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[hari]

Dear SecretLabs, Although Visual Studio Status bar and Output window clearly shows what goes on during a deploy to the Netduino, I think it would be comforting to see the embedded LED blink in sync with the bits being transferred from the PC.

[Eric Burdo]

I have a tiny bit of code I throw into each project I do. It just flashes the LED a couple times when the program starts. Kinda gives me a half-second "hey you" so I know the app is starting. But the flashing lid to signify activity... that would be kinda neat.

[mrxer]

Any suggest the best way to blink a led asychronously...wan to create a methoud called startblinking & stopblinking

[Nevyn]

If you are talking about from your application (rather than when deploying) then yes there is a relatively simple way.  Have a look at the post on Timers I have recently published.

 

You could use the ideas in that post to develop a class containing a timer.  This would fire at a defined interval and you would use the OutputPort idea to turn a LED on/off rather than one of the digital ports.

 

For the Start method you would simply instantiate the timer.  For the Stop method you would dispose of it.

 

You could wrap all of this up in its own class or just have it in the main program/class.

 

Hope this helps,

Mark

 

Edit - Added a clarification on the purpose of the application.

Edited by Nevyn, 08 January 2013 - 01:24 PM.