Selecting right tools for iphone app dev

I have been surfing the we开发者_如何转开发b to find the best to develop small iphone app on WINDOWS XP SP3.

Question :- Is it possible to develop a simple iphone application, that connects to MSSQL database gets the data and displays in iphone app.

Can anybody please suggest the right tools to select..

Thanks a lot for suggestions..

You need a Mac for serious App-Development.

The only other way I see is to write an iPhone-optimized web-application, that should be fairly easy.

Unfortunately, you won't be able to do any iPhone development on that Windows machine, as you need Xcode to start developing projects. This only runs on Mac OS.

For a good discussion of iPhone development requirements, try this article: only the first three are really necessary, of course.