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re: Old Man Spaith is out of ideas

Miguel Santos — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:57:48 GMT

Hi John,

Please check our WM app in http://www.wizi.com . It using your wonderfull api! :) Also can find position using CellTowers.

See you soon,

Miguel

re: Old Man Spaith is out of ideas

Chess — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:37:03 GMT

How about something about using Sockets? Also I'd love to use Ruby on WinCE, will the DLR come to the WinCE platform?

re: Old Man Spaith is out of ideas

cenet — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:07:53 GMT

Hey Chess --Not sure specifically what you'd want to know around sockets? We're mostly the same as desktop Windows, so articles/samples there (in general, not always!) should be good starting points for CE. There are of course a lot more devs for desktop & hence more informatiot around it. For specific questions, http://blogs.msdn.com/cenet/archive/2005/12/05/500181.aspx newsgroup list is a lot of times a better start.

RE Ruby/DLR - the fact I had to look up what these meant shows that I'm a C hackers who doesn't really know something like this :). The .Net team has a blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/netcfteam/, also potentially the .Net newsgroup microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.compactframework.

John

re: Old Man Spaith is out of ideas

Barry — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:51:21 GMT

John,

I am looking for simple FTP client for WCE600 which can periodically upload files

to the server and be able to work with broken uploads. Is FTP server in WINCE600 catalog would work ?

Regards,

Barry

04/22/08

re: Old Man Spaith is out of ideas

cenet — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:12:13 GMT

The FTP server in the CE catalog only does server side stuff. There's no FTP client built into that, and no FTP client that ships out of the box with Platform Builder.

Your options here I think are

(1) see if there's a 3rd party written already for general embedded

(2) see if there's some free source floating around that you could take & recompile. Be careful with the licensing restriction of course :) - I'm not a lawyer so you're on your own there!!

(3) write your own FTP client. Assuming you just want a simple upload of a file and don't care about user interface, this is probably best and shouldn't be all that hard. Wininet (available on embedded) has a set of API's the abstract out all the details so you don't have to do raw socket connection, sending raw strings back & forth, etc. Check out FtpPutFile() as one of the API's you'd need to make this work.

John

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Barry — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:13:00 GMT

John,

Thanks a lot.

I will go for option (3). It will save me the money

on lawyers :-) and will give me control.

I need just a thread checking disk space and in the case

of going below threshold on free disk space uploading files to the remote server.

Is there a way to switch networks during FTP session if network became unavailable or I need simply discoonet close the handle and restablish a new session via available network LAN/WLAN or cellular.

It seems that WinInet abstacts this from the user.

Regards,

Barry

04/27/08

re: Old Man Spaith is out of ideas

cenet — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:10:00 GMT

> Is there a way to switch networks during FTP session if network became unavailable or I need simply discoonet close the handle and restablish a new session via available network LAN/WLAN or cellular.

> It seems that WinInet abstacts this from the user.

I don't know the nitty gritty on this one. I'll have to punt you off to a newsgroup (http://blogs.msdn.com/cenet/archive/2005/12/05/500181.aspx ), more people follow that than the "Old main spaith is out of ideas" thread so you'll get better help there :).

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DanL — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:22:50 GMT

John - How about adding Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) to the CE server (similar to desktop -- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa362708.aspx)

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cenet — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:42:30 GMT

Hey Dan -- we've looked into implementing this in the past, but there has never been enough demand. To the best of my knowledge you're maybe the 3rd person that has brought this up, at least to me personally. Sorry I can't help out here, but it's not something we're really tracking at this point.

John

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William Roe — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:05:10 GMT

John,

We are trying to find a clean way to enable and disable the Wireless Zero Config programmatically. Everytime we think we have it, we find a way that does not work. Perhaps, this might be a good topic for your blog.

William H. Roe Jr., M.S., CISSP

email: william.roe@hp.com

re: Old Man Spaith is out of ideas

cenet — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:04:23 GMT

Good idea, William -- I've forwarded it onto the wifi team for consideration. John