# re: Using Cordova and Visual Studio to build iOS Mobile Apps Hello! Well, this tutorial seems nice, but unfortunatly, I have a 404 every time I try to connect the remote agent on the mac.

It’s rumour time! Analyst Trip Chowdhry, with Global Equities Research, is claiming that Microsoft has been allotted seven minutes during Steve Jobs’ WWDC keynote speech. Supposedly, the Redmond giant will unveil that developers will be able to. As crazy as this sounds, this shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who can move beyond the outdated Apple vs.

Microsoft attitude. Apple is currently by the US authorities after Adobe filed a complaint regarding Apple’s restrictive iPhone development policies, i.e., only allowing development through its own tools. By also allowing people who use Visual Studio 2010 to write applications for the iPhone and the iPad, Apple basically takes much of the wind right out of Adobe’s sails. There’s an added benefit in there for Apple in that people who refused to develop for the iPhone platforms because they don’t want to buy a Mac will now be able to develop for the platform with their Windows machine. This will surely allow more people to develop for the iPhone, at little to no cost for Apple – Microsoft is most likely doing the work here. For Microsoft, it’s simply an opportunity to gain a presence in a market where it currently has none.

As anyone who is aware of the company’s history knows, Microsoft is a very practical company, and isn’t religious about any of its choices. It simply goes where the money is, and the iPhone platform is a market.

As simple as that. On top of that, while many people see the world as Apple vs. Microsoft, anyone with a slightly saner mind knows full well that the two companies are actually pretty good friends. These two giants mostly work around each other, and rarely compete directly. Their products mostly compliment each other instead of outright competing. For a recent confirmation, just look at how carefully Apple avoided talking about Windows Mobile when suing HTC – it was all Android. Of course, this most likely is nothing but a rumour (remember, analysts are bloggers in suits), but the idea itself isn’t particularly surprising.

As much as I’m personally not a fan of the vast majority of Microsoft products, I can’t rate Visual Studio highly enough. It’s simply a dream to program in. As much as I might often argue that many open source apps are on a par with Windows apps, when it comes to development, QT Creator, KDevelop, Eclipse and Netbeans (as great as they are) don’t even come close to VS. It’s just a pity most of my recent development requirements have forced me to move away from VS [edit] Actually, if anyone has any tips on cross compiling Linux C++ apps from VS (and would VS’s debugger still work?) then it wouldn’t be much effort for me to run XP from a VM.

Edited 2010-05-27 12:08 UTC. As much as I’m personally not a fan of the vast majority of Microsoft products, I can’t rate Visual Studio highly enough. It’s simply a dream to program in. I find VS a complete mess of functionality. To me Qt Creator is leanier and more eficient for coding. But then I also think Vim is well suited for any coding task.

Actually, if anyone has any tips on cross compiling Linux C++ apps from VS (and would VS’s debugger still work?) then it wouldn’t be much effort for me to run XP from a VM. If you want crossplatform applications, don’t you think you should start thinking about crossplatform toolkits and compilers? VS is for Windows, because Microsoft doesn’t support Linux, not because of a deficiency in VS. The best thing you have for C++ crossplatform GUI applications is Qt4 and whatever IDE you want, including Qt Creator. I find VS a complete mess of functionality.

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To me Qt Creator is leanier and more eficient for coding. But then I also think Vim is well suited for any coding task. QTCreator is Leaner, but not more efficient. It’s getting there though. As for Vim – I personally love it. I a end up doing great deal of my PHP development in it.

However I wouldn’t want to write a C++ application in it. Especially when there are IDEs out there that just make life easier. Don’t get me wrong, I am one of those developers that likes to “get his hands dirty”, but at the same time I don’t see the point of deliberately making life hard when I can produce the same quality of code but with less stress and/or quicker. If you want crossplatform applications, don’t you think you should start thinking about crossplatform toolkits and compilers? VS is for Windows, because Microsoft doesn’t support Linux, not because of a deficiency in VS. The best thing you have for C++ crossplatform GUI applications is Qt4 and whatever IDE you want, including Qt Creator. You misunderstand me.