Is there a way to connect a Windows CE 6.0 device to a Windows 7 desktop PC without using activesync
There's no way to just connect the two and have them communicate without some form of driver or application being written. ActiveSync/WMDC is what Microsoft shipped "out of the box". If you want to do what it does, then you have to replace it with another app or protocol, and it generally requires you to do both sides - a device app and a PC app.
What that would look like depends on how you intend to connect. If you want to use USB, then you can likely use the CE RNDIS driver, so that the device shows up as an NDIS device, then use the desktop APIs to send network traffic to and from the device. Of course you'll have to put an app or service on the device that knows how to take commands and do something with them.
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apologies if the question is quite basic, I am inexperienced in USB programming and I might be missing some conceptual detail here.
For our industrial solution we are supposed to provide communication between our PC wpf application and windows embedded HH 8.1 application. Ideally we would like this to be over USB.
I see a lot of sample code to connect directly to USB devices from host role.
However in our case the Windows Embedded HH device (Panasonic FZ-E1) will have the device role listening. I could not find any way to register to raw data sent from our PC application via USB events. I examined UMDF (user mode driver framework) which has examples about writing drivers for usb devices, yet it seems like it is for device manufacturers and us not being the manufacturer for Panasonic HH we should not/cannot use our own driver and we have to use the WinUSB driver it already has in place.
Windows Embedded 8.1 HH has some USB apis unlike windows phone, yet all the functionality provided in the API seems like connecting to external USB devices with the host role. When we use USBlyzer I see that there is some USB traffic towards the device from the PC so it looks it should be possible for the HH to have the listening device role. What am I missing here, any ideas?
Any help/direction is greatly appreciated.
P.S: I also tried windows connectivity api examining the source code of windows phone power tools yet it seems like the the dlls for addon packages here to handle transfer via agents is not there for newer versions of windows phone anymore.
I am writing a BT app on an android to connect to a lab device/hardware. At the present time I have a device on loan. However it is not possible for me to always have one while I am developing for it, (commuting, out of town, etc) Therefore I am creating an emulator for it and will run that emulator on my Windows desktop so that my Android client code can make connections to it.
The android code is built with .NET/xamarin and works fine connecting to the real device.
I am comfortable with C++ or C# on the desktop.
I have found this code http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/252882/Bluetooth-Server-Programming-on-Windows online to create and accept BT connections. it looks like a very good start for what I wish to do - which is build a state machine/emulator to mimic the real device. However I have been unable to connect my android device to it.
Note - the connection is a serial port connection. (the UUI coming from the android device is the "well known" serial port connection ("00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805F9B34FB")
I am not sure how to configure the windows 7 desktop and bluetooth services to allow this server/emulator program to accept connections.
I have paired the devices, but unable to connect.
How can I accept incoming Bluetooth serial connections in the C++ or C# code running on Win7 desktop?
If you want to do low level stuff like establish a connection via bluetooth through a C# app then you will need to access the bluetooth stack via its API. If your device is running the Microsofts Bluetooth Stack then you can look at 32feet.net's managed wrapper for Microsofts Bluetooth API. If you have the Widcomm stack then you will have to locate Widcomm's API for it.
To access the microsoft bluetooth stack, you can use the BthUtil.dll.
BthUtil.dll is an unmanaged dll which is part of the Microsoft Bluetooth stack. It's typically utilised for tasks such as turning the bluetooth radio on or off via a function called BthSetMode
(see MSDN for documentation - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/EN-US/library/aa456007.aspx)
You can check the following links:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn05CU3mxzo
Also, check the 32feet.Net
A Brief description of 32feet.Net
32feet.NET is a shared-source project to make personal area networking technologies such as Bluetooth, Infrared (IrDA) and more, easily accessible from .NET code.
Supports desktop, mobile or embedded systems.
32feet.NET is free for commercial or non-commercial use.
If you use the binaries you can just use the library as-is, if you make modifications to the source you need to include the 32feet.NET License.txt document and ensure the file headers are not modified/removed. The project currently consists of the following libraries:-
Bluetooth
IrDA
Object Exchange
Bluetooth support requires a device with either the Microsoft, Widcomm, BlueSoleil, or Stonestreet One Bluetopia Bluetooth stack. Requires .NET Compact Framework v3.5 or above and Windows CE.NET 4.2 or above, or .NET Framework v3.5 for desktop Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8.
Link
http://32feet.codeplex.com/
Feature link for 32feet.Net
http://32feet.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Feature%20support%20table&referringTitle=Documentation
You may find this question very odd but these days we have all sorts of windows and mobile phone apps. Although googling it didn't help but I thought may be someone somewhere knows the answer.
Is it possible to access an IIS hosted website on a mobile phone. Mobile phone is connected to the windows machine via usb cable. If it is possible then what is the procedure please.
IIS Website is written in asp.net mvc 4 razor with c#.
Unfortunately the network does not have a wifi so connecting to the windows machine via wifi is out of the question.
I am administrator of my windows machine.
At the moment, it is also not possible to host the website on the server and make it available over the internet.
My phone is latest android.
In simple words, I have a website that is hosted on IIS and the phone is connected to the machine via usb and I want to browse the website from my phone.
Some ideas from the top of my head:
If your mobile phone has internet access and you can access your network router (or you can ask your admin to do this for you) than you could just simply forward a port to your PC and connect from internet to your router with appropriate port. Please look into your router manual for more details
You can also buy cheap usb wifi key that you can use with your PC as set up direct connection with your phone
Depending on your mobile phone OS you can actually share internet connection (so probably at the same time give your phone access to your local PC) by using 3rd party software and some hacks - this is one for Android but requires rooted OS http://www.howtogeek.com/117118/how-to-connect-your-android-to-your-pcs-internet-connection-over-usb/
Good luck! :-)
I want my windows phone app to communicate with a desktop app (in Windows), basically i want to send a picture which is captured in the phone to be send to the desktop app and get back the feedback from the desktop app.
Whats the most elegant and modular and simple way of doing this?
If you can force your user to connect via wifi such that he is on the same local network as the desktop, you listen for the phone's connection on a higher port and transfer the data to/from it over TCP directly.
Otherwise, the best way to do this at present would be via the internet, using your server to synchronize files and messages between the two devices.
Is there any way to cut down a specific functions of ActiveSync service on Windows CE device?
I want to see only one specific folder on my device when it's connected to PC.
Basically I want to leave only functionality of exchanging data via a specific folder, without any other communication (deploying applications, synchronization etc.).
I'm using a device with Windows CE 5.0.
ActiveSync really only has 2 "modes" - either with the ability to sync PIM info, or just the ability to connect as Guest. In both modes a user can browse the device from the PC.
What it sounds like you want to do is not include ActiveSync at all, but instead make your device a USB function device that acts as Mass Storage. If you do that you can then set a specific folder to be the mounted store and they would have access to only that folder.
Of course in that scenario you can't use any of the PIM data sync features.