Get started with Meadow.Windows
- Visual Studio 2022
- Visual Studio Code
Step 1 - Install .NET Runtime
Download and install the latest version of the .NET runtime.
Step 2 - Install Visual Studio
Download and Install Visual Studio 2022 for Windows to prepare your development machine. Community edition will work fine.
Step 3 - Add Meadow Visual Studio Extension
Open Visual Studio’s Extensions Manager and install the VS 2022 Tools for Meadow Extension.
Step 4 - Create your first Meadow application
In Visual Studio, open the Create a new project window. When you search for Meadow, you will see a list of project templates, click on Meadow.Desktop App (Wilderness Labs):
This project creates a Meadow.Desktop app that has a Windows Forms (WinForms) window showing a Hello World text using MicroLayout.
Step 5 - Run a Meadow Application
Right-click the new project and select Set as Startup project
Step 6 - Check out additional samples
You can check more samples in our Meadow.Desktop.Samples GitHub repo.
Step 1 - Install .NET Runtime
Download and install the latest version of the .NET runtime.
Step 2 - Install Visual Studio Code
Download and Install Visual Studio Code to prepare your development machine.
Step 3 - Install Meadow Project Templates
Open a console window and enter the following command to install a list of Meadow project templates:
dotnet new install WildernessLabs.Meadow.Template
When installed, you’ll see a list of templates available:
The following template packages will be installed:
WildernessLabs.Meadow.Template
Success: WildernessLabs.Meadow.Template installed the following templates:
Template Name Short Name Language Tags
----------------------------- ----------------- -------------- --------------
Meadow Core-Compute App CoreComputeModule [C#],F#,VB.NET Meadow/Console
Meadow F7 Feather App F7Feather [C#],F#,VB.NET Meadow/Console
Meadow Library Library [C#],F#,VB.NET Meadow/Library
Meadow Project Lab App ProjectLab [C#] Meadow/Console
Meadow.Desktop App Desktop [C#] Meadow/Console
Meadow.Linux Jetson Nano App JetsonNano [C#] Meadow/Console
Meadow.Linux Raspberry Pi App RaspberryPi [C#] Meadow/Console
Meadow.Linux reTerminal App reTerminal [C#] Meadow/Console
Step 4 - Create your first Meadow application
Lets verify everything is set up by deploying your first Meadow application.
Open VSCode in a new Terminal within enter the following command to create a new Meadow.Desktop project:
dotnet new Desktop --name WindowsDemo --Framework net8.0-windows
This Meadow.Desktop application opens a 320x240 pixel WinForms window saying Hello, World
using MicroLayout.
Step 5 - Run a Meadow Application
With no code changes, let's run this app on your machine.
In VSCode, open a terminal inside the project folder, build the project with the command:
dotnet build
And finally to run the Meadow application, use the command:
dotnet run
A WinForm window should show up in the center of the screen saying Hello, World
, like below:
Step 6 - Check out additional samples
You can check more samples in our Meadow.Desktop.Samples GitHub repo.