.NET nanoFramework Blog

Improvements on build system

The build system for all (preview) target images have just been updated to reduce complexity and aid interoperability. These changes are particularly relevant for those interested in local builds and debugging of the interpreter. Until this change, the following applied: The CD-CI pipeline (based on Azure Pipelines) was self-contained and completely autonomous.Local builds relied on … Continue reading Improvements on build system

Custom attributes with constructor

Yes, you read that correctly! nanoFramework just got support for these. You can now have custom attributes with a constructor and access the value on the constructor. Let's see some code to illustrate this. Consider these two classes defining attributes. public class AuthorAttribute : Attribute { private readonly string _author; public string Author => _author; … Continue reading Custom attributes with constructor

New preview feeds for nanoFramework!

Until now nanoFramework has been using MyGet as its NuGet feed provider to host preview and test packages. MyGet is a decent provider but only offers 100MB storage on their free trier. Actually they offer 2GB to OSS projects (which is great) and for which we’ve applied, but it turns out that setting up the … Continue reading New preview feeds for nanoFramework!