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[Thomas Rankin]

I like to wire up my device to log information that my computer can further process and send to other services like Pachube etc. I didn't want to bother setting up an USB RS232 cable and board. Through some research I found Chris Walker mention that you could tap into the MFDeployEngine, but I wasn't able to find any code to do so. So I did a little research, and found that it was quite simple really. MFDeploy turns out to be quite a powerful tool to interface with your NetMF Devices.

// Have to add references for MFDeployEngine.dll & Microsoft.SPOT.Debugger.dll

using System;
using Microsoft.NetMicroFramework.Tools.MFDeployTool.Engine;
using System.Threading;

namespace MFDeployEngineDataLogger
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            using (MFDeploy mfDeploy = new MFDeploy())
            {

                var devicePorts = mfDeploy.EnumPorts(TransportType.USB);
                if (devicePorts.Count != 0)
                {
                    using (MFDevice netduino = mfDeploy.Connect(devicePorts[0]))
                    {
                        if (netduino.DbgEngine.IsConnected)
                        {
                            netduino.DbgEngine.OnMessage += new Microsoft.SPOT.Debugger.MessageEventHandler(DbgEngine_OnMessage);
                            Thread.Sleep(Timeout.Infinite);
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            Console.WriteLine("Could not Connect");
                            Console.Read();
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        static void DbgEngine_OnMessage(Microsoft.SPOT.Debugger.WireProtocol.IncomingMessage msg, string text)
        {
            Console.Write(text);
        }
    }
}

[upak]

Hey Thomas, Did you use MFDeployEngine to store persistent data? I want to do that, but I don't know how. I don't know if I should update my firmware from 4.1 to 4.2, and I don't know where do I get the "MFDeployEngine.dll" file. Also, how can I make sure I'm not overriding some important data? Any help would be appreciated.