Moving from 4.1 to 4.2 for Cobra

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I’m trying to build my first Cobra II app w/ SDK4.2. Up to now, it’s been 4.1 Panda II apps. I’ve installed 4.2 and updated the loader and firmware on my Cobra II that’s been sitting on the shelf. Pinging works.

When I fire up VS 2010 these two Cobra app templates are listed:
FEZ Cobra Console Application
FEZ Cobra Windows Application

Selecting Console App, I switch from Emulator to USB and the Cobra is found.

However, when I build the console app it uses SDK 4.1. When I specify 4.2 as the target framework (under Properties) I need to exit VS and restart for jt to build with 4.2 properly. So question #1 is, how do I get VS to use 4.2 for a Cobra app initially and avoid restarting VS?

Further, when I attempt to run the console app template, which includes

using GHIElectronics.NETMF.FEZ;

(the template blinks the onboard LED) I cannot find the appropriate assembly. That file is not on my computer. Assemblies in 4.2 seem to start with GHI. and not GHIElectronics… There is also a Premium library and a OSHW library.

Am I using an old template? Do I need to set something in VS to default to 4.2?

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I suspect you don’t have the (4.1) GHI SDK installed correctly. The “old” templates that were on 4.1 that included the “shortcut” templates for individual boards went away a while ago. I have VS2012 not 2010, but I have the latest 4.1 SDK, and those templates do not appear. You can and should just use the netmf console application template and add references yourself.

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Right. Yes, loading the (evidently) old template seems to have caused the build to use 4.1, at least just specifying a console app works fine w/ 4.2. Easy enough. Thanks, Brett.