Visual Basic support for Netduino and .NET MF now in beta
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Posted 08 June 2011 - 08:35 AM
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Posted 08 June 2011 - 10:58 AM
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Posted 08 June 2011 - 11:37 AM
Indeed, very nice first post by the way Welcome to the Netduino Community!Super cool the VB support is coming.
My .NETMF projects: .NETMF Toolbox / Gadgeteer Light / Some PCB designs
#4
Posted 08 June 2011 - 08:08 PM
Yes! We're very excited.Super cool the VB support is coming.
If you're a Visual Basic programmer, you can now write code for microcontrollers--pretty awesome
The Visual Basic support is all there--but there may be a few rough edges. If you'd like to start working with it, we'd love to hear your feedback so we can help make .NET MF 4.2 a high quality release for VB programmers.
Chris
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Posted 09 June 2011 - 10:02 AM
NOTE: The beta only works with non-Express versions of Visual Studio
Very happy VB support has materialized, but are there plans to allow it to work with the Express versions as well? I do see this as an unnecessary barrier to widespread adoption of VB.NET as a Netduino development platform.
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Posted 09 June 2011 - 10:33 AM
I'm told that Visual Basic Express support should be live in the Release Candidate or RTM version. Sometime in the next month or two.Very happy VB support has materialized, but are there plans to allow it to work with the Express versions as well? I do see this as an unnecessary barrier to widespread adoption of VB.NET as a Netduino development platform.
Chris
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Posted 09 June 2011 - 03:22 PM
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Posted 09 June 2011 - 04:12 PM
This is tremendous. I'm a capable C# dev, but, because I live in it all day, I have a tendency to think VB. Will make the rapid development of code a little more rapid for me. Thanks to everyone that contributed to this for their hard work!
Its great to see that people are excited about VB Support. I work in both and love VB. The VB stuff is still in Beta so please do provide feedback on things that are not working 100% so we can work to get them resolved.
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Posted 15 June 2011 - 07:51 AM
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Posted 15 June 2011 - 04:47 PM
WOOT!!!!Quick update: Visual Basic Express is now supported by the .NET Micro Framework 4.2 Beta SDK
Looks like I've got plenty o' tinkerin' to do this weekend... Time to migrate my I2C device library (24LCXXX Eeproms, MCP230XX expanders, etc) over to VB.
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Posted 17 July 2011 - 03:50 PM
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Posted 03 August 2011 - 01:26 PM
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Posted 03 August 2011 - 09:30 PM
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Posted 04 August 2011 - 12:34 AM
Thanks for the link, skytribe! I see that lots of people are talking about it on the social media sites. I'm glad to see so much enthusiasm about VB with .NET MF.Blog article using VB for simple Netduino Application
http://blogs.msdn.co...a-netduino.aspx
Chris
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Posted 27 June 2012 - 08:50 AM
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Posted 27 December 2012 - 11:07 PM
I just got the Netduino Plus 2 for Christmas. It's been two years since I've tinkered with electronics on a BASIC stamp microcontroller. I was kind of hoping this would force me to get more proficient in C#, just finished the three simple tutorials and now I see this! Like the others, I work in VB.NET all day so I am very tempted to update, but I wouldn't mind hearing something that could motivate me to stick with the C# (other than the value of learning C#). Aside from this being beta support (assuming it still is), is there any performance disadvantage if I proceed with the firmware update, anything at all that might encourage me not to?
Thanks!
Ben
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Posted 28 December 2012 - 09:27 AM
Hi Stugots,
I'm sorry to inform you, VB-support isn't beta anymore, it's ready to be used
You could still challenge yourself with C# if you like, but VB support works great.
My .NETMF projects: .NETMF Toolbox / Gadgeteer Light / Some PCB designs
#18
Posted 28 December 2012 - 11:36 AM
I must have missed this too, does VB now implement System.Convert.ToUInt64, Decimal, etc? (try decoding a NTP time byte string in VB only!)
#19
Posted 04 January 2013 - 06:33 PM
Is there support for VB and NetduinoGO?
#20
Posted 05 January 2013 - 03:10 AM
Is there support for VB and NetduinoGO?It should work; if you run into any troubles, just let us know and we'll investigate. Chris
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