API Reference for .NET Micro Framework

The class library for the Microsoft® .NET Micro Framework SDK contains some namespaces that match those in the desktop version of .NET, and some unique namespaces.

In This Section

• Dpws.Client Namespace
  Creates Devices Profile for Web Services (DPWS) clients.
• Dpws.Client.Discovery Namespace
  Handles client probe and resolve requests, which are WS-Discovery messages sent by a client to search for services on the network.
• Dpws.Client.Eventing Namespace
  Contains classes for subscribing to events.
• Dpws.Client.Transport Namespace
  Contains classes used to send and receive HTTP requests.
• Dpws.Device Namespace
  The Dpws.Device namespace provides a represention of the DPWS device stack, and classes that contain its properties.
• Dpws.Device.Services Namespace
  Provides classes for working with hosted services and hosted services' event sources.
• Dpws.Device.Discovery Namespace
  The Dpws.Device.Discovery namespace provides discovery clients for sending Hello and Bye WS-Discovery messages.
• Microsoft.SPOT Namespace
  Contains the main types for .NET Micro Framework.
• Microsoft.SPOT.Cryptography Namespace
  Provides tools for encoding and decoding data.
• Microsoft.SPOT.Hardware Namespace
  Provides hardware features for developing embedded device firmware.
• Microsoft.SPOT.Hardware.UsbClient Namespace
  Provides applications with tools to connect devices over a USB port.
• Microsoft.SPOT.Ink Namespace
  Represents the collected strokes of ink within an ink space.
• Microsoft.SPOT.Input Namespace
  Supports the Windows® Presentation Foundation (WPF) input system.
• Microsoft.SPOT.IO Namespace
  Handles input and output (I/O) specific to the .NET Micro Framework.
• Microsoft.SPOT.Messaging Namespace
  Provides tools for sending and receiving messages across a network.
• Microsoft.SPOT.Net.NetworkInformation Namespace
  Provides information about network interfaces and enables your applications to control them.
• Microsoft.SPOT.Net.Security Namespace
  Provides network streams for secure communications between hosts.
• Microsoft.SPOT.Presentation Namespace
  Displays and arranges graphical user interface items, such as a window and its child elements.
• Microsoft.SPOT.Presentation.Controls Namespace
  Contains types for creating elements (controls) that enable a user to interact with an application.
• Microsoft.SPOT.Presentation.Media Namespace
  Contains types for drawing and manipulating images.
• Microsoft.SPOT.Presentation.Shapes Namespace
  Contains types for drawing two-dimensional geometric shapes on hardware display devices.
• Microsoft.SPOT.Time Namespace
  Provides tools for time sync service.
• Microsoft.SPOT.Touch Namespace
  Contains types for working with a touch panel, either with fingers or a stylus.
• System Namespace
  Contains fundamental classes and base types that define commonly used value and reference data types, events and event handlers, interfaces, attributes, and processing exceptions.
• System.Collections Namespace
  Contains types that define collections of objects.
• System.ComponentModel Namespace
  Contains classes for defining run-time and design-time behavior of components and controls. Includes base classes and interfaces for implementing attributes and type converters, binding to data sources, and licensing components.
• System.Diagnostics Namespace
  Contains types for interacting with system processes, event logs, and performance counters.
• System.Ext Namespace
  Contains classes that define commonly-used value and reference data types, events and event handlers, interfaces, attributes, and processing exceptions. Also supports data type conversion, method parameter manipulation, mathematics, remote and local program invocation, application environment management, and supervision of managed and unmanaged applications.
• System.Ext.Net Namespace
  Provides a simple programming interface for many protocols used on networks today.
• System.Ext.Net.Sockets Namespace
  Contains classes for providing User Datagram Protocol (UDP) network services, including a class for working with the underlying stream, and a class for joining and dropping multicast groups.
• System.Ext.Text Namespace
  Provides a class that represents a mutable string of characters.
• System.Ext.Xml Namespace
  Provides support for writing XML.
• System.Globalization Namespace
  Contains types that define culture-related information, for writing globalized (internationalized) applications.
• System.IO Namespace
  Contains types that facilitate reading from and writing to data streams.
• System.IO.Ports Namespace
  Provides a managed API for accessing serial ports.
• System.Net Namespace
  Supports network-related items such as endpoints, IP addresses, and hosts.
• System.Net.Sockets Namespace
  Provides types for bidirectional, interprocess communication over a network.
• System.Reflection Namespace
  Provides a managed view of loaded types, methods, and fields. Enables you to create and invoke types dynamically.
• System.Resources Namespace
  Provides easy run-time access to culture-specific resources used in .NET Micro Framework applications.
• System.Runtime.CompilerServices Namespace
  Provides functionality for compiler writers using managed code to specify metadata attributes that affect the run-time behavior of the common language runtime (CLR).
• System.Runtime.InteropServices Namespace
  Contains types that support interoperation and Platform Invoke services.
• System.Runtime.Remoting Namespace
  Provides support for standard .NET remoting.
• System.Text Namespace
  Contains classes for encoding strings.
• System.Threading Namespace
  Provides types that handle threading.
• System.Xml Namespace
  Provides support for processing XML.
• Ws.ServiceModel Namespace
  Contains Attribute classes that define aspects of the Web Services service model.
• Ws.Services Namespace
  Provides classes for collections of service endpoints managed by a transport host, and the operations they expose.
• Ws.Services.Binding Namespace
  Contains types for binding to the Web services channel.
• Ws.Services.Discovery Namespace
  Contains the Discovery service types and values that are common to all Devices Profile for Web Services (DPWS)1.0 and 1.1 compliant implementations.
• Ws.Services.Faults Namespace
  Contains types for building Web service faults.
• Ws.Services.Mtom Namespace
  Contains classes for working with MTOM parts in SOAP messages.
• Ws.Services.Serialization Namespace
  Contains classes for serializing and deserializing objects when using Web services.
• Ws.Services.Soap Namespace
  Contains types for parsing SOAP messages.
• Ws.Services.Transport.HTTP Namespace
  Contains classes for sending and processing HTTP request/response messages.
• Ws.Services.Utilities Namespace
  Provides classes for displaying debug output, representing time durations, and validating URIs based on UUIDs.
• Ws.Services.WsaAddressing Namespace
  Contains classes that process WS-Addressing header information.
• Ws.Services.Xml Namespace
  Contains classes used to process XML.
• Ws.SvcImporter Namespace
  Contains classes that create a service description from a WSDL file.