When a device provider should raise the DeviceConnectionDownEvent is a topic of some confusion. The Contoso device provider sample gave a wrong example of its use till recently. The sample has the following code inside the PhysicalDeviceProxy.Close method...

You might have observed that every time you start a process from RFID Manager, both the methods Deploy and Init of every event handler (EH) in the process are called. This raises the question: why have these two separate methods at all? The answer...