A few quick notes on the upcoming Netduino SDK for Azure (which Steve Teixeira mentioned in his IoT session)...
The Netduino SDK for Azure is something we're building in parallel to other Azure/IoT devtools work that's happening at Microsoft. Microsoft is in a "ship early and ship often" mode regarding IoT at the moment, and the Netduino SDK for Azure will follow that same strategy.
The first release of the SDK (June 2014) will focus on enabling developers to connect their Netduino projects to--and sync sensor data with--the Azure cloud. That cloud can act as a data storage/aggregation mechanism; it can also act as an intelligent data analysis engine, taking actions based on that data.
As the SDK evolves, we will be enabling support for additional Azure functionality. This is not a single-version SDK, but rather part of our larger strategy to enable makers to build amazing Internet-connected electronics.
To use the new SDK, we recommend using a
Netduino Plus 2. The SDK will be open source, so you can also use it with other NETMF hardware. We want to help you go from prototype to production with NETMF and Azure.
Some more exciting news: beyond June, and in collaboration with the talented engineers at Xamarin, we will be providing tools to interact with your Netduino-powered IoT device from your Windows, Windows Phone, iOS and Android devices. All using C# and portable code.
This is going to be a fun year
Chris
P.S. if you haven't taken a look at Azure recently...it has turned into a pretty amazing "cloud OS", now with real-time debugging from Visual Studio. There's some mind blowing stuff there.