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Yes. But you can sign up for a virtual Mac. I just started doing the Apple side of Xamarin. I use a Mac mini. You get one on Amazon for a reasonable price. The provisioning for Apple is arduous. If you need help reply back and I can send you the sequence that worked for me. You do need an Apple ID. Good luck.
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I use a Mac Mini at the office for Xamarin development, but sometimes I like to play with stuff at home so I installed a Hackintosh VM that works fine with Xamarin.
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bargz wrote: Hackintosh VM that works fine with Xamarin
 Thanks for this! I'll keep this as an option then. 
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I got a Mac Mini 2012 for this purpose. Used but works fine with the latest Mac OS. AND...You can put 16 GB of RAM in it! Not quite as powerful as the new ones but much, much more affordable!
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Device identification is not a trivial task, unless you ask for login and password on start also don't use the Advertising Identifier for that purpose, it will get you app banned on iTunes.
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I've actually come up with a solution that might keep me from having to mess with the iOS development at all. I figured out how to pin a url (with an encoded device name) to the iPad home screen. They can go through a login the first time, click on their device name and save the bookmark...it even creates a nice little icon for it!
The only problem I see is that button clicks in the Safari browser are slow...much slower than through IE. I may try another browser, but for now, this seems to work fine!
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You know, if you're not married to the Microsoft development stack you might consider checking out a product called NSBasic. (www.nsbasic.com). They have a product with a nice IDE that emits javascript code that will run on just about any device out there. It's not expensive, either. All you need is a Windows machine (or even a Mac if that's your flavor) to run it. I have produced a few simple apps with it that were easy to load on the machines. I think you can even produce App Store deliverables with it.
Check it out ... it might be what yer after.
-CM
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I have a set of apps based on a Web API. One is Android, the other is Objective-C and Swift on iOS, but they are already old and needed a bit of rewriting. The advertising for Xamarin looked good, so I installed it and gave it a shot. First off, Xamarin needs a dedicated UI project for each platform, although you can share code in a common project. No help, most of the code is in the UI already. Next, I noticed a file for a storyboard in the iOS project in the sample set of Xamarin projects. When I tried to open it in Visual Studio, it said that it could not, because it needed a connection to an iOS server. Game over. Xamarin is almost worthless and false advertising. My boss dug out an old Apple Mac and connected it to the network. It is possible to run a bootlegged iOS in a virtual machine, but you still need Apple hardware to sign and submit the app. I did for six months work on an Apple virtual machine supplied by a service run on Apple hardware. The cost was reasonable, but it frequently crashed.
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Do Amoebas have problems with asexual harassment?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yes, and it leads to much divisiveness.
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You may find that opinions are divided... There is nuclear answer! 
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And when they go public, do they post cellfies?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Boom tish!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The good news is that if they go to prison for it they don't need to worry about sharing because they're all single cells.
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well as they started from 1 amoeba and divided who is the victim?
btw: for the pedanticists: amoebae or amoebaes
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I had to actually work while everyone else posted and distended to allow all the best words to be taken. Anyway, let's lift a glass of cheer - mitosis "To your health".
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No, but there's asexual harrassment when onehalf gropes the other half!
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I've been googling, but nothing really substantial comes up.
I'm looking for an intellegent tutorial that covers using SVG with HTML5. What I mean by intelligent is, ok, cover the basics of SVG but what I'm more interested in are the "lessons learned" creating an interactive SVG (mouse events, DOM manipulation, etc.) and "best practices." So far what I've found is basically warmed over regurgitation.
This is a start Interactivity – SVG 1.1 (Second Edition) but lacking examples and best practices.
This is another start Jenkov Tutorials but doesn't seem to cover events at all.
And please don't recommend PluralSight. I looked their offerings and it all seemed like beginner stuff. Really beginner.
SyncFusion has nothing.
I mean, hasn't someone written something that decently shows how to work with SVG in HTML/Javascript in the real world? Do I have to write this too??? 
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abmv wrote: Just a few I found that ....
Snazzy - thanks!
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Anything on YouTube? I see a bunch of hits on YouTube but would have no idea if that is what you are looking for.
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Slacker007 wrote: Anything on YouTube?
I forgot to mention, no videos! 
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Ok. I have Safari Online and I see a book "Using SVG with CSS3 and HTML5" O'Reilly ($32.49 - Amazon). Have you thought about going the "book" route? I know it is so retro to go that way, but....
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Thanks for the info. I think I may have found a solution that avoids using iOS altogether simply by running it straight from Safari on the iPads. (custom url pinned to the home screen, url has a device name encoded) 
