Today we are proud to announce that our Visual Studio extension now supports automatic firmware updates! We hope you agree that this is a major, and much needed feature. What do you have to do to have this working? Just update the Visual Studio extension to the latest version! Once that is done, just plug … Continue reading Automatic firmware updates
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.NET nanoFramework has joined the .NET Foundation!
We have some great news to share: .NET nanoFramework has reached an important milestone by joining the .NET Foundation! This is kind of a “return home” for the project. Despite being, undoubtedly, connected to .NET because of its roots, the programming language, and the tools it uses, it was not exactly part of the family. … Continue reading .NET nanoFramework has joined the .NET Foundation!
Changing licensing to MIT
As some of you may have noticed: we have changed the licensing terms of some of our repositories. Until yesterday, there were two licenses across our repos: Apache 2.0 and MIT. The oldest ones were under Apache 2.0 and newest ones under MIT. Being both the “permissive ones” and, in practice, without much difference between … Continue reading Changing licensing to MIT
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
Stable releases are out!
Today we have completed the publishing of our latest stable releases. This includes all of the firmware images and class libraries. This happens after deep rework on some key components, like the metadata processor (which is responsible for processing the .NET IL and make usable by the .NET nanoFramework CLR & execution engine) and the … Continue reading Stable releases are out!
C# on the Radiona ULX3S using nanoFramework
nanoFramework has been recently discovered by the technology enthusiast GoJimmyPi who has been actively using it on one of it's projects. He recently wrote a blog post describing it's experience and how it's been using it on a Radiona ULX3S development board. Check it out and join our Discord community for discussion.
Stable releases published
Today is a great day: we’ve just published stable releases for all nanoFramework class libraries and firmware images. A lot has changed since the last stable release! Along with many new features, this release brings along a proven history of stability that many of our community have been providing feedback through our preview releases, so … Continue reading Stable releases published
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!
Oil tank telemetry with nanoFramework
The first commercial products with the “nanoFramework inside” label (a shameless copy of the old Intel® logo) are out in the wild! Literally.They were built to perform in a demanding industry and deployment scenarios: oil fields! These devices have been developed and built by OrgPal, a leading remote-monitoring manufacturer and solution provider for the oil … Continue reading Oil tank telemetry with nanoFramework
NuGet, assembly and native versions
nanoFramework C# class libraries are distributed as NuGet packages to be consumed by projects. This has been like this since day one. NuGet packages are practical, easy to distribute, easy to consume, easy to update. But they had a …minor… problem. Actually, make that two… 😉 One was that the dependency between the managed assembly … Continue reading NuGet, assembly and native versions