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[timothyp]

HI,

 

Does the netduino firmware support any kind of native code interop.

I've seen some references and promises on the forum but those date back to years ago.

 

Side question: Is the netduino firmware still under active development? 

 

 

[Nevyn]

Does the netduino firmware support any kind of native code interop.

I've seen some references and promises on the forum but those date back to years ago.

 

Side question: Is the netduino firmware still under active development? 

 

The NETMF classes have to call native code in order to talk to the microcontroller and so there is an interface available.  I think you would be expected to bind your native code into the firmware though in order to call it.  Frank Zhao has written an article on the Adafruit web site about how to write a native extension to the firmware to control Neopixels.

 

The firmware is still under development, check out the Technical Preview forum.

 

Hope this helps,

Mark

[timothyp]

This looks quite promising! I was a bit put off by the fact that he says C# is interpreted but I'll write that down to a language barrier :-)

We've already compiled the netduino firmware and put it on an empty STM chip, so it should be a small step from there.

 

Thank you!

[CW2]

... C# is interpreted but I'll write that down to a language barrier :-)

 

 

That is correct, in the current implementation of .NET Micro Framework, managed code (CIL) is interpreted (there is no JIT).

[timothyp]

That is correct, in the current implementation of .NET Micro Framework, managed code (CIL) is interpreted (there is no JIT).

 

Wow! I had no idea. My mistake