According to Microsoft, the new book, by Donald Thompson and Rob S. Miles, will serve as the "essential guide for developing applications for the next generation of embedded devices." When the book was
announced in January, it was scheduled for publication in the April timeframe. The Microsoft Press
web page now shows a June 13 release date.
The
.NET Developers' Journal, meanwhile, has made
Chapter 4, Building a Device available for free access on its website. The authors use .NET MF to build "the ultimate flashlight" with find-in-the-dark flashing behavior and a power-audit mode. This is destined to become "the ultimate in personal illumination for the twenty-first century," they claim.
The chapter begins with a simple polled push-on, push-off flashlight, then progresses to an interrupt-driven pushbutton, and finally adds the flash-finder feature using foreground and background threads.
Amazon.com is offering
Embedded Programming with the Microsoft .NET Micro Framework at a pre-order price of $29.96,
here. The book's website, which includes a table of contents and three draft chapters in PDF form, is located
here.
Further information on the .NET Micro Framework is available in our coverage of its
release by Microsoft earlier this year, and in the "related stories" below.
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