Shared Phidgets Toolkit
Bauhaus-University Weimar (Germany) and University of Calgary (Canada)

Development of Appliances

This template includes the basic class framework implementation for the development of information appliances using distributed sensor and actuator hardware. The ApplianceForm.cs implements the Appliance base class, and therefore already includes the necesssary network and connection classes.

Getting started with the development:

Open the ApplianceForm.cs file of this solution.
The Shared Phidgets AddIn (can be found in the "Tools" menu of Visual Studio) allows the exploration of the available distributed hardware components, and can automatically add hardware proxy objects and graphical skins to the project.
Alternatively, any Shared Phidgets controls from the Visual Studio toolbox can be added to the form: select the control from the toolbox, and click on the form to add the control. The specific properties can be changed in the Visual Studio property explorer window.

Additional information about the development with the Shard Phidgets toolkit is available in the GroupLab Cookbook:
http://grouplab.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/cookbook/