How to use custom UITableViewCell from Interface Builder?

Question

I want to be able to design my own UITableViewCell in IB. But I keep getting a null ref exception when trying to access the label I defined in IB.

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Answer 1

You can not reference any outlets until the Nib is loaded. There is a method that you can override that will tell you "Your NIB is loaded, you can now access the fields". Until that point, referencing those objects will always return null.