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iOS Development using MonoTouch Cookbook

By : Dimitris Tavlikos
Book Image

iOS Development using MonoTouch Cookbook

By: Dimitris Tavlikos

Overview of this book

<p>MonoTouch brings the amazing revenue opportunities of Apple’s billion dollar app store to C# and .NET developers. <br /><br />This cookbook leaves no stone unturned, providing you with practical recipes covering user interfaces, data management, multimedia , web services, and localization, right through to application deployment on the app store.<br /><br />Whatever the area of MonoTouch iOS development you need to know about, you will find a recipe for it in this cookbook. Minimum theory and maximum practical action defines this book. It is jam packed with recipes for interacting with the device hardware, like the GPS, compass and the accelerometer. Recipes for those all important real world issues such as designing the UI with the integrated designer introduced with Xcode 4. It is the essential cookbook for C# and .NET developers wanting to be part of the exciting and lucrative world of iOS development.</p>
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
iOS Development Using MonoTouch Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Inserting and updating data


In this recipe, we will learn how to write data to the database.

Getting ready

For this task, we will extend the project CreateSQLiteApp that we created in the previous task.

How to do it...

  1. Add two more buttons on the view.

  2. Inside the CreateSQLiteAppViewController class, create two methods that will connect to the database file using the code from the previous task. The difference here lies in the usage of the SqliteCommand object:

    using (SqliteCommand sqlCom = new SqliteCommand (sqlCon)){
      // INSERT statement
      sqlCom.CommandText = "INSERT INTO Customers (FirstName, LastName) VALUES (@firstName, @lastName)";
      sqlCom.Parameters.Add (new SqliteParameter ("@firstName", "John"));
      sqlCom.Parameters.Add (new SqliteParameter ("@lastName", "Smith"));
      //UPDATE statement
      //sqlCom.CommandText = "UPDATE Customers SET FirstName = 'James' WHERE LastName = @lastName";
      //sqlCom.Parameters.Add (new SqliteParameter ("@lastName", "Smith"));
      sqlCom.ExecuteNonQuery ();
    }

How...