Write iPhone apps using .NET

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Novell, the owner of mono project, has announced MonoTouch 1.0, a commercial SDK kit that allows developers to build iPhone apps using Microsoft’s .Net Framework.  At the moment, developers who wish to develop applications for iPhone has to use the Apple-designated C or Objective-C languages. The MonoTouch SDK uses Novell’s Mono runtime, allowing developers to utilize code and libraries written for .Net and programming languages like C#.

“What’s important here is that C# and .Net are considerably more productive development environments than the native iPhone language, which is Objective-C,” said Miguel de Icaza, vice president of the developer platform at Novell and the leader of the Mono project.  With MonoTouch, the Mono runtime provides such developer services as garbage collection, thread management, type safety, and Web services, de Icaza said.

The professional version of the SDK costs USD399, and the enterprise version costs USD999.

[via infoworld]