[MonoTouch] Inherited UIViewController tip

[Rolf Bjarne Kvinge]

Hi,

This sounds very much like a bug in MonoDevelop, you shouldn't need to
unqualify attribute types. Can you file a bug in our
bugzilla.xamarin.com so that we can properly track and fix it?

Thanks,
Rolf

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 3:07 AM, competent_tech
<xamarinforums at competent.com> wrote:
> I just spent a good deal of time chasing down an issue with header files not
> being generated for xibs after upgrading to MD 2.8/MT 5.0 and wanted to
> share what worked for me in the hopes that it will save someone else some
> time and hair.
>
> Many of our views inherit from a hierarchy of base classes that ultimately
> inherit from UIViewController. After upgrading to MD 2.8/MT 5.0, I opened
> one of the views to make a change and discovered that the header file for
> xcode had not been generated.
>
> I played with various settings, added new views to confirm that the MD/XCode
> integration was working correctly, and finally changed the base class for
> the view back to UIViewController. As soon as I did this, the header file
> was generated.
>
> I then went and looked at the base classes and they were still registered
> correctly, but I did notice it was a more verbose registration statement
> than the new views that I had created: the existing classes were registered
> with the fullly qualified path to the attribute
> (Monotouch.Foundation.Register) whereas the new views included a using
> Montouch.Foundation statement and the Register attribute on its own.
>
> As soon as I changed the base classes to the Register attribute only, the
> header file was generated.
>
> So, if you are upgrading to MD 2.8/MT 5.0 and run into issues with the
> header files not being generated, try changing your
> Monotouch.Foundation.Register attributes to Register.
>
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