Question

I’m using storyboards and table views with static content. Internally it seems as if the UITableViewController implicitly becomes the source of the UITableView.

If I now want to take influence on the static content, I will have to override methods of the table source. In ObjectiveC I can just place

-(NSString*)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView titleForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
    if (section == 0)
        return @"HELLO!";
    else {
        return [super tableView:tableView titleForHeaderInSection:section];
    }
}

in my controller and the method will be overridden. But in MonoTouch this does not work.
Please note that I do NOT want create a new instance of a delegate or a data source. With static cells, the controller is the source/delegate. In ObjectiveC this is done by making the controller implement the corresponding protocols.

Here is the question I asked related to this topic but now I’m stuck converting the solution to MonoTouch:

How to override tableView:titleForHeaderInSection: to adjust section headers of static UITableViews?

Answer 1

Found the solution in the great tutorials on Xamarin’s website: http://docs.xamarin.com/ios/tutorials/Events%2c_Protocols_and_Delegates

The “Export” attribute does the trick!

public partial class TestController : UITableViewController
    {
        public TestController (IntPtr handle) : base (handle)
        {

        }

        public override void ViewDidLoad ()
        {
            base.ViewDidLoad ();
        }

        [Export("tableView:titleForHeaderInSection:")]
        public string TitleForHeaderInSection(UITableView oTableView, int iSection)
        {
            return "TEST";
        }
    }