Leopard Guides: Cocoa
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2009-05-06 Binary Data Programming Guide for Cocoa (HTML) (PDF)
Corrected the code listing under Modifying Bytes to account for the null terminator on the strings.
 Minor Change
2009-05-06 Key-Value Observing Programming Guide (HTML) (PDF)
Clarified Core Data requirement in Registering Dependent Keys.
 Minor Change
2009-05-06 Predicate Programming Guide (HTML) (PDF)
Corrected a typographical error.
 Minor Change
2009-05-06 Stream Programming Guide for Cocoa (HTML) (PDF)
Added a missing comment to a code sample.
 Minor Change
2009-03-04 Core Data Programming Guide (HTML) (PDF)
Minor revision to accommodate new Getting Started document.
 Minor Change
2009-03-04 Core Data Snippets (HTML) (PDF)
New document that provides snippets of code that you can use when writing a program that uses Core Data.
 First Version
2009-03-04 Core Data Utility Tutorial (HTML) (PDF)
Updated title to better reflect purpose.
 Minor Change
2009-02-04 Archives and Serializations Programming Guide for Cocoa (HTML) (PDF)
Replaced instances of "/tmp" with NSTemporaryDirectory().
 Minor Change
2009-02-04 Collections Programming Topics for Cocoa (HTML) (PDF)
Corrected a code example showing indexOfObjectIdenticalTo:.
 Minor Change
2009-02-04 Key-Value Coding Programming Guide (HTML) (PDF)
Added substantial task information and sample code.
 Content Update
2009-02-04 NSPersistentDocument Core Data Tutorial (HTML) (PDF)
Updated description of editing the plist file.
 Minor Change
2009-02-04 NSPersistentDocument Core Data Tutorial for Mac OS X v10.4. (HTML) (PDF)
Re-release of Mac OS X v10.4 version of NSPersistentDocument Core Data Tutorial.
 First Version
2009-02-04 Tree-Based XML Programming Guide for Cocoa (HTML) (PDF)
Replaced use of deprecated method loadDataRepresentation:ofType: with readFromData:ofType:error:.
 Minor Change
2008-11-19 Property List Programming Guide (HTML) (PDF)
Combined Cocoa and Core Foundation documents on property lists and reorganized material. Added a "Quick Start" mini-tutorial and a chapter on programmatically creating property lists. Mentioned iPhone OS as a platform on which property lists are important.
 Content Update
2008-10-15 Data Formatting Programming Guide for Cocoa (HTML) (PDF)
Corrected typographical errors.
 Minor Change
2008-10-15 String Programming Guide for Cocoa (HTML) (PDF)
Added new aricle on character clusters; updated list of string format specifiers.
 Minor Change
2008-09-09 Event-Driven XML Programming Guide for Cocoa (HTML) (PDF)
Added note about introduction of namespace support in v10.4.
 Minor Change