Microsoft .NET Micro network

Thanks to Lennie de Villiers for the tip off. As well as Silverlight 3 which came out today, there's another .NET framework with a very small CLR; that's the .NET Micro Framework. The SDK for it (a whopping 10.8 MB in size!) SDK supports development of code, including device I/O, in the C# language using a subset of the .NET libraries, and is fully integrated with the Microsoft Visual Studio development environment. It's for developing small embedded systems.

This appears to work with Visual C# 2008 Express. I say appears because although I downloaded it, it wouldn't install as I don't have SP 1 for Visual C# 2008 Express. To be honest, my installs are in a state of flux as I have the Silverlight 3 Beta tools, SP 1 For Visual Studio 2008 etc. I need an hour or two to fix everything! I can't even install Silverlight 3 until the beta tools are removed!

I think sometimes it would be nice if all the development tools stayed stable and static for 2-3 years with no new versions of software but that's not the real world with competition and commercial pressure etc. I can dream!

• Link to C# Tutorials
• Link to Download and Install Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Express Edition