Gadgeteer without designer

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I have a FEZ Cerbuino bee and use VS2010 Pro. If I create a new Gadgeteer project, Visual Studio hangs for 2 minutes, giving a message about loading toolbox. I read about this error and some ways to solve it. However, I will not use the designer at all. Is there a way of just having a template like FEZ Panda? I just want to write code, not draw lines…

Thanks,

Erik

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Sounds like you need to reinstall everything (VS 2010 + Microsoft NETMF/Gadgeteer bits + GHI bits). However, to answer your question… It’s certainly possible to create all files by hand in Notepad or any editor but it will cost you time. If you don’t want to create a Gadgeteer project then you can always create a plain NETMF project if you want to get familiar with writing native NETMF projects. You will lose Gadgeteer module driver support in this case, though.

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You can also declare your own modules in Program.cs file.
e.g.:


private SomeModule module;

void ProgramStarted()
{
  module = new SomeModule(3);  // parameter is socket number/s

  Debug.Print("Program Started");
}
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@ erikhaverkamp - How old is the PC with the slow loading of the toolbox? Processor? Memory?