Creating a first example

After completing the installation of Visual Studio and Windows IoT, we will move on to an example for testing our Raspberry Pi 3 and integrating everything we installed on the board. Let's take a look at this example:

We need to follow these steps:

1. Install Microsoft Visual Studio; this step was performed in the previous section.
2. Install the Windows IoT project templates; go to https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=847472.

Writing our first application

We will create a simple blinking LED and connect an LED to your Windows 10 IoT Core device.

Loading the project in Visual Studio

You can find the source code by navigating to samples/develop/.

Note

Be aware that the GPIO APIs are only available on Windows 10 IoT Core, so this sample cannot run on your desktop.

Connecting the LED to your Windows IoT device

In order to make the connections, we will need some materials:

• An LED (any color)
• A 220 Ω resistor
• A breadboard and a couple of wires

 

Hardware pins

In this figure, we can see the...