Making it easy to write C# code for embedded systems.
The .NET nanoFramework GitHub organization has 97 public repositories. While I am a huge fan of mono-repositories, I joined the project when there were already too many repositories to move to a mono-repository. It may happen in the future, who knows, but in the meantime, we're happy with our 97 repositories. They generate 230 nuget … Continue reading nanoFramework GitHub PR analysis
New features and bug fixes are bread and butter in the software industry and embedded systems are no exception. These are made available in releases, which all need to be published and deployed. Quite often, the last step is the most challenging of all given that the capabilities and available resources of the device subjected … Continue reading In-field update [WIP]
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
Original post at José Simões personal blog here.
A quick blog post about a survey we are conducting about nanoFramework ready hardware. We get it that there is already a bunch of hardware out there that one can choose to start with or develop an embedded systems project on top of. But we've been giving this some thought internally and we are inclined … Continue reading nanoFramework ready hardware?
Today we are proudly announcing the first official release of nanoFramework. What a journey we’ve made… for over two years now a lot of code has been written, tested, and rewritten. A lot of ideas were discussed, tested, reviewed, implemented and even scraped. We won’t bother you with statistics on the number of commits or … Continue reading nanoFramework v1.0 is official!
If you are in the .NET world for long enough, you’ve probably have come across with the term obfuscation at some point. In a nutshell and paraphrasing Garry Trinder: “is the process of scrambling the symbols, code, and data of a program to prevent reverse engineering.” As most of us are aware there are several … Continue reading Obfuscation? We have an app for that!
After many discussions we’ve decided it is within the best interest of the project to move our chat platform from Slack to Discord. Why are we doing this? Since initiating the project we’ve been using Slack, which has proved more than adequate for the task at hand. However, Slack uses a freemium model, which is … Continue reading We are moving our chat to Discord
Although it has got easier over the years, debugging Visual Studio extensions is generally thought of as a dark art, this blog post is aimed at those people who wish get started. Specifically it is aimed at debugging the nanoFramework Visual Studio extension which will help us (with the aid of all willing volunteers) to … Continue reading Debugging a visual studio extension
Here’s a quick overview on one of the key aspects of any software project: the build. nanoFramework is no different and we all know how critical this is, so we’ve put a lot of attention and care on this matter. The goal was to make it highly configurable (because there are a lot of features … Continue reading Build, build, build…