From Jason Langridge: “It’s using the Microsoft Bluetooth stack”. Excellent, another device added to the growing list.
Category: Bluetooth
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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 provides a superset of IrDA functionality on either full or compact frameworks. On top of […]
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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 Windows Mobile 5.0 which now includes UI options to set both incoming and outgoing ports […]
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 their Windows CE equivalent. Notice that the only one which behaves the same on both […]
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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 service discovery (as yet XP only). I’ve also tidied up some of the code, in […]
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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 source code can be downloaded by registering at the Software Greenhouse site. The software will allow […]
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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 and re-introduced, also the BondedDevices property for retrieving previously bonded devices from the registry. I’ve […]
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 alter the registry settings between connections to switch devices. 1. Setup an Outbound COM port […]
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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. When it was released, I was a little disappointed in their functionality (and compatibility) so […]
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Bluetooth Library (March Edition)
To facilitate using the library in Visual Studio 2005 Betas I have made a few minor updates to the managed Bluetooth library, new/fixed in this release:- Now works under .NETCF 1.0, .NETCF 2.0, .NET 1.1 .NET 2.0 (Not tested under the .NET 1.0 desktop framework but should work). On Windows CE remote name lookups are […]
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