Pocket PC Networking, basic newbie question

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Pocket PC Networking >> basic newbie question

by bmV3ZXN0IG5ld2JpZQ » Sat, 30 Apr 2005 01:40:03 GMT

I'm very unknowledgeable about Windows network programming. I have a basic
understanding of networking principals in general and I've done a couple of
ppc applications, but I'm not sure where to start relative to doing a project
using something like WiFi.

- I think I need to look into Winsock programming, is that correct?

- Can anyone tell me where I should start if I want to get two ppc devices
to communicate(just send an acknowledgement at least) using WiFi?

- Does the ConnectionManager API for pocket pc handle making the network
connection for WiFi?

Thanks for any help.

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Pocket PC Networking >> basic newbie question

by Omar [MS] » Sat, 30 Apr 2005 10:57:54 GMT


Configuring your wifi connection aside. From a programming perspective yes,
you do indeed want to use winsock for communicating between two devices. You
can set one up as the server side waiting on accept for connections and the
other as the client calling connect to connect to the server.


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Pocket PC Networking >> basic newbie question

by bmV3ZXN0IG5ld2JpZQ » Tue, 03 May 2005 02:19:04 GMT


Ok thanks a lot for the information. So, I've found a few "chat" projects
that are open source. That should be very helpful for the communications
that will take place. However, I'm having difficulty grasping how to setup
an intitial peer-peer (pocket pc - pocket pc) wifi connection. Can anyone
point me in a helpful direction on this? Its not simply setting up a server
on one pocket pc and the other pocket pc specifying the server's ip address
and port number is it?

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