In the WWDC video “Session 309 – Introducing Interface Builder Storyboarding” the speaker adds a table view controller and creates a cell in IB that can be directly linked to outlets in the app (at about 13:30 in the video).
Can this be done without story boards and if so, how to do it?
You can create a nib file with just a table cell in it, set the class to a custom UITableViewCell subclass, and link any cell subviews to outlets in the class.