Microsoft .NET Micro Framework, developed by Microsoft Corporation, is a lightweight managed runtime and class library designed for resource-constrained embedded devices. It allows developers to write firmware in C# using a familiar subset of the .NET Framework and deploy it directly to 32-bit microcontrollers that often run without a traditional operating system.
The framework includes a compact common language runtime with garbage collection, threading, exceptions, and a streamlined base class library. It integrates with Visual Studio for an efficient edit-build-debug workflow, supporting step-through debugging, breakpoints, and deployment over USB or serial connections. A broad set of APIs provides access to common peripherals and protocols—such as GPIO, I2C, SPI, UART, PWM, ADC, timers, basic file systems, and networking—so you can build connected devices without writing low-level drivers from scratch.
Well-suited for IoT nodes, sensors, wearables, and small consumer or industrial products, .NET Micro Framework favors developer productivity, memory safety, and maintainability with managed code over hard real-time performance.
Microsoft .NET Micro Framework is developed by Microsoft and is used by 4 users of Software Informer. The most popular versions of this product among our users are: 1.1, 4.1, 4.3, 4.3 beta and 4.4. The names of program executable files are MFDeploy.exe, SolutionWizard.exe.
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