UITableView and SQLite Using Monotouch

In this article I will present a sample application that uses UITableView and SQLite to display data stored in a SQLite database. This application will log and display in a UITableView blood pressure samples created by the user. It will store the date and time, the systolic and diastolic values and the pulses per minutes. This is a port of the application created in this article.

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iPhone TableView Control and Monotouch

In this article I explore the Monotouch development experience and port the application written in this blog post. I will show in detail the development of such application and compare the development experience from a .Net c# developer point of view (see About Me).

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Creating a schema and parser in 5 minutes

In this short article I will demonstrate how to create a schema and a parser object for an existing xml file in 5 minutes.

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Loading and Unloading .Net assemblies

Two of the most common design patterns used for application extension are scripting and a plugin or adding framework. In this article I will explore the latter. PlugIn interfaces enables third party developers to extend your applications and in some instances create a new market place. Most plugin frameworks have the option to load plugins at runtime and on demand. This is great but sometimes it is necessary to unload the plugin for various reasons. The reasons an application may need to unload plugins are the following: the plugin is consuming to many resources or has not been invoked within some specified time. Loading an assembly in .Net is very easy to do and for the most part does not require much complexity in your plugin design but unloading a .Net assembly raises the complexity of your plugin design.

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UITableView and Core Data

In this article I will present a sample application that uses UITableView and core data to display data stored in a SQLite database. This application will log and display in a UITableView, blood pressure samples created by the user. It will store the date and time, the systolic and diastolic values and the pulses per minutes. The following images show the data collection and the main tableView screens.

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