(Click here for larger image of WiFi discovery screenshot)The articles are described as follows:
- Building a Wi-Fi Discovery Application with the .NET Compact Framework 2.0, by Chris Tacke -- shows how to use the .NET Compact Framework 2.0 together with OpenNETCF's shared source library to create an application that detects available wireless networks and retrieves configuration information from a smart device's wireless network adapter. Tacke's example uses OpenNETCF's Smart Device Framework to build the application with about 200 lines of hand-typed code.
According to Tacke, the Smart Device Framework provides many of the classes, properties, and methods that are available in the full .NET Framework, plus a large complement of classes that are specific to the Windows CE environment. This allows developers to create more feature-rich applications in less time.
- Hosting ActiveX Controls in the .NET Compact Framework 2.0, by Alex Feinman -- describes the process of creating a managed host for ActiveX controls using .NET CF 2.0 together with a managed control-hosting framework from OpenNETCF. Feinman points out that while .NET CF 2.0 is a significant step forward from version 1.0, it is still missing some useful features such as the ability to host controls.
Feinman goes into extensive detail on a number of classes and methods related to control hosting and provides numerous links to supporting documentation.
Both papers provide downloadable code samples.
The authors of both articles are members of the OpenNETCF project, described as an independent source of .NET CF development information working "in the spirit of the open-source movement."
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