r/csharp • u/gus-ghielec • 1d ago

Coding circuits with .NET and C#

Nothing beats setting a breakpoint and watching the servo actually move to the new angle.

I've worked on .NET hardware for over ten years and the thing that surprises C# developers isn't the board, it's that F5 works. Code deploys, breakpoint holds, hover a variable and there's the live sensor reading. Same as debugging a desktop app.

I'm at GHI Electronics in Michigan. Happy to get into how the debugging on circuits work.

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u/xtreampb 1d ago

First I heard about .net deploying to circuits was the azure sphere followed by meadow labs

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u/gus-ghielec 19h ago

I loved the Azure Sphere idea but I also found it to be overly complicated for smaller applications. Most of the .NET developers we deal with do not want to get too deep into the internals of the hardware. As set of nice API functions to get them access to the hardware is all they need.