Blog de Joe Freeman

I've pushed a very rough C# port of the Java IOIO library to GitHub github.com/freemansoft/IOIODotNet/   It communicates with the IOIO as a COM device over Bluetooth. IOIODotNet is a plain old Windows Library. I tried making it a Portable library but .Net portable libraries to don't support Serial devices. The library is a mess of pieces-parts right now with some unit tests that show how it works. There is also a WPF app. Tests and the WPF app poll serial ports to find a Bluetooth attached IOIO. This is a message based API Inbound traffic packed into messages and  routed to inbound handlers. You can add your own or you can poll the ones that exist. Outbound traffic can be sent directly via the API or through a message based API.  I intend that the Message API is the future of the library once resource management has been added. Look at the Integration tests to play with it. They expect at least one IOIO V5xx on a COM port with pins 31 and 32 tied togethe...

I use log4net because it gives me easy class level control over logging levels and it has a lot of outbound (appender) types.  Folks that dislike log4net will not find this post useful. Visual Studio test output can be pretty confounding. There are way to many forum discussions around viewing test logs in Visual Studio. It sort of makes sense because some of the normal logging channels don't make sense in the test environment.  Phones, web apps, console apps, services all log in different environments.  The Visual Studio team changed the location of the logging views in VS2013 (or possibly 2012). Here is my "how did I do that last time" version of configuring log4net logging for unit tests.   Viewing Test Output Visual studio has an Output  window and an Immediate  window buty my output never shows up in either. I've tried routing the console output to the Immediate  window via the preferences. My output never shows up there. It seems l...