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While the tool to flash the SD that Microsoft built requires Windows 10, it doesn't require anything else besides a Pi: http://ms-iot.github.io/content/en-US/win10/SetupRPI.htm Granted, if you go through the developer site, it points you towards installing what you need to develop software for it. shrug
There are dozens of other tools available to do the same thing, and yet they had to go build their own?
Sorry, silly question: can one use this Win10 R-pi as a "real computer"? (more to the point: I want to run labview programs on this r-pi, because of its small size/cost -- give/receive triggers various home automation equipment etc., I'm wondering if that'll be possible with this)
http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/LabVIEW-for-Ra...
A robotic hockey table doesn't seem very IoT to me. I'm a little confused as to what Windows brings to the table for embedded devices at this point, especially screenless ones.
Microsoft just came out with an Android Emulator this year too. It's faster than any other emulator that I've seen and it's really well integrated with Visual Studio. If you've never really used Microsofts tools before and all that you've heard about Microsoft has originated from the crowd that hangs out at HN, you can be forgiven for not knowing that they make very fine quality tools.
The hardware compatibility part of the release notes look like a bad linux install from 1995, which is pretty funny.
Does this run win32 applications?
Next on the list of bad IoT ideas, we port Flash to the Raspberry Pi.
Supporting a proprietary platform on Raspberry Pi kind of defeats the point of the openness on which Raspberry Pi was built, no?
Unfortunately, there are a few parts of RPi that are closed, like the GPU, if I recall correctly, but I do agree with you that it sort of goes against the philosophy of tinkering that openness brings.
When they released this a couple of months ago I was pretty excited to try it out. I think the barrier to installation is a bit high. First install Windows 10, then custom install of VS, install IoT Templates, then about 30 more steps before you get the image to flash on your SD. How about a link to the image I can blast on the SD and kick the tires without a couple hours of downloading and installing prerequisites?
While the tool to flash the SD that Microsoft built requires Windows 10, it doesn't require anything else besides a Pi: http://ms-iot.github.io/content/en-US/win10/SetupRPI.htm Granted, if you go through the developer site, it points you towards installing what you need to develop software for it. shrug
That requirement itself is a big step:
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I imagine you never used VC++ debugger...
I have quite regularly, but I'm just as comfortable in that of Eclipse, Qt Creator, gdb, or even binary debuggers like IDA's or OllyDbg for reverse engineering. I don't see it as a major advantage over any other platform. It's a simple GUI debugger, nothing fancy. Am I missing something?
- Visualization of threads and their stacks contents
- Customizable breakpoints in many different ways (conditions, hit count, only on special thread)
- Visualization of tasks (PPL)
- Its STL visualizers are much nicer to use and customize than any of the alternatives
- Selective control of threads execution behavior
- Re-execution of code blocks
- Ability to perform code navigation across .obj and .dll files without access to source code (only on Architect version)
Yeah sure, gdb can have some of this stuff, it even allows for some kind of C/C++ REPL, but I won't be debugging parallel code with it.
I just don't get why they would put up a barrier to entry by requiring Windows 10 - at least I can't think of any technical rationale.