Probably one of the things that worried me the most about moving from C# to Objective-C was having to manually manage memory for myself. For years I was spoiled by .NET's automatic Garbage Collector. Now, not only would i be responsible for managing memory directly, but it'd also be on a device that had much less memory than a PC. 

Have you had that same thought? Well, today I'm going to show you that managing…

In C#, namespaces essentially serve 2 specific purposes: 

1. Avoid naming collisions
2. Inform a class of objects that are available. 

Lets take a look at the latter first: 

Using vs Import

C#

Objective-C

As you can see, Objective-C does…

In today’s post I’m going to show you some basic reflection in Objective-C. To start off, lets take a look at probably the most common use case for reflection:

Finding the type of an object

As you can see, in Objective-C we use the keyword “Class” instead of Type. Also we’re accessing a static method off of the class as opposed…

Interfaces do exist in Objective-C, they just aren’t called interfaces. In fact, if you read my last post on Classes, you probably noticed that in the header file a class was defined as:

@interface MyClass : NSObject

@end

Hmm… if I was coming directly from C# and knew nothing about Obj-C, i’d assume thats the same as .Net interface.  So whats going on above? And whats the equivalent of a C# interface…

C# to Obj-C: Part 3 – Classes

Today we'll continue our exploration into objective-c by looking at another common data type that you'll use heavily but has a slightly different syntax than C#: Arrays. 

Before we dive right it in its worth noting that the goal of these posts is to be a reference/tutorial tool that will help a developer familiar with programming in C#, get up and running in objective-c in very little time. Enjoy!

Arrays

When…

My background was originally C# where i worked on a variety of platforms such as ASP.Net, Silverlight, WPF, etc..  So after spending 6+ years working mainly in C#, I was both excited and hesitant to take a look at Objective-C. The first few months i spent a lot of time switching back and forth between Google and XCode(the IDE for iOS), as i familiarized myself with the syntax and API's of this "foreign" language. And although…

If you've ever used the iOS Netflix app, you've seen their opening screen. It's a list of sections and each section has a horizontal scrolling list of movies and tv shows. In my opinion this is a really neat UI, so today i'm going to ...

As this is my first post, before I begin, let me introduce myself. My name is Steve Zaharuk (SteveZ) and I've been working for Infragistics since 2004. I've worked on a lot of different platforms since I first started here including ASP.Net, Silverlight, WPF and now iOS, where I'm the Product Architect. 

You can follow me on twitter at: @codebystevez

In this blog I plan on showing your the true power of …