i want to make iphone/ipod touch apps and i have downloaded visual studio 2008 and am equipped with "c# .NET Illuminated" by ART GITTLEMAN an old textbook copyrighted in 2005 i picked up from a college where do i begin to learn how to make iphone apps and make any money at all from them i am running on windows xp and i am probably getting visual studio 2010 but my only previous scripting experience was in adobe flash cs4 where i learned about 5 scripts and made a maze game and made a character move
while awaiting reply i will be reading my "C# .NET Illuminated"
http://community.devexpress.com/blogs/ctodx/archive/2009/09/17/monotouch-writing-iphone-apps-in-c.aspx
i also read ^this^ hoping it would help me with what i have already if not just say so
in your answers dont leave out where do i begin learing the language and what do i need to publish apps
and if i need to completely get rid of visual studio or never use c# where can i learn cocoa...i read cocoa is the language iphones use and is similar to c and what can i use to write and compile cocoa apps
thanks
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goto http://developer.apple.com/iphone/index.action and signup. You must write with Apple's XCODE in order to make apps for iPhones. YOU MUST HAVE A MAC, PAY $50 and learn XCODE.
One alternative is the CSS/HTML5 http://www.phonegap.com/
answered one year ago by:
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C# can in fact be used to write apps for the iPhone, iPod and iPad but you have to use Novell's Mono compiler and a product of theirs called MonoTouch which you'd already identified in the link you posted.
Whilst Mono itself is free, MonoTouch isn't and you'll need to fork out upwards of $399 to get started.
Visual Studio and Microsoft's C# compiler are (apart from SilverLight) Windows-only and so can't be used for Apple stack development.
I've never heard of the book you're using and you might be better reading something more up to date such as this book from Herb Schildt.
answered one year ago by:
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i thank both the answerers but i've already decided to take a new direction with c#, i'm going to make indie games for the xbox 360 i already have gold mambership and xna connect's $100 fee paid and have executed one sprite display and sprite movement thx alot for the book recomendation btw