Can someone confirm that now in version 4.1 a full process from developing to compilation to signing and eventually to app store can be made without a mac ? purely on windows ?
As far as I understand there is now a sign tool for windows ?
This is BIG NEWS ! why isn't it on front page ?! as far as I understand there is no such thing to be found anywhere else !
Is this tool bound to Airplay SDK or can it be used separately for other SDK like Monotouch, Dragonfire, Appcelerator ?
Yes. I just did yesterday, and I don't own a Mac. I signed up for the iPhone dev program last week ($99). Yesterday I followed the instructions on this site to create the certs from Apple and copy to my airplay dir. I built the sample apps included in the airplay SDK with Visual Studio 2008 (make sure you select an ARM build). I then ran the airplay deploy tool. Selected the project, selected iPhone deployment, did not enter any provisioning info and clicked deploy, which created the ipa file. To deploy to my iPod Touch, I had to connect it to iTunes. Before doing anything, though, I had to drag my mobileprovision file (created on Apples site) onto my device. I verified this from my device by going to Settings | General. You'll see a Profile item listed on this page with the name of your mobileprovision file. From there, I was able to deploy many of the samples to my device by dragging the ipa file to applications in iTunes and then syncing.
thx,
John