[Anders Søborg]

Hi

It is correct that you can run a web-server on the EV3 and host a ASP.NET site. However it did not quite perform the way we want so for now it has been disabled from the firmware application. Have a look at the firmware application line 42. It is still part of the firmware dll but will fail to start since the webserver is not part of the current image. As soon as we have it working we will upload a new image.

/Anders

[Anders Søborg]

Hi Helmut

Xamarin Studio combined with the lastes Add-in for the MonoBrick firmware gives you an absolutely amazing experience when debugging a program – I think that you should give it a try – and if in fact you need to make a robot that uses a neural network there are plenty of good third party .NET libraries out there that can run on the EV3 brick just by adding a reference to a DLL. But if you don’t fancy working with OOP and Visual Sudio/Eclipse then maybe MonoBrick firmware/LeJos is not the right choice.

Anders

[Anders Søborg]

Hi Max

I was just hoping for a Visual Studio Add-in and not a template. But after seeing your YouTube video I can see that the template works quite nicely. I would like to use this on my site if that is ok with you? You would of course get full credit. Also if you could write a guide along the lines of this that would be great. What do you say?

Concerning debugging I know that it is possible to debug Mono programs from Visual Studio – but not easy and not free!!

Anders

[Anders Søborg]

Nice work. Are you able to create a Add-in for Visual Studio?

/Anders

[Anders Søborg]

Hi All

I don’t want to get into a long debate about pros and cons about Xamarin Studio and other alternatives. But I find it odd that people would like a stripped down IDE with the argument being that you are only programming Robots. MonoBrick firmware allows you to use the full potential of the .Net framework. So it does not matter of you writing a program on a PC or for the EV3. You can access websites, send emails and even make the robot post to Facebook. For this you do not want a simple IDE. Anyway the Xamarin Add-in can now be downloaded here…

/Anders

[Anders Søborg]

Hi

Is there some sort of official table that I can refer to on the website?

/Anders

[Anders Søborg]

Glad to let you all know that a new version is out. Also be sure to use the new Xamarin Studion Add-inXamarin Studion Add-in.

/Anders

[Anders Søborg]

Look here…

[Anders Søborg]

Hi again

Just avoid building the startup app then you should be ok for now.

Anders

[Anders Søborg]

Hi Martin.

Concerning the first issue. Yes currently the master branch does not build – just about to fix it.
To fix the second issue you need to download the Add-in builder for Xamarin Studio. Once this add-in has been installed you can build the add-in – the MonoBrick add-in that is 🙂

Hopefully I will have it ready this week. I have already updated/created some new guides – so we should be ready soon.

Anders

[Anders Søborg]

Hi

Since you are debating using screenshots here are some of the upcomming addin for Xamarin studio. I think that Helmut is way off comparing low level programming for I/O pins with a list-view controller for a for a IOS device. I actually don’t see the point. Anyway the plugin allows you to upload and debug programs directly from the IDE. It works for both USB and WiFi.

Anders

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[Anders Søborg]

Hi

I think that you are mixing the Monobrick firmware and the communication library… they are two different things….

Communication library: Let’s you control the NXT/EV3 over Blutooth, USB and network and works with the standard firmware.

MonoBrick firmware: is a firmware replacement for the EV3

Anders

[Anders Søborg]

Hi

Haved you looked at the documentation found here and the samples found in the guide…

Anders

[Anders Søborg]

Hi Simon

No – I don’t think so since the firmware is using Mono and the Mono debugger. But there might be support for the mono debugger in VS – but I havn’t look into that…

Anders

[Anders Søborg]

Hi Olando

These bugs have already been fixed with this commit and will be part of the next release.

Anders

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