Chris; It finally worked. Thanks. Davis

Chris; I updated the firmware successfully. Previously, during power up, the user led came on for a second or two then turned off. Now it stays on continuously. I can not deploy the Blinky program or any empty Netduino apps to the device -- VS remains in the 'preparing to deploy state'. Davis

Sorry ... you asked what happens if I hit reset during deployment. The answer is: the blue LED light comes on, and stays on, then Visual Studio eventually prompts me with a dialog saying there is an error and asks whether it should cancel the operation. The blue LED remains on after cancelling. or it just stays hung.

hi Chris; The first time I pinged it with MFDeploy, nothing happened; I had to pull the cable to stop the ping process. Then, I executed the erase function successfully and pinged it again. It responded with "TinyClr". However, when I tried to deploy Blinky, it hung as before. Finally, I hit the reset switch a number of times before and after deployment attempts to no affect. Davis

I've just purchased my Netduino and am trying to execute the Blinky project. My Netduino is recognized by the OS. I've entered the code as provided in the setup PDF and on the YouTube video, and configured the project to deploy to the device. When I run the project, it stops at "Preparing to deploy assemblies to the device" then eventually times out with a device not ready error. Here's my setup: Windows 7 64 bit Visual Studio Professional 2010 .NET microframework SDK 4.1 Netduino SDK 4.1.0, 64 bit Any suggestions on how I can trace the problem here? Thanks, Davis