Use CoreData in MonoTouch?

Question

I have seen that there are so wonderful ways in Xcode to design your CoreData models - is there a way to make use of this and CoreData in general in MonoTouch 5? Any tutorials or examples?

Answer 1

Here is the documentation for CoreData in Mono.

This blog post is almost two years old, but the only example I could find of using CoreData in Mono.

Most relevant to your question, however, this bug/request is for integrating Xcode's tools into Mono. It doesn't seem to even be under development yet.

Edit: You can also use /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/momc <source xcdatamodel> <absolute path to target> to generate the .momd. I'm still working on getting it integrated better - see this question.

Answer 2

Maybe is not the direct answer to your question but might be what you are looking for:

• Sqlite-net is an open source, minimal library to allow .NET and Mono applications to store data in SQLite 3 databases. <- the one you are using but for future reference

• Vici CoolStorage is a fully typed Object Relational Mapping library for .NET 3.5, Windows Phone, MonoTouch and Mono for Android

• Catnap is a basic lightweight ORM for .NET. It uses the ADO.NET API. The project includes an adapter for Sqlite, and it is tested with System.Data.Sqlite and Mono.Data.Sqlite.

• MonoTouch.SQLite An abstract UITableViewController to make displaying data from an SQLite table simpler.

• Entify is entity framework for desktop and mobile applications. It aims to be stable and easy-to-use library that is effortless to deploy with any application. It has visual designer which allows developer to define application data model easily and quickly.

  • Just a side note on entify, it has not been updated since Apr 11, 2010 so idk if it still works

The only thing I could find about MonoTouch and CoreData was this blog post.

Hope this helps.

Alex