Raspberry Pi2 Windows 10 IOT core and Visual Basic 2015

Question

Is it possible to run Visual Studio on a Raspberry PI 2 with Windows IOT core on it?

I want to creating create a touch-screen (HDMI with RPI2) application on Windows 10, which will be used to take the orders of customers and transfer the order information to another Raspberry PI running MySQL server.

I was able to implement this on PC but I want to implement it on RPI. Is it possible or should I use Gambas for that purpose?

Answer 1

I am working on Official RPi 7" Touchscreen(https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/the-eagerly-awaited-raspberry-pi-display/) for Windows IoT with a community member. This display works with RPi2 + Windwos IoT but touch won't works. We are working to get support for touch and got partial success to retrieve touch data but we still require 1-2 months. Hope that Microsoft will soon release support for Official RPi 7" Touchscreen in Windwos IoT.

Once we got success, will report back here with source code.

Update (15-DEC-2015)
Right now, RPi2 (Windows IoT) supports a touchscreen display from chalkboard electronics only. Setup instruction for this touchscreen is given at ms-iot Website's Miscellaneous section.

Answer 2

you might try to use the driver provided by MySQL

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-net/en/connector-net-rt.html

But my suggestion would to create an UWP app for your client Raspberry Pi running Windows 10 IoT Core and a web service to expose your MySQL database server on the other Raspberry Pi running a Linux distribution. So the key is to make your client consume a web service. This way, you can change your service location or database format freely.