Installing a Library Package in Visual Studio

I'm creating a WPF project in Visual Studio. 

 I want to install this library to use in my project: 

 The documentation tells me: 

 So, what is CLI? 

 CLI is command line interface. Let's try it. 

1. Open PowerShell 

2. Navigate to your project file location.  Not the one with say, “sln” but the inner one with the .*proj file (eg *.csproj) Navigation in Powershell: use “dir” to list the contents of the directory use “cd ” to navigate into a directory use tab to autocomplete a directory name, or cycle through directory names. 

3. Type or Paste the .NET CLI installer command and press enter: 

4. This project does not support command prompt add package.

So now what? 

Visual Studio actually uses NuGet 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/quickstart/install-and-use-a-package-in-visual-studio 

Open your Visual Studio Project 

In the Solution Explorer, right-click "References" and choose "Manage NuGet pacakges" 

 Browse for the package you want to install 

 

Click Install 

 OK and Accept 

 Build the project and verify no errors. 

Package installed!

STM32Cube IDE - Getting Started

STM32CubeIDE is a combo IDE of CubeMX and a stadard development environment with debugging tools.  

1. Register for the ST site.  It's required if you want to download basically anything.  Keep yourself logged in.  

2. Download the IDE from the page https://www.st.com/en/development-tools/stm32cubeide.html 

3. I recommend that you have a folder on your PC to act as a local repo for anything you push up to Git - but the IDE also requires a Workspace.  I find the local repo doubles for that workspace, and I can create multiple workspaces in/out/around that folder.

Choose that for your workspace.

4. New STM32 Project:

Select the board/MCU you are using to acquire the necessary (desirable) initialization code and drivers for your selected hardware.  

5. Next will take some time to generate those files.

6. Project configuration: Name it.

Selecting SMT32Cube will bring you to the graphical pin-configuration tool.  It also means that you are restricted as to where you can place your code so it doesn't get overwritten by the CUBE tool.

5. Finish will generate a code base.

6. Build the project to ensure it compiles and setup is valid

Does the console throw any warnings?

Did you get an "FPU" warning?

Set the Floating-point unit settings to "None"

7. Try the code out on your board.

8a. Create a debug profile

Some MCUs support Serial Wire Viewer (SWV), and some don't.  Namely, the 4 M0s do not.  If your MCU/Board/Debugger does, you should enable the SWV here.  If yours doesn't, you will have to use openOCD and SemiHosting to see 'printf' statements.

8b. In the debugger settings, select "OpenOCD"

Go to Startup, and in the 'Run Commands" type:

Apply and close.

Right click on the project ->Properties

In your code, make sure you include

	extern void initialise_monitor_handles(void);
	int main(void)
	{
	initialise_monitor_handles();
	//your code
	}

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Lastly, to use semihosting you must exclude syscalls.c from the build.

Right click on syscalls.c -> Properties

Apply & close.

Now when you run Debug:

and when you press "Run"

Useful?  Tips?  Drop it in the comments.