I am thinking about introducing OpenNETCF's Smart Device Framework at my company, as I like the SafeHandle class. But I would like to know what else is good in it. Anyone found a good blogpost or something with the most useful classes and functions in OpenNETCF?
We get this question from time to time, and it's actually hard to answer because there's just so much in there.
So here's a list of my favorites, by namespace:
- OpenNETCF.IO
- FFT (self-explanatory)
- MemoryMappedFile (IPC data tool)
- StreamInterfaceDriver (base class for almost any driver-level access)
- PhysicalAddressPointer (great for direct register access on hardware)
- OpenNETCF.IO.Threading
- NamedMutex and EventWaitHandle (you can actually use named system events, so they're system unique - again good for IPC)
- OpenNETCF.ToolHelp (good for anything where you need a list of processes, threads, etc)
- OpenNETCF.Diagnostics
- TextWriterTraceListener and Trace2 (you can do logging just like on the desktop)
- OpenNETCF.Drawing.Imaging (all sorts of stuff for the Imaging namespace - good for alpha blending, rotations, etc)
- OpenNETCF.Net.NetworkInformation (everything you ever wanted to know abpout any of your network interfaces)
- OpenNETCF.Windows.Forms
- OwnerDrawnList (for those times when a boring list just won't do)
- RoundGauge (ugly looking, but a great code example on a complex control without flickering)
- OpenNETCF.WindowsCE
- LargeIntervalTime (for firing events even when the device is suspended)
- OpenNETCF.WindowsCE.Messaging
- P2PMessageQueue (nothing better for queued IPC)
Now there is a lot more than this in there - there's no way I could reasonably list it all. This is just a sampling of my favorites/most commonly used from quickly browsing the source tree.