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Does anybody know where I could find WinForms controls that mimic those on the iPhone? I am interested in doing some iPhone prototyping using Visual Studio and it would be handy if I could make the controls look like the native iPhone controls.
I know that I could just use Interface Builder on a Mac, but I do not want to do this. I just want to play around with various ideas and I will be much faster in Visual Studio.
I’ve had a look around for windows forms iPhone controls for mocking and positioning items and couldn’t find any. However it’s quite easy to do yourself with a few screenshots from the iPhone Simulator. Below is what I’ve done – I’ll update with a download link to the project a bit later.
As mentioned Apple probably won’t like, nor let you release a product using their UI style. However for mocking there is nothing to stop you doing it in Visual Studio – they still get their $99 and appstore cut.
I use Visual Studio as I do XIB-less Monotouch development in it, and want to avoid switching back and forth. For XIB-less apps, designing with interface Builder isn’t much faster in my view – but that’s a Monotouch-centric viewpoint.