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robotdad

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About robotdad

I work on IoT dev tools at Microsoft, and a lot of maker stuff.

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    I went to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the early 90s, they had a Sandain image processor in the video lab then. I spent many all nighters patching that thing. It w…

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    Comment #13997971

    Where do EDA types congregate?

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    Comment #13010190

    Enable ssh in your dockerfile and you are good to go there, see this one as an example: https://hub.docker.com/r/ducatel/visual-studio-linux-build-b... Regarding headers/libs you w…

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    Comment #12971227

    The Linux workload is designed to work with GCC today, so whatever standard level your GCC compiler supports is good.

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    Comment #12971212

    PM for this at MS. We do work with WSL but do not rely on it. Currently we treat it as another remote Linux machine, just setup SSH in WSL and we'll work

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    Comment #12503632

    Actually we have something better than that now. Check out http://aka.ms/vslinux

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    Comment #12440588

    The initial report from last year has interesting, if sadly unsurprising, background on how/why so many of these embedded devices have wound up this way. http://blog.sec-consult.co…

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    Comment #11526829

    The field of view is... Not discussed.

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    Comment #11505432

    I audited a security course at UW a few years back, and one evening Cutler stopped by as a guest lecturer.

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    Comment #11402048

    Hope no more, you can have it. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/03/31/cc-extens...

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    Comment #11402011

    We released an C/C++ extension for VS Code today as well. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/03/31/cc-extens...

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    Comment #11398932

    I love platformio too. We have another extension that can be used with platformio. This isn't really documented yet, something I'll be fixing next month. https://visualstudiogaller…

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    Comment #11398903

    Sorry, never meant to mislead that VS was on Linux. Is this the sort of thing you are looking for with respect to clang? https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/01/20/clang-wi…

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    Comment #11395442

    I've been puzzling over this all night. I think I finally got your meaning. I have an IoT focus so "target" doesn't have a negative connotation to me. :)

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    Comment #11394947

    Good point, if needed I'm sure we will.

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    Comment #11394928

    Interesting, give it a try and let me know how it goes. I'd love to talk to you more about your workflow here. Very interesting.

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    Comment #11394632

    I've not tried anything with XServer on windows. What we showed in the blog post is setting export DISPLAY=:0.0 to the Pre-Launch command in the project properties. Then when the g…

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    Comment #11394303

    We'd be very interested to hear how this is working out for folks doing C/C++ web development

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    Comment #11394259

    We're aware of that work of course but haven't tried anything with it yet. We were really focused on the remote compile. Since we only support remote right now to try it you’d have…

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    Comment #11394135

    That's it exactly

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    Comment #11394096

    The dependencies mentioned are for the remote Linux machine you connect to from VS. We use ssh from within VS to copy files across and issue the compilation commands with gcc. Ther…