Re: IPAQs and Bluetooth and Visual Studio 2005 beta 2

Hi,
Thanks for the feedback. Managed to find an evaluation download of the
Widcomm stack SDK from high-point.com - the full version is a bit expensive
at $750. It requires developemnt using C++ and seems to work OK. VS 2005
works but I find an undue number of unneccesary changes making it very
unfriendly for old C++ programmers that are used to DEVSTUDIO v 6 as the
whole GUI has been changed: WHY? VS 2005 is also somewhat unreliable and
lacks some features e.g. removing an eventhandler once you have added it. It
is not unstable, it doesn't crash, just doesn't do what is required. Pocket
PC 2003 apps need to be compiled twice and the second compile works, but the
first doesn't (well stange).
The PocketPC interface works nicely, when it does, and makes dev a breeze.
--
TheDinosaur


"Darren Beckley" wrote:

> Here are some links to get you started:
>
> Differences between WinCE and Windows Mobile:
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=111fe6d5-b0e1-4887-8070-be828e50faa9&displaylang=en
> http://blogs.msdn.com/marcpe/archive/2005/04/22/410778.aspx
> http://blogs.msdn.com/marcpe/archive/2005/05/04/414644.aspx
>
> How to tell which Bluetooth stack you have:
> http://blog.opennetcf.org/pfoot/PermaLink,guid,7311b52f-185c-4657-8d6d-beb8e8e32989.aspx
>
> Note that if you don't have a device running the Microsoft Bluetooth stack,
> the information in MSDN about Bluetooth on WinCE/Windows Mobile will not be
> relevent. Try searching the Pocket PC newsgroup archives at
> groups.google.com for more info about Broadcom/Widcom stack support (I think
> you have to buy an SDK).
>
> Development tools for Windows Mobile:
> https://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2005/06/02/424382.aspx
>
> With the currently released tools, you use eVC++ 4.0 for native development
> and VS.NET 2003 for managed development. VS 2005 will provide both native
> and managed development tools.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Darren
>
> "gerhard50" <gerhard50@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:DFFF7A70-F325-4657-BA65-F2E92F3A3EBC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hi, I am new to the PDA world and very confused: Windows CE, windows
> > Mobile
> > and Pocket PC. What are the dofferences? I have an IPAQ hx2110 that runs
> > Pocket PC 2003 and I am not sure which software to use. It seems to work
> > as
> > far as the visual interface is concerned when I select Pocket PC 2003 as
> > the
> > target(using Visual Studion 2005 beta 2), but whenever I try to program
> > the
> > Bluetooth interface (using the suggested socket interface) and I try to do
> > device discovery using WSALookupServiceBegin/Next, I get a 10050(network
> > down
> > even though the BT network is definitely up) error and cannot progress
> > beyong
> > this point. I have successfully done a WSAStartup() etc. It seems this
> > might
> > be because the PDA runs a widcomm stack and is not supported by the MS
> > stack
> > interface in Visual Studio 2005 libraries.Can anyone please advise me on
> > whether I should use eMbedded Visual C++ 4.0 or whether it is possible to
> > use
> > Visual Studio 2005 with a different SDK and, if so, where I can get this
> > SDK
> > from. Alternatively, will the BluetoothFindFirstRadio() call work, even
> > though it is part of the Platform SDK for Windows, as both run a Widcomm
> > stack(I believe), but where will it find the correct binary to use on
> > Pocket
> > PC 2003. Any advice will be much appreciated.
> > --
> > TheDinosaur
>
>
>
.

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