Today is "born" a new dedicated website by Microsoft on the Internet of Things that talks about the Internet of Your Things and highlights that the IoT can be achieved by each of us with his own "things" that can interconnect with each other through the Cloud. On the website you can find all the information about this new (or already mature ?) project on which Microsoft is focusing its business using what is already good for the embedded world (all operating systems of the Windows Embedded family to which I would add the .NET Micro Framework) and joining it to the powerful of the Cloud (Microsoft Azure is well known). It's true what the new CEO Satya Nadella said with intention to want "a cloud for everyone , on every device" for which the #cloud4device can be understood in its most general main, not only smartphones and tablets but also devices and "things" that connect to the big network ! You can subscribe to a newsletter that will begin on July 1st, but ... maybe from that date ... we'll see ...

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In December 2013, DMP released new platforms based on the Vortex86 architecture and compatible with the well known Arduino programming model. I ordered one of these platforms and made my first tests during the week end.

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If using 3.1.0.0 version you realize that Connect and Disconnect events are not raised ... it is correct ... they are not handled in the client and you need to update the library or ignore them !

I released an update M2Mqtt library (version 3.2.0.0) that lays out this oversight.

Following the code merge between the M2Mqtt client library and the future GnatMQ broker I made the mistake of including the SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, CONNECT and DISCONNECT messages handling also in the client (of course without any sense) with the corresponding events.

The update is available as always on Nuget and I proceeded to update the corresponding M2Mqtt4CE component for Windows Embedded Compact 2013.

Also this time an update arrives on time for my M2Mqtt library now reached to version 3.1.0.0 ! The main updates concerning better management of QoS Level 2 , some client properties exposed to the outside but especially the fact that it assessed and added some requests that I received by users that obviously thank you ! Also, in some parts of the source code you will see a compilation directive that is conditional on the definition of the symbol BROKER ... why ? I standardized the library code of M2Mqtt with the code of a MQTT broker that I am developing and which will shortly be released in beta version. Its name is GnatMQ and the project is already published online on CodePlex and then open source. Please note that currently it is still a version in development and not completely stable but the release is imminent ! In addition to updating the project on CodePlex , I updated its package on Nuget ( which has now passed 1000 downloads ! ), the code in the Microsoft Gallery and the project M2Mqtt4CE to in ...

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Now same version as in Compact13Tools:

• Compact13Tools includes Compact13Minshell as one of its subcomponents.

This version also sorts the menu.

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Those who follow my blog know that the publisher Packt Publishing was a sponsor of the Microsoft Embedded Conference 2014 in Naples on February 15th.

I want to speak about an interesting promotion that is taking these days to celebrate the 2,000 titles and that is to purchase a book to receive another for free !

At the following link you can find all the information on this incredible offer !

Hey, I’m excited! I hope you are too. I’ve cracked the code for building C# apps directly with the OS build. That is, as an OS Subproject of a Windows Embedded Compact OS project the Managed Code project can be built and run as with Native Code apps. No SDK needed! No second instance of Visual Studio. There are actually a few ways for doing this but shouldn't we be able to do it like native code subprojects.

Topics:

• The Compact Framework
• CE.NET
• Corecon and SDK app development
• Managed Code apps in the OS Build
• Partial Solutions for so doing

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Updated list of Windows Embedded Compact/CE on Codeplex.

Last updated: 21/03/2014

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Topics:

• Announcement:: CESerialTerm
  • A Simple Serial Terminal for Compact 2013/7
• Updates in Compact13Tools Version 4.0
  • Includes a Windows style Start Menu
• A Deep Dive in Compact13Tools and MinShell
• The new Start Menu

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  We are to the last post of this tutorial that guides us through the creation of a proprietary component (using the M2Mqtt library as an example) for Platform Builder and its inclusion in the Windows Embedded Compact 2013. In this final post we will see how you can use this component in a sample managed application using also debugging. SDK and Application Builder When we build Windows Embedded Compact 2013 image that we have to provide to the software development team that will implement the high-level application for the target device, we must necessarily also make available its SDK. It contains all the header files and static libraries that developers can use to build applications in native code, avoiding the use of the APIs that we have not included in our image. Typically we would not need the SDK with managed applications based on .Net Compact Framework but unfortunately without any SDK installed, Visual Studio 2012 does not make available any templates for applications based on Windows Embedde ...

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