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
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Celebrating IoT Day with .NET nanoFramework – Empowering IoT Solutions with Ease
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.
Real Hardware Tests in Azure DevOps Pipelines for .NET nanoFramework PR: IoT TestStream
This article will go through what we've put in place for .NET nanoFramework to add real hardware tests in various devices from our Azure DevOps pipelines. It's a kind of dream coming true after years of adding what's needed to be able to set this up properly. I remember a discussion we had with José … Continue reading Real Hardware Tests in Azure DevOps Pipelines for .NET nanoFramework PR: IoT TestStream
.NET nanoFramework: TLS 1.3 Available – Security First!
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!
Major enhancements in System.IO.FileSystem for .NET nanoFramework
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
nanoFramework GitHub PR analysis
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
Welcome Silabs Giant Gecko!
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!
Decoding ESP32 back trace
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.
PalThree board becomes Azure Certified Device
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
2 million nuget downloads and counting
.NET nanoFramework NuGet downloads have reached on the last 7th of May the symbolic milestone of 2 million downloads. Statistics the 12th of May shows clearly more than the 2 million: The first million was reached on the 9th of August 2021. It took 5 years to reach the first million and only 9 months … Continue reading 2 million nuget downloads and counting