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#1 Falstaff

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Posted 08 February 2011 - 06:06 AM

I just got my Netduino Plus, and did the blinking LED thing. Very nice! So now I'm wanting to explore all the classes available in the .NET MF and the Netduino SDK and get a grasp on the APIs and general architecture of the environment. There seems to be no integrated help in the editor (in Visual Studio 2010 Pro) as pressing F1 on the class name 'OutputPort', for example, comes up blank. Am I missing something, or is this just not there? I see the '.NET Micro Framework Platform SDK' and API reference online, but it's not integrated. I see nothing at all in the way of documentation for the Netduino-specific classes. I can see classes in the Object Browser, but there's none of the embedded (e.g. intellisense) documentation I'm used to in the full .NET libraries. So just how are Netduino developers exploring this environment and learning how to use it?

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Posted 08 February 2011 - 06:34 AM

Hi Falstaff, With Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft moved most of the help online (including the .NET Micro Framework SDK documentation). For the AnalogInput and PWM Netduino classes, there are a bunch of samples on the forums (just search for either one). If you run into any troubles, we'll be happy to walk you through it. [We're also working on a Sandcastle-style online help system for Netduino classes.] Chris

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Posted 10 February 2011 - 08:22 PM

I am also wondering about the same thing. I am new to the development environment, and other than what is posted on here I don't know what commands I can call for the Netduino. Is there a library or something I can just browse which has all the commands/classes the Netduino is capable of?

Be patient with me, I'm new to this.


#4 Falstaff

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Posted 11 February 2011 - 06:28 AM

Hi Falstaff,

With Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft moved most of the help online (including the .NET Micro Framework SDK documentation).

For the AnalogInput and PWM Netduino classes, there are a bunch of samples on the forums (just search for either one). If you run into any troubles, we'll be happy to walk you through it. [We're also working on a Sandcastle-style online help system for Netduino classes.]

Chris

I did switch to online help to pick this up, though I prefer local help. Full Sandcastle help files would be nice. But even just having the self-documenting tags for intellisense and parameter help, etc. goes a long way. Fortunately the same work gets you both quite easily! Odd that the MS .NET MF has online help, but no intellisense documentation.

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Posted 02 August 2011 - 02:13 PM

I'm having the same problem. There's a bunch of stuff installed in a folder with the Micro Framework (Program Files\Microsoft .NET Micro Framework\v4.1\Documentation\NET MicroFramework Docs), but I have no idea how to view it. It's not integrated into the VS help files. And I don't see any documentation for the Netduino SDK.

#6 Mattster

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Posted 16 November 2011 - 03:49 PM

Yeah, what they all said. I'm using Cuno's book as an intro to the *duino world and a chance to get acquainted with C#. As an ancient C/Asm system programmer (who is somewhat out of practice), I'm kind of accustomed to sitting down and reading the Big Picture of a new system near the beginning of a project. I realize that the young whippersnappers these days are much smarter than us old fogeys so they don't actually have to read the fine manuals. but I'm curious what form of osmosis I need to learn in order to find a simple definition of classes that I might want to use here. Thanks!

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Posted 01 December 2011 - 07:13 AM

http://nerduino.word...mf-vs2010-help/




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