The using statement is an extremely useful feature of C# and it's quite disappointing that Phidgets did not implement IDisposable. Thankfully it's fairly easy to create a wrapper for any Phidget that implements it so we can simply some code.
Tag archives: mono
PhidgetSBC2 Interactive C# Shell
One cool package for playing around with your phidget(s) is mono-csharp-shell which gives you an interactive C# shell (with tab completion).
apt-get install -y mono-csharp-shellOnce the package is installed, you can open it with csharp but just like with gmcs we have to include the reference to the Phidget library.
csharp -r:Phidget21.NET.dllMissing Namespaces on PhidgetSBC2’s Mono
Since we cannot install mono-complete on the PhidgetSBC2 currently, we are missing some of the C# namespaces. If you are trying to use any of the following namespaces and gmcs cannot find it, you will have to install the respective package.
| Namespace | Package |
|---|---|
| Mono.Data | libmono-data2.0-cil |
| System.Data | libmono-system-data2.0-cil |
| System.Data.Linq | libmono-system-data-linq2.0-cil |
| System.DirectoryServices | libmono-system-ldap2.0-cil |
| System.Messaging | libmono-system-messaging2.0-cil |
| System.Runtime | libmono-system-runtime2.0-cil |
| System.Web | libmono-system-web2.0-cil |
| System.Web.Mvc | libmono-system-web-mvc2.0-cil |
Using Mono on the PhidgetSBC2
So this Monday my PhidgetSBC2 arrived and I was super excited to get started playing around with the short-term goal of being able to open my door lock remotely.
I really wanted to write the code in C# because it's simply better than Java and it's lot easier to implement a server in C# than in C. While the manual for the SBC2 says you can get Mono working if you install the correct packages, I couldn't find any information on the Phidget website on how to do it, so I had to figure it out myself.