Hello, Meadow.Desktop on Windows

Visual Studio 2022

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 Meadow.Desktop application creates a 320x240 pixel window saying Hello, World 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.Samples GitHub repo.

Visual Studio Code

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  meadow-ccm          [C#],F#,VB.NET  Meadow/Console
Meadow Desktop App       meadow-desktop      [C#]            Meadow/Console
Meadow F7 Feather App    meadow-feather      [C#],F#,VB.NET  Meadow/Console
Meadow Jetson Nano App   meadow-jetson-nano  [C#]            Meadow/Console
Meadow Library           meadow-library      [C#],F#,VB.NET  Meadow/Library
Meadow Project Lab App   meadow-project-lab  [C#]            Meadow/Console
Meadow Raspberry Pi App  meadow-rpi          [C#]            Meadow/Console
Meadow reTerminal App    meadow-reterminal   [C#]            Meadow/Console
Meadow StartKit App      meadow-startkit     [C#]            Meadow/App/StartKit

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 meadow-desktop --name WindowsDemo

This Meadow.Desktop application opens a 320x240 pixel 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.Samples GitHub repo.