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Welcome (and welcome back!) to the Netduino community.
For Netduino 3, you'll need a copy of VS2012 or VS2013. Express or Pro+ editions are fine. VS2015 will probably also work for you, although it's still in beta.
For free editions: VS Express for Windows Desktop and VS Community Edition should both work fine.
One more thing: going forward, the NETMF SDK may be adopting a "current and previous version" approach to supporting IDEs with the latest versions of .NET MF. So I would recommend grabbing a copy of VS2013 for your new Netduino 3.
BTW, what cool things are you thinking of building using Wi-Fi?
Hello! I have the original Netduino, Plus, and Mini, and just learned of the 3 - accidentally, while searching for other Wi-Fi-oriented solutions! My N3 should be here tomorrow, and I wanted to clarify what the VS requirements are, so I can be all set up and ready to go... I run VS2010 Pro all day every day - is that an option? It was for N1/N1P/Nm, but the Downloads page links to 2013, and I wasn't sure if that's just because it's the latest, or because of a framework-oriented requirement? If 2013 is required, what about Express (as linked) vs. Community? Finally, what about 2015 Community RC? Apologies if this is covered elsewhere, I did search, and checked pretty much every N3 thread...
Welcome (and welcome back!) to the Netduino community.
For Netduino 3, you'll need a copy of VS2012 or VS2013. Express or Pro+ editions are fine. VS2015 will probably also work for you, although it's still in beta.
For free editions: VS Express for Windows Desktop and VS Community Edition should both work fine.
One more thing: going forward, the NETMF SDK may be adopting a "current and previous version" approach to supporting IDEs with the latest versions of .NET MF. So I would recommend grabbing a copy of VS2013 for your new Netduino 3.
BTW, what cool things are you thinking of building using Wi-Fi?
Thanks for the detailed explanation Chris! FYI we met at MIX '11 - I was using Netduinos to control RC cars... Current project is home automation, and we're mostly focused on ESP8266s and Raspberry Pis, BUT that's proven somewhat frustrating and with the sudden discovery of the Wi-Fi N3, I thought I'd pick one up to have a play in this much more familiar world...
PS, just curious: what about VS Code, or e.g. Sublime Text with MSBuild or other CLI tools...
Thanks for the detailed explanation Chris! FYI we met at MIX '11 - I was using Netduinos to control RC cars...
Oh hey, hi there! That was a pretty cool project! MIX attendees certainly had a lot of fun with it too.
PS, just curious: what about VS Code, or e.g. Sublime Text with MSBuild or other CLI tools...
VS Code is currently focused on ASP.NET and similar types of projects. And yes, I have already asked Microsoft for NETMF support in VS Code. For today we have (the awesome) Visual Studio IDE.
BTW, you could build your own custom integration with other IDEs if you wanted. Xamarin Studio has some support for Netduino (in Monkey.Robotics) as a reference.
Cool - I am a massive VS fan, I was just hoping for some lightweight solution to use on a more anemic device (not wanting to tamper w/ my production box right now); I think I may almost be there with VS2015CS; I'm finding a lot of great content in the forums, but are there any comprehensive online resources that I'm missing, beyond Downloads? Most of what I'm finding seems geared toward older hardware/software... If there are no current resources - is there an easy way to contribute some, as a byproduct of my experience?
The best ways to share code today is through the Projects Showcase forum and by uploading your source to GitHub...and then letting us all know about it here.
We may look into a "code share"/"community samples" type of section in the future as well...but today we tend to coordinate and celebrate code through the forums.