Again, thanks for the noob pointers. Yes I am quite experienced as a developer, Remoting, WCF, WPF all all pretty much second nature to me and I cringe on the thought of not having them. But Solder? I cringe at thought as well But as I mentioned, I have done some. I have the saleae analyser that does I2C and others, as well as the newer one which adds analog (oscope), on order
Yes getting vs2013 up was the first step.
So I had a look at the internet of things. I ran step 1 ok, step 2 was not blinking the light, so I added a Parameters.Setup(), because I didn't see where the proper pin was being set. And that invoked the 'sign up for you private key, we only want your personal information' routine and I bailed. I'll see what I can get from the code, but I really dislike that kind of dishonest thing. If it truly can be run without it (as advertised), one preprocessor variable should do the trick, not 30 minutes of chasing down unrelated code.
I'll take a look at Mark's blog now. Mine is at http://www.spiked3.com <- warning; not open source friendly at all