Raspberry Pi 3 Mono C# Bluez

Question

Using Raspberry Pi 3 and it's built-in BLE chip I was able to install a Bluez nodejs example app to make my Raspi3 a BLE Peripheral, and I was able to read and write to the Gatt and echo information to my BLE Central Client.

However, now that I am trying to replace the nodejs BLE Perhipheral solution on my Raspi3 to use Mono.BlueZ, and dbus-sharp mono libraries to make a mono app that would make my Raspi3 a BLE Perhipheral.

Immediately, I am running into issues compiling

I am compiling in VS 2017 RC as a 3.5 project.
dbus-sharp project I am trying to compile: https://github.com/brookpatten/dbus-sharp

Supporting Mono Bluez file that I will eventually use: https://github.com/brookpatten/Mono.BlueZ

1. Is there something that I need to do to actually compile the project?
2. Is there any additional documentation or examples of how to get this compiled?

Answer 1

I'm also trying to work with this project.

I managed to build and debug it like this (on Debian 8):

I installed the latest version of Mono (5.0) and could build the project by just typing msbuild in the project root. It also works from within VS Code and I can also debug the project after creating launch.json and tasks.json files.

However, when I debug Mono.BlueZ.Console, it hangs right away on this line:

var manager = GetObject (Service, ObjectPath.Root);