Expert .NET Micro Framework / Edition 2

by Jens Khner

Overview

The Microsoft .NET Micro Framework is a small and efficient .NET runtime environment used to run managed code on devices that are too small and resource constrained for Windows CE and the Compact Framework.

Expert .NET Micro Framework will teach you everything you need to know to use the .NET Micro Framework to create effective embedded applications. It begins with the basics of accessing hardware and networking before delving deep into the less-known areas such as cryptography and globalization, and how to use technologies such as wireless communication that are not directly supported by the .NET Micro Framework. This book is a must if you want to get as much as possible out of the .NET Micro Framework to write powerful embedded applications.

Expert .NET Micro Framework also describes how to use resources and write globalized and multilingual embedded applications. You will learn how to effectively use binary serialization to store data permanently in flash memory or exchange data with a PDA or PC. Topics like cryptography and encrypted data exchange with a .NET or Compact Framework application are covered.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781430223870
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	09/16/2009
Series:	Expert's Voice in .NET
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	504
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Jens Kuhner works for Vallon GmbH in Germany as a principal software developer developing metal detectors and ferrous locators. He creates software for data acquisition and evaluation using the .NET Framework and Compact Framework. Since this software must be incorporated closely with the detectors hardware, an interest in embedded systems was only natural. Jens has been involved with the .NET Micro Framework from the very start, when he saw it presented at MEDC Europe. Since then, he's been an active beta tester of the technology and a regular contributor to Micro Framework forums.

Table of Contents

Introducing the .NET Micro Framework.- Devices.- Getting Started.- Introducing the .NET Micro Framework Base Class Library.- Accessing Hardware.- Networking.- Wireless Communication.- Cryptography.- Advanced .NET Micro Framework Programming.- Resources, Globalization, and Localization.- Graphics and Graphical User Interfaces.- Hardware Emulation.- Emulator Components.