According to High Point, the BTAccess software development kits (SDKs) provide collections of .NET and C++/MFC-based Bluetooth classes for developers of PocketPC software. The tools included in the SDKs provide a simple class model for accessing the
Widcomm Bluetooth Protocol Stack built into many PDAs including the
HP iPAQ,
Dell Axim, and
Toshiba, and shipped with several brands of Bluetooth CF cards including those from Belkin, Philips, Anycom, and Dell. There are three versions of the SDK, that loosely correspond to the version of the Widcomm Bluetooth stack being used on the device, High Point says.
Additionally, the company says it has added a .NET extension -- in the form of a C-style "flat" API -- that makes it easier to access the class libraries via P/Invoke from .NET languages, while still allowing C++/MFC developers to use the C++ classes as usual. One side effect of this approach is that now C-developers who don't want the overhead of MFC or .NET Compact Framework can call these C-style functions directly from their code, according to High Point.
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