I have seen that there are so wonderful ways in Xcode to design your CoreData models - is there a way to make use of this and CoreData in general in MonoTouch 5? Any tutorials or examples?
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mmm, just curious what are you trying to achieve using CoreData?? – dalexsoto May 25 '12 at 01:43
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Get rid of direct usage of SQL commands. I am now using SQlite.net instead, but it is not as sophisticated as Core Data. – Krumelur May 25 '12 at 10:28
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Maybe is not the direct answer to your question but might be what you are looking for:
Sqlite-net is an open source, minimal library to allow .NET and Mono applications to store data in SQLite 3 databases. <-
the one you are using but for future referenceVici CoolStorage is a fully typed Object Relational Mapping library for .NET 3.5, Windows Phone, MonoTouch and Mono for Android
Catnap is a basic lightweight ORM for .NET. It uses the ADO.NET API. The project includes an adapter for Sqlite, and it is tested with System.Data.Sqlite and Mono.Data.Sqlite.
MonoTouch.SQLite An abstract UITableViewController to make displaying data from an SQLite table simpler.
Entify is entity framework for desktop and mobile applications. It aims to be stable and easy-to-use library that is effortless to deploy with any application. It has visual designer which allows developer to define application data model easily and quickly.
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entify, it has not been updated sinceApr 11, 2010so idk if it still works
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The only thing I could find about MonoTouch and CoreData was this blog post.
Hope this helps.
Alex
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Just an update: As of March '13, Vici seems to be no longer maintained, the documentation is inaccurate, and their forums and blog are gone. – Bobson Mar 20 '13 at 02:46
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Here is the documentation for CoreData in Mono.
This blog post is almost two years old, but the only example I could find of using CoreData in Mono.
Most relevant to your question, however, this bug/request is for integrating Xcode's tools into Mono. It doesn't seem to even be under development yet.
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You can also use /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/momc <source xcdatamodel> <absolute path to target> to generate the .momd. I'm still working on getting it integrated better - see this question.
