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 …
Tech Tip: Error “405 Method Not Allowed” when performing a PUT on IIS7
Todays thought is a spectacularly obscure “feature” in Microsoft’s IIS 7.0 web server. Credit to the Mindtouch Developer portal team for this one. To fix the 405 error, go to the root of your site in IIS, find the Modules button and double click it. Scroll down to WebDAV and hit Remove on the right. Back out and open up …