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A long‑awaited milestone is finally real: generics are supported in .NET nanoFramework, and the public preview starts today! 🥳 This post is intentionally more than an announcement. It’s a behind-the-scenes tour of what it actually took to get here: the metadata and tooling work, the runtime and type system changes, and the many “small” edge … Continue reading Hello, <T>here: generics are here for nanoFramework
In honor of IoT Day, we want to congratulate the community and shine a spotlight on how .NET nanoFramework is enabling developers and decision-makers to build powerful IoT solutions with ease.
At .NET nanoFramework, security is always a top priority. We're constantly working to ensure your embedded applications are not only powerful but also secure against the latest threats. That's why we're thrilled to announce that we've migrated to Mbed TLS v3.6, the latest LTS branch of this essential security library. This upgrade brings several significant … Continue reading .NET nanoFramework: TLS 1.3 Available – Security First!
We are thrilled to announce a series of significant improvements to the System.IO.FileSystem in .NET nanoFramework, designed to enhance your development experience and broaden the scope of your projects. These updates bring more power, flexibility, and efficiency to your fingertips, allowing you to push the boundaries of what you can achieve with the .NET nanoFramework. … Continue reading Major enhancements in System.IO.FileSystem for .NET nanoFramework
We are expanding (again) the list of hardware platforms on which .NET nanoFramework can run. We are also excited to announce a new supported RTOS. Ladies and gentlemen please welcome Silicon Labs Giant Gecko S1, running .NET nanoFramework on top of Azure RTOS ThreadX. This announcement is even more important to the project, because all … Continue reading Welcome Silabs Giant Gecko!
Any developer working with ESP32 has most likely came across with one of those infamous “Guru Meditation Error” messages when the execution crashes. Here's a blog post from José Simões on how to decode these and how to use a handy VS Code Task to accomplish this.
Today we're very proud to announce that the very 1st device running .NET nanoFramework has achieve the status of Azure Certified Device and is also certified for IoT Plug and Play! That’s the PalThree board from Orgpal. PalThree features an STM32F7, with external RAM and flash storage and packs a lot of features in a … Continue reading PalThree board becomes Azure Certified Device
Keeping a great build system for .NET nanoFramework firmware is something that is at the top of our concerns since the project foundation. One of the reasons for this is that it decreases the friction for anyone that wants to build it locally. Doesn’t matter the reason. It could be because they want to experiment … Continue reading Build updated to CMake Presets
As part of our continued effort to provide quality libraries and reduce, as much as possible, any friction on consuming those libraries, we are announcing a major change in our release strategy: as of today, only stable versions of the libraries and firmware packages will be published. We’re seeing a clear maturity on all .NET … Continue reading Updates in release strategy
Network connectivity has been given a high priority since the early days of nanoFramework. Despite of that, there is one aspect that we’ve acknowledged as needing improvements: managing network connectivity. Sometime last year, a first step was made to fix that with the release of the NetworkHelper library. For the first time ever, it was … Continue reading Network Helper to the rescue!