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  • Changing the Start Up App on Windows 10 IoT Core

    August 19th, 2016 in Blog, IoT, PowerShell, UWP, Visual Studio, Windows

    Changing the start up application on your IoT device running Windows IoT Core seems to be a common requirement once the device is out in the field so I hope this post exploring a few different ways of doing this will be of value to people. To clarify the behaviour we will achieve below is from device power on our Windows 10 IoT Core operating system will boot up. But instead of starting the default application which is originally named…

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  • Installing Windows 10 IoT Core On Your Raspberry Pi

    August 15th, 2016 in Blog, IoT, Raspberry Pi, Windows

    At a recent SQL Server User Group in Birmingham I presented an end to end IoT solution streaming data from sensors on a Raspberry Pi 3. What followed the talk was a very simple question from an audience member asking basically; how do you get started with doing this? It then occurred to me that I had missed out the vital information for getting the Windows 10 IoT Core operating system (OS) onto the device. In the following article I hope to…

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  • Windows IoT UWP Tasks Tickers and Threading

    July 22nd, 2016 in Azure, Blog, C#, IoT, JSON, UWP, Windows

    Upon entering the IoT revolution a few things immediately became apparent; We now had the ability to collect and handle more sensor data than we’d ever before possibly conceived. These sensors and there data will/are going to change the very way we live… Not convinced by this one? Talk to anybody that has a Fitbit attached to their wrist about how many steps they do each day! More relevant to this article. The procedural tools we…

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  • Controlling Your Windows 10 IoT Core Device

    June 16th, 2016 in Blog, IoT, PowerShell, Raspberry Pi, Windows

    If like me you have a several Raspberry Pi’s doing different things and running different operating systems controlling them can sometimes be a bit of a challenge, especially with a wealth of remote control protocols and command line tools to choose from. In this post I’m specifically exploring the different ways to control your Raspberry Pi running Windows 10 IoT Core. The thing that surprised me…

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