Getting Started with Windows 10 IoT Core Development

Name: Getting Started with Windows 10 IoT Core Development
Rating: 4.5 (28 reviews)

A Kickstart for the Windows 10 IoT Core Beginner

Created byDr. Florian Müller

Last updated 4/2019

English

What you'll learn

Setting up a complete toolchain for developing own Windows 10 IoT Core applications
Developing basic foreground and background applications with web access
Accessing hardware interfaces like the GPIO pins from within a Windows 10 IoT Core application in C++
Setting up a basic prototype electronic circuit
Handling user inputs from physical push buttons
Designing basic user-interfaces
Using development tools like SSH or FTP that help in typical development situations.

Course content

6 sections • 28 lectures • 2h 36m total length

Welcome!2:59

Introduction: Tools Overview0:42
Windows 102:22
Learn how to develop Windows 10 IoT Core applications on Windows 10, verify the OS build with winver, and enable Developer Mode to test and run self-written apps.
Visual Studio5:42
Install Visual Studio Community edition, enable Universal Windows Platform development and C++ UWP tools, then install Windows IoT Core templates and verify them by creating a Windows IoT Core project.
Windows 10 IoT Core Dashboard2:01
Another tool for the development of Windows 10 IoT Core applications is the Windows 10 IoT Core Dashboard. In this lecture you learn how to download and install that tool so that you are ready for setting up an Windows 10 IoT Core target device.
Conclusion2:04

Introduction: The Device Site0:43
Get a Device3:28
In this lecture you will learn what pieces of hardware you need and how to get these to run and test the applications that we are developing throughout this course.
Install Windows 10 IoT Core2:46
Insert the SD card, use the IoT dashboard to set up a new Raspberry Pi device and load Windows 10 IoT Core, then prepare the SD card for first boot.
Configure the Development Board2:02
Add a button and an LED4:11
Conclusion2:08

Introduction1:34
Learn to build Windows 10 IoT Core apps on a Raspberry Pi, from headless to headed graphical interfaces, with hardware access, user input, asynchronous method calls, and deployment options.
Use the GPIO pins: Hello IoT World!10:54
Set up a Windows 10 IoT Core background app in Visual Studio to blink an LED on pin 18 via GPIO. Build, deploy to the device and verify the LED blinks.
Signal the international Morse code distress signal "SOS".0:54
Get User Input with the Push Button (1/2)9:50
Get User Input with the Push Button (2/2)13:57
Explore configuring GPIO pins for user input via a push button on Windows 10 IoT Core, with debouncing and value-changed events to turn an LED on or off.
Hello Headed IoT World, GUI18:40
design a universal Windows UI using xml, grid and stack panels to display a quote of the day and author, updated by a button via a click handler, fetched online.
Hello Headed IoT World, Asynchronous Method Calls21:23
Fetch quotes from the favqs.com REST API and display them in the user interface of a headed Windows 10 IoT Core app, using asynchronous http requests and JSON parsing.
Hello Headed IoT World, Device Interaction12:38
Packaging Applications6:13
Package Windows 10 IoT Core apps for sideloading by generating an appxbundle in Visual Studio and installing via Device Portal on a Raspberry Pi, including install and uninstall steps.
Conclusion4:03
Discover Windows 10 IoT Core development from Visual Studio setup to GPIO input on Raspberry Pi. Learn to build foreground and background apps with XML UI and REST API calls.

Introduction0:59
Discover essential tools for Windows 10 IoT Core development, including the Device Portal for device configuration, SSH access from the command line, and FTP file transfers.
Device Portal: A Web Interface8:02
Terminal Access with SSH5:01
File Transfer via FTP6:05
Learn to set up FTP on the target device, connect via SSH using Putty, and transfer files to and from the target PC with WinSCP over FTP.
Conclusion1:58

Requirements

A Windows 10 PC
Basic knowledge of C++ can be helpful, but is not mandatory.
To run the applications on the target IoT device, a Raspberry Pi is used in this course as well as an LED, a push button, some jumper wires, and a breadboard for prototyping.

Description

This course gives an introduction to all needed topics for getting started with the application development for Windows 10 IoT Core devices. It is the course that I would like to have had when I started to get interest in Windows 10 IoT Core application development. Throughout the course you learn

how to set up all needed tools like on your developer PC,
how to set up a target device, which is a Raspberry Pi in this course.

Furthermore, you learn

the basics of programming foreground and background applications in C++,
and how to package your application for distribution.

The final section of the course explains the usage of typical developer tools like SSH or FTP that will be helpful throughout your development activities.

The whole course is organized into individual sections that have a dedicated focus on one of the topics learning topics mentioned above. Each lecture within the section starts with a clear description of the lecture goal and is followed by a compact video presentation and description. All the videos are prepared such that they could be followed with you sitting in front of your developer machine and replicating the presented content. Each lecture closes with a brief summary.

Since Windows 10 IoT Core is targeted to embedded devices, part of the course makes use of some electronic components and circuitry. These are

a Raspberry Pi, SD card, power supply, network access,
a breadboard, an LED, a push button, some jumper wires.

To learn the basics about Windows 10 IoT Core application development it is not absolutely necessary to have these components at hand. However, to get most out of this course I recommend to have these components at hand.

Thanks a lot for your interest in this course. Let me know if you have any questions and hope to see you in the course then!

Florian

Who this course is for:

Novices in the field of Windows 10 IoT development, who want to get an introduction and kick start for own software projects using C++.
This course is not for expert Windows IoT Core developers.

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Introduction1 lecture • 3min

Installing Tools and Configuration5 lectures • 13min

Setting up a Device6 lectures • 15min

Programming: Hello Windows IoT World!10 lectures • 1hr 40min

Helpful Development Tools5 lectures • 22min

Conclusion1 lecture • 3min

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