Chapter 3. Windows IoT programming essentials

Raspberry Pi 2 and Pi 3 are equipped with High-Definition Media Interface (HDMI), designed for transferring audio and video data. Therefore, you can connect RPi2 or RPi3 to any external display compatible with HDMI. This gives you the ability to develop applications with user interfaces such that the untethered data received from sensors is processed in the background and then visualized using XAML or HTML/CSS controls.

The Universal Windows Platform (UWP) packs plenty of API and language-specific extensions for performing background operations. However, developing multithreaded applications brings additional complications. For example, you can’t get access to UI elements from background threads without ...

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