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Bluetooth anyone?

Does anyone have or know of where I can obtain exaples of bluetooth communication set up in vb.net? I am attempting to set up communications between a bluetooth mobile printer and a handheld device, so if the example where compatable with the compact framework I would be that much more excited. I have been looking for a while now and have hit a few dead ends (dead links) and am begining to get frustrated. I am suprised at the lack of information on the topic considering how great the technology is and how many hardware solutions are out there.
[549 byte] By [CJKeatley] at [2007-12-23]
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Moved to Smart Devices General forum.
nobugz at 2007-8-30 > top of Msdn Tech,Smart Device Development,Smart Devices General...
# 2
If I remember correctly, you can't use the MS Stack? I could be totally wrong. do a search on the forums, there are a few topics about this
ahmedilyas at 2007-8-30 > top of Msdn Tech,Smart Device Development,Smart Devices General...
# 3

There are a comercial managed wrappers for Bluetooth available which do support Windows Mobile:
http://www.franson.com/bluetools/
http://www.high-point.com/

They both work support Microsoft and Widcomm. This is probably the the easiest way to get your problem solved.

MichaelKoster at 2007-8-30 > top of Msdn Tech,Smart Device Development,Smart Devices General...
# 4
If you are sure, that your device have Microsoft Bluetooth stack you can find some free libraries (start from OPENNETCF). But if the targets are many different models PDAs you can use only these commersial wrappers.
TihomirIgnatov at 2007-8-30 > top of Msdn Tech,Smart Device Development,Smart Devices General...
# 5

See the following link for MS Bluetooth stack

http://www.opennetcf.org/download.asp?product=OpenNETCF.Bluetooth.Widcomm

If you are developing for a custom device then most of the OEMs provide the required s/w. We have to use wrappers to the OEM's s/w.

Krishna

Krishna.K at 2007-8-30 > top of Msdn Tech,Smart Device Development,Smart Devices General...
# 6

I have a Toshiba (Qosmio 25) which has its own BT stack. Unfortunately, it doesn't work with my Blackberry 8700. So I uninstalled the Tosh stack, then added just the Tosh piece necessary to start/stop the BT device (internal). According to the Tosh support site, this should have allowed the native Microsoft BT stack to start.

I suspect that Tosh have removed the MS BT drivers from their particular brand of XP sp2 and replaced them with the Tosh version. In any case, the MS stack is not installing. When the device manager detects the BT hardware without drivers, it only finds the old Tosh drivers.

Any ideas where the MS stack drivers should be on my PC? Or is there anywhere to get hold of these drivers without doing a full sp2 re-install (anything but that)?

Many thanks for any help.

K

kevfirst at 2007-8-30 > top of Msdn Tech,Smart Device Development,Smart Devices General...
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