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  • Bluetooth and Windows 11

    It’s still early days for Windows 11 but pre-release API documentation is available on Microsoft Docs and it gives some hints of new functionality for developers:- BluetoothLEDevice gains functionality to request preferred connection parameters. These include minimum and maximum connection… Continue reading

  • Bluetooth Virtual Sniffer for Windows

    I only just found out about this but Microsoft released a packet sniffer for Bluetooth on Windows 10 back in February. This is incredibly useful for debugging and is something I’ve been craving for some time. Previously I’ve been able… Continue reading

  • New Windows Phone App

    Okay, now I’ve drawn you in with a click-bait headline I need to clarify a little! For some time now Windows 10 has had a tightly integrated app called Phone Link (previously Your Phone) which allows you to interact with… Continue reading

  • What’s in a BluetoothLEDevice.Name

    I’ve noticed an odd behaviour when creating a BluetoothLEDevice from a found device id. I’m not doing anything special, just retrieving paired devices and then trying to access the relevant BluetoothLEDevice. In common with all Windows device searches (whether by… Continue reading

  • Wrapping up 2020

    I haven’t posted as much as I would have liked this year, because “reasons” but I thought I would put together a short post to wrap up some of the things that have been going on behind the scenes. 32feet… Continue reading

  • Bluetooth Virtual COM Ports

    I was thinking about a comment on a Gist I wrote some time ago and thought I’d written a blog post on the topic, but when I couldn’t find any sign of it I decided to start from scratch as… Continue reading

  • Asyncify a method and event response

    It’s common to come across a pattern where you call a synchronous method to kick off an activity then await an event which gives you the result (or an error). In the process of building 32feet‘s Bluetooth LE library this… Continue reading

  • Changes coming in Xamarin Android BluetoothSocket

    While debugging an app I came across this new message in the Output window:- “Not wrapping exception of type Java.IO.IOException from method `Read`. This will change in a future release.” When working with an RFComm service on Android you use… Continue reading

  • WPF Activity in Xamarin Forms

    I’ve recently been working on extending an existing product written in Xamarin Forms to Windows desktop and this has meant learning a lot more about the WPF implementation. Originally Xamarin Forms was created for mobile platforms such as Android and… Continue reading

    WPF Activity in Xamarin Forms

  • New Year, New 32feet.NET Library

    I’ve been working away on the Bluetooth code for some time. I’d been meaning to modernise the code and build with .NET Standard and NuGet in mind and ideally support more platforms. However the project has stopped and started a… Continue reading

    New Year, New 32feet.NET Library