Also, just to point out that your method (as is) wouldn’t work out with a table with multiple sections. You’d have to change viewForHeaderInSection to this

if (section == 0)
return [[appDelegate headerViewController] view];
else
return nil;

The better way to do it would be to just do the following on viewDidLoad
self.tableView.tableHeaderView = headerViewfromNIB;

My 2cents

I would appreciate any comments you could make on updating the UI to support this edit behavior.

@interface ContactStyleeViewController : UITableViewController {
IBOutlet UIView *headerView;
}

That way you wouldn’t have to use the delegate method and a separate controller just to get access to the header view?

Just a thought. I may be way off-base.

You need to be doing this from a higher level in the view hierarchy, I think. Here’s what I do. On my application delegate class, I declare a method that gets called from the table delegate’s didSelectRowAtIndexPath: method. Here’s the app delegate method:

- (void)thingWasSelected:(NSString *)thingName {
   [navController pushViewController:self.newViewController animated:YES];
}

And here’s the UITableViewDelegate method (note the cast to our concrete app delegate class):

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView
       didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {

   [((MyAppDelegate *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate])
     thingWasSelected:[self.dataSource objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]];
}

We could add a category to UIApplication to return our concrete with a header file like this:

// UIApplication+MyAppDelegate.h
// forward declaration
@class MyAppDelegate;

@interface UIApplication (MyAppDelegate)
- (MyAppDelegate *)concreteDelegate;
@end

And here’s the implementation file:

// UIApplication+MyAppDelegate.m
#import "UIApplication+MyAppDelegate.h"
#import "MyAppDelegate.h"

@implementation UIApplication (UIAppDelegate)

- (MyAppDelegate *)concreteDelegate {
   return (MyAppDelegate *)self;
}

@end

Then you just need to #import UIApplication+MyAppDelegate.h into the appropriate file and instead of the cast, do this:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] concreteDelegate];

(I’ve written most of this code away from XCode, so please be on the lookout for typos!)

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
James

I’ve tried: “[self.navigationController pushViewController:newViewController ];”

But it doesn’t work.