent names on the Microsoft development co...

My thoughts on Google - Motorola in SDTimes

Wallace B. McClure, August 23, 2011
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Google - Motorola at SDTimes. Overall, I think this is positive. #monodroid...

InfoQ article on #Monotouch and Mono for Android #monodroid

Wallace B. McClure, August 1, 2011
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Over the past couple of weeks, I've been talking with InfoQ regarding Monotouch and Mono for Android (aka Monodroid). Here's the results of this interview, I hope you enjoy them. I talk about what I...

Baby NUI... Using the Kinect as a Baby Monitor

MSDN: Coding4Fun, August 1, 2011
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This project doesn't have code directly related, it uses a code sample that comes included in the SDK, but I thought it such an interesting low tech/high tech, idea sparking, project that you all migh...

Rckblick: .NET Open Space Sd 2011 in Karlsruhe

Roland Weigelt, July 20, 2011
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Am vergangenen Wochenende fand in Karlsruhe der .NET Open Space Sd 2011 statt, fr mich nach Leipzig 2009 und 2010 der insgesamt dritte Open Space. Wer mit dem Begriff nichts anfangen kann: Das Konzep...

Status of Monotouch and Mono for Android #monotouch #monodroid

Wallace B. McClure, July 19, 2011
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It looks like Xamarin is now the official stewards (once again) of Mono, Monotouch, Mono for Android, Visual Studio Tools for Mono and associated Mono tools.  This is really good news for us i...

Getting Mono compiler output in a web application using StreamReportPrinter

JonGalloway.ToString(), June 2, 2011
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I've been continuing my experiment with Mono's compiler as a service in an ASP.NET MVC application and making pretty good progress. One of the difficulties I ran into along the way was in troubleshoot...

Dynamic ASP.NET MVC 3 models using Monos Compiler as a Service

JonGalloway.ToString(), May 27, 2011
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I had an idea for an interactive MVC sample which will let you see the scaffolded editor and display for a model. I thought about a few ways to do this, the first being Monos compiler as a service. So...

Monopolytics: Porting the .NET framework

Simple Talk, May 20, 2011
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.NET was originally conceived as a portable framework that would run on any number of platforms. Microsoft has gradually diminished their ambitions for .NET and Silverlight, but as long as Mono and Mo...

What do we do now? "It's over man, Wormer dropped the big one" - #MonoTouch and #MonoDroid

Wallace B. McClure, May 18, 2011
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Original post. As you likely know, Mono, Monotouch, and Mono for Android are in limbo right now. Bluto: Hey! What's all this laying around stuff? Why are you all still laying around here for? Stork...

All Technology roadmaps remain..........except for the ones that we won't tell you about

Wallace B. McClure, May 17, 2011
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Original post. By now, its public knowledge that the Mono team has been fired by Attachmate. I know its been rumor for a couple of weeks, but I got info saying it was true. I think that this is a poor...

Mono Development 101: Build Linux Desktop Apps with .NET

DevX: .NET Feed, May 12, 2011
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Mono and the MonoDevelop IDE let you build Linux desktop applications using the .NET Framework. Find out how an open source guy with minimal .NET experience did it....

Talking Mobile on Cloud Plumbing - iPhone, Android, MonoTouch, and Mono for Android

Wallace B. McClure, May 9, 2011
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I was interviewed by Ryan Parsley last week regarding Mobile Computing with iPhone and Android using MonoTouch and Mono for Android. Hopefully, you enjoy it....

Another one is "In the books" - Professional Mono for Android is now AR complete

Wallace B. McClure, May 4, 2011
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And with the upload to my editor at Wiley/Wrox, the book known as "Professional Android Programming with Mono for Android and .NET/C#" is now Author Review Complete, barring any slip ups on my part...

30 Projects and Counting Will be at Open Source Fest at MIX11

JohnPapa.net, April 27, 2011
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  In the 2 weeks since we announced Open Source Fest at MIX11, we have had over 30 open source project leaders register to present their projects!  You can also hear more about it on Cha...

Mono for Android Interview with Michael Desmond of Visual Studio Magazine

Wallace B. McClure, April 7, 2011
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I was honored to be interviewed by Michael Desmond of Visual Studio Magazine regarding the release of Mono for Android 1.0.  The interview was done this morning and he already has it up on their ...

Turn-By-Turn Driving Directions in Android with Mono for Android (MonoDroid)

Wallace B. McClure, March 30, 2011
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I needed to open some turn-by-turn directions in Android.  I did the following with Mono for Android, and this code worked:            ...

My article on iPhone & iPad Programming for .NET/C# Developers with MonoTouch has been published

Wallace B. McClure, March 29, 2011
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My article on iPhone & iPad Programming for .NET/C# Developers with MonoTouch has been published in the April, 2011 issue of DevPro Connections.  I hope you enjoy it....

ASP.NET OO SessionWrapper - As an integral part of the objects them self.

The Code Project Latest Articles, March 14, 2011
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An ASP.NET OO Session Wrapper baked into the objects themselves, instead of a monolithic wrapper containing all objects to persist....

30 Projects and Counting Will be at Open Source Fest at MIX11

JohnPapa.net, March 8, 2011
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In the 2 weeks since we announced Open Source Fest at MIX11, we have had over 30 open source project leaders register to present their projects!  What? Open Source Fest When? Monday, April ...

Easy to (mis)use API

Poupous blog, March 4, 2011
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Here's another take at reducing string allocations inside Gendarmeusing the newLog Profiler.This time I focused on a very helpful, but easy to abuse, API: StreamReader.ReadLine. Similar methods suffer...

The Full Price of FullName

Poupous blog, March 1, 2011
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Everyone using, even a small part of, Cecilknows it's amazing.Now there can be some inconveniants to use part of something - because the other parts cannot (or rarely) be totally ignored.In Gendarme's...

Gendarme 2.10 released!

Poupous blog, February 21, 2011
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Gendarme2.10 was releasedalong withMono 2.10.Win32 and ZIPped binaries packages are available on githubwhile Linux packages (mono-tools) are available from Monoand, eventually, from theopensuse build ...

Passing values between Activities using MonoDroid

Wallace B. McClure, February 8, 2011
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Been doing some work in MonoDroid and found that I needed to pass a user entered value from on Activity to another Activity in MonoDroid.  Here's how I did it. In my sending Activity, I need to...

iPhone Programming with MonoTouch article in DevConnections Magazine - April, 2011

Wallace B. McClure, February 7, 2011
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As an FYI, my article on iPhone Programming with MonoTouch for DevConnections magazine has been submitted and edited.  I'm really excited about this.  It will coincide with my presentation...

MonoDroid Article in Visual Studio Magazine

Wallace B. McClure, February 2, 2011
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The February edition of Visual Studio magazine is now online.  In it, my article regarding MonoDroid, the implementation of C# and .NET for Android devices, is online.  I can't thank Michael...

MonoDroid Preview 11 Logging Changes

Wallace B. McClure, January 28, 2011
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With the latest MonoDroid Preview, the new logging functionality is: Android.Util.Log.Debug("some identifier", "some message");...

ASP.NET Podcast Show #149 - MonoDroid Development on the Apple Macintosh OSX

Wallace B. McClure, January 27, 2011
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Given that I have a cast on my arm, I installed the MonoDroid Development Framework for Apple Macs today.  I walked through it and found that things are pretty much the same as with the MonoDroid...

ASP.NET Podcast Show #149 - MonoDroid Development on the Apple Macintosh OSX

ASP.NET Podcast, January 27, 2011
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Given that I have a cast on my arm, I installed the MonoDroid Development Framework for Apple Macs today.  I walked through it and found that things are pretty much the same as with the MonoDroid...

MonoDroid on the Mac

Wallace B. McClure, January 26, 2011
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 I finally decided to test out the new MonoDroid on Mac preview.  It works, and it works almost exactly like MonoDroid on Visual Studio 2010.  Here are some screen shots:Creating a pr...

Gendarme ♥ Cecil/Light

Poupous blog, January 24, 2011
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It's been a while since I published some benchmark numberson Gendarme.Now with 2.10there was a huge change by using the shiny new Cecil(aka cecil/light) library from the ever amazingJB Evain.So clearl...

Bundle identifier on iOS with MonoTouch

Wallace B. McClure, January 23, 2011
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So, I found a couple of issues in developing with MonoTouch that I need to be aware of.  These are:Spaces.  Don't have spaces in the project name.  Spaces are bad.  I've heard th...

MonoDroid Article in Visual Studio Magazine - February, 2011 Edition (hopefully)

Wallace B. McClure, January 22, 2011
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Sweet, I found out back in early December that an intro article that I wrote regarding MonoDroid will be a "featured article" in Visual Studio Magazine.  I have no idea what "featured articl...

Logging errors with MonoDroid and Android

Wallace B. McClure, January 21, 2011
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Error logging, its such a simple concept.  When an error occurs, store some kind of information about the error.  For some reason, we don't seem to do lots of it.  Why?  Well, it...

MonoDroid is publically available

Wallace B. McClure, January 20, 2011
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The ability to program Android devices in C# using many of the libraries that you are already familiar with is rather cool.  You may/not have heard about MonoDroid, which is an implementation of ...

Writing to the UI with MonoDroid using RunOnUIThread

Wallace B. McClure, January 17, 2011
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I've been pulling my hair out over the past day or so trying to update the UI in my test app.  I was having problem after problem.  I finally got down to my base problem.  I could not...

Mobile Connections in Las Vegas April 17-21

Wallace B. McClure, January 13, 2011
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I'll be speaking at Mobile Connections in Las Vegas.  The event is April 17-21.  The event is a cross platform mobile event.  There will be sessions on iOS, Android, WP7, Blackberry, ...

MonoDroid Preview

K. Scott Allen, January 11, 2011
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MonoDroid allows you to write Android applications using C# and Visual Studio. Compare the code in the last post to the following: [Activity(Label = "My Activity", MainLauncher = true)] public cl...

Mono 2.8.2 Released: Important Security Fix

Mono Project News, January 7, 2011
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We have just released Mono 2.8.2, it contains an important security fix for users of ASP.NET. We strongly advise every Mono 2.8.xx user to upgrade to Mono 2.8.2 if they host web applications with it. ...

Professional Android Programming with MonoDroid and .NET/C#

Wallace B. McClure, January 5, 2011
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Professional Android Programming with MonoDroid and .NET/C# is now listed on Amazon.com and Wiley/Wrox.  Here's a little bit about our book. Professional Android Programming with MonoDroid&n...

Google Code In - Week 6

Poupous blog, January 3, 2011
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Happy New Year 2011! I'm officially back to work this morning but Google Code Indid not really stop. Slower than usual but that was expected :-).Mono(registred melange user) totals for the 6th week ar...

Google Code In - Week 5

Poupous blog, December 27, 2010
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Merry xmas :-) Things have slowed in the past (5th) week ofGoogle Code In. Totals for Mono (registred melange users) are:41 tasks were completed, +1 this week0 tasks are currently claimed / worked on,...