Just for sharing, i was working on a project that needs the iphone app to be connected to an asmx webservice. ASMX runs in windows, under .NET architecture. Of course, the best fix is to get a Windows machine. As a MAC user without a Windows PC, I have to figure out how to run a .NET webservice in my MAC so that i can test my iphone app’s webservice with my MACBOOK. Generally, there [...]

ZXing is an open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing library implemented in Java, with ports to other languages. In this tutorial, Im going to show you how to make a small modification to the library so that the QRCode reader can read from image as well instead of just camera. First of all, download the ZXing-1.7.zip. After you unzipped it, look for the folder ‘iphone’ -> ‘Barcodes’, this is the sample project we will be [...]

Base on the explanation in Apple Developer Documentation, delegation is a simple and powerful pattern in which one object in a program acts on behalf of, or in coordination with, another object. The delegating object keeps a reference to the other object—the delegate—and at the appropriate time sends a message to it. The message informs the delegate of an event that the delegating object is about to handle or has just handled. The delegate may [...]

Ever thought of how to import your excel data into iphone project? You can do it with CSV parser. CHCSVParser is an Objective-C parser for CSV files. It is very useful if you would like to import your data from excel file, you can save your excel to CSV format and import them into objective-c. The source can be downloaded from github here. To use this library, in your controller, you need to import the [...]

AsyncSocket is an asynchronous socket networking library for Cocoa. Using this library, I’ve created a client with is an iPhone app and the server (or remote host) which is a Mac app. The video below shows a demo of socket communication between the iPhone and Mac app. You may download the source code from my github.