A quick tip today for Monotouch developers wanting to invoke the App Store’s review page from within their app; UIApplication.SharedApplication.OpenUrl (new NSUrl (“itms-apps://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewContentsUserReviews?type=Purple+Software&id=609326726”)); And that’s it. Change ‘id’ to the id of your application. Leave type=Purple+Software alone; this is *not* a company name; it’s a magic string that has to be set to exactly this value – Project Purple was …
Monotouch and Testing iOS Apps in Testflight
When developing iOS apps in monotouch, you can distribute beta versions to your testers. They get installed on your user’s iOS devices over the air, bypassing the app store. But getting monotouch apps to work correctly with testflight is quite an art. You will need to work in: Monotouch www.testflightapp.com The Apple iOS Developer Center XCode … all at the …
Installing Visual Basic 6.0 on Windows 7
If you have a legacy application written in Visual Basic 6.0, you will find it difficult to install Visual Basic 6.0 on recent versions of Windows (Vista, Windows 7, etc) to let you maintain/modify it. Here’s what you need to do to get going: – Get Visual Studio 6.0 (which contains Visual Basic 6.0) – Create an empty file, in …
Tech Tip: iOS App Development in Monotouch: Adding a Back Button to a DialogViewController
A quick and simple iOS programming tip today. If you create, for example, a settings screen using a DialogViewController, typically you will want a back button to the calling screen. Frustratingly, this doesn’t happen by default, and oddly, while there are many workarounds to this on the web, none mention this simple method: public partial class settings : DialogViewController { …