MonoTouch 1.2

New Features

• Debugger, works on Simulator and Device (using Wifi)
• C# binding generator for Objective-C Libraries.
• stdout/stderr are now redirected from the device to MonoDevelop.

MonoTouch API additions:

• UITableView now has a new property "Source" that allows a new UITableViewSource type to be assigned to it, it is a Model that implements both the UITableViewDelegate and the UITableViewDataSource, this should reduce clutter in existing code.    Brent has written a detailed update on using the UITableView with this new property.
• NSTimer.Dispose will now call Invalidate first, and then dispose the timer.
• UIActionSheet now can be initialized like this:
  • new UIActionSheet ("Title") { "Help", "Open in Browser", "Bookmark" }
• Added NSKeyedArchiver, NSKeyedUnarchiver.
• Added Encoder virtual method on NSObject

Mono Runtime API additions:

• Added System.Timers.Timer
• Added System.Threading.Semaphore
• Added System.Threading types to System.dll

API fixes

Updated OpenTK to r2350.  

• This fixes some function overloads so that they're usable
• Fixed AVAudioPlayer factory methods to be static.
• Fixed typo in UITableView.DidEndEditing
• Fixed typo in AVAudioRecorder.Pecord -> Record
• Fixed BadgeValue to allow null
• The helper class NSNotificationHandler is no longer public.
• Flagged a NSString.DataUsingEncoding as Obsolete, introduced instead Encode methods.

System.Data

A preview of the System.Data and SQLite for MonoTouch is now available.   

• Mono.Data.Sqlite.dll: unchanged.  Note that this binding is against SQLite 3.6, while iPhone has SQLite 3.0, so use of some functionality will result in EntryPointNotFoundExceptions.  Such missing functionality appears to include DataSet support.
• Mono.Data.Tds.dll: unchanged.
• System.Data.dll: Removes code-generation capabilities (System.Data.TypedDataSetGenerator), .config handling support, System.Data.Common.DbProviderFactories, System.Data.OleDb, System.Data.Odbc.
  • System.Data.SqlClient is present.
• System.Transactions.dll: unchanged.

Fixes

• Fixed crash using async socket operations
• Fixed i18n in mtouch : read the documentation
• iPhoneOSGameView.Run() will no longer truncate the timeout to have 1ms resolution.  It will now have 100ns resolution.