About this episode
Carl and Richard discuss the .NET nanoFramework with José Simões, exploring its applications in embedded systems and IoT.
Ready to go nano? Carl and Richard talk to José Simões about the open source .NET nanoFramework - a community-driven project to provide .NET for embedded systems. José talks about the evolution from the .NET microFramework, to something even smaller, while at the same time, microcontrollers have gotten much more powerful. The conversation looks beyond the hobbyist and educational uses of these systems into commercial IoT applications. The development cycle is one you'll recognize, working in Visual Studio (or Visual Studio Code) and executing against an emulator, or to the actual controller via USB. And yes, you can set breakpoint in the controller!
People in this episode
Host: Carl Franklin
Guest: José Simões
Topics covered
- embedded systems
- IoT applications
- open source
- microcontrollers
- development cycle
Keywords
- nanoFramework
- embedded systems
- IoT
- microcontrollers
- Visual Studio
- development cycle
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: .NET nanoFramework, .NET microFramework, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code
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