Expert .Net Micro Framework

ISBN-13: 9781430223870 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 504 str.

Jens Kuhner

Opis

It all started at Microsoft's European Mobile and Embedded Developers Conference (MEDC Europe) 2006 in Nice, France. At this event, I saw the .NET Micro Framework presented for the first time in a session by Jonathan Kagle and Lorenzo Tessiore. As a .NET programmer for desktop and smart device applications, I was impressed by the idea of being able to program embedded microcontrollers with my everyday development tool and programming language: Microsoft Visual Studio and C#. I got a CD with the not-yet-released .NET Micro Framework SDK 1.0 from Lorenzo after the presentation; the emulator it included was not customizable and was built specifically for the Sumo Robot contest that took place at the conference. The contest's goal was to program a Sumo robot (a small robot supporting the .NET Micro Framework) with Visual Studio and C# so that it was intelligent enough to react to sensor input and push an enemy from the battlefield. Instead of going to the beach in Nice in the evening, I stayed in my hotel room and tweaked the software development kit's (SDK's) emulation mechanism to launch my own emulator. My first emulator just indicated the activity of a general purpose input/output (GPIO) port on the emulator's user interface using a check box. This allowed me to write my first .NET Micro Framework application, which toggled a GPIO port, and run it on my first emulator.

Spis treści

1. Introducing XML and the .NET Framework
2. Devices
3. Getting Started
4. Introducing the .NET Micro Framework Base Class Library
5. Accessing Hardware
6. Networking
7. Wireless Communication
8. Cryptography
9. Advanced .NET Micro Framework Programming
10. Resources, Globalization, and Localization
11. Graphics and Graphical User Interfaces
12. Hardware Emulation
13. Emulator Components

O autorze

Jens Kuhner works for Vallon GmbH in Germany as a principal software developer developing metal detectors and ferrous locators. He creates software for data acquisition and evaluation using the .NET Framework and Compact Framework. Since this software must be incorporated closely with the detectors hardware, an interest in embedded systems was only natural. Jens has been involved with the .NET Micro Framework from the very start, when he saw it presented at MEDC Europe. Since then, he's been an active beta tester of the technology and a regular contributor to Micro Framework forums.