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Bluetooth

  • Use Microsoft Bluetooth Stack on Toshiba M200

    I was asked how to replace the default Toshiba stack installed on the M200 with the Windows stack (to allow for .NET programmability). Luckily it’s easy to do and Toshiba include the necessary bits on the hard disk. First you… Continue reading

  • HTC Wizard Uses Microsoft Bluetooth Stack

    From Jason Langridge: “It’s using the Microsoft Bluetooth stack”. Excellent, another device added to the growing list. Continue reading

  • New Personal Area Networking Libraries

    The Bluetooth.NET library has now reached it’s v1.5 milestone and is now part of the 32feet.NET suite. It joins an updated version of my IrDA library for the desktop which now adds some features (borrowed from the Bluetooth developments) so… Continue reading

  • Bluetooth COM Ports On Windows CE

    Greg Scott from the Windows CE Networking team has posted an interesting article on how Bluetooth Virtual COM ports are implemented on Windows CE. Alongside the native code to setup a port, there are some details on the improvements in… Continue reading

  • Bluetooth Socket Options on Windows XP

    Windows XP supports a much smaller number of socket options for Bluetooth than Windows CE, although it generally provides alternative ways to get/set those properties. The table below shows those that are supported on XP and how they relate to… Continue reading

  • Bluetooth v1.4

    Today I gave a session at Slide5 on the latest version of the Bluetooth library – v1.4. Key changes for this release were some bug fixes to the samples, increased functionality for the desktop side (ability to bond devices) and… Continue reading

  • Interesting Bluetooth Project

    One of our forum members posted about an open source social networking project which uses the Bluetooth.NET library. The project is created by Software Greenhouse which is a joint venture between Microsoft India and Cynapse. Their initial prototype release and… Continue reading

  • Bluetooth v1.3

    Today I’ve completed the v1.3 release of Bluetooth. This pulls together the latest binaries, source code, samples and help documentation into a single package. There are few differences in the public interface from previous releases, notably the BluetoothSerialPort class has been fixed… Continue reading

  • Change Device Assigned to Outbound COM Port

    With the Microsoft Bluetooth stack a single outbound virtual COM port is supported, to set this up you have to bond with the device. If you want to switch between several devices at different times this is awkward. You can however… Continue reading

  • Bluetooth Comparison

    Now that the dust has settled on MEDC, I’m thinking about how to move forward with the Bluetooth library. I had essentially put development on hold when I first heard that Microsoft were preparing their own source package prior to MEDC.… Continue reading