Mastering Internet of Things

Initializing the application

Before we do any communication with the Arduino, we need to initialize the application. We do this by finding the OnLaunched method in the App.xml.cs file. After the Window.Current.Activate() call, we make a call to our Init() method where we set up the application.

   Window.Current.Activate(); 
   Task.Run((Action)this.Init); 

We execute our initialization method from the thread pool, instead of the standard thread. This is done by calling Task.Run(), defined in the System.Threading.Tasks namespace. The reason for this is that we want to avoid locking the standard thread. Later, there will be a lot of asynchronous calls made during initialization. To avoid problems, we should execute all these from the thread pool, ...