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Scanning for bluetooth devices
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I am working on a project for college that involves bluetooth. I was required to use .Net. I have only programmed in C before, and therefore have started to teach myself C#. I have written all of the program already, including sending the data over a bluetooth connection. The only part I am having difficulty with is scanning for bluetooth devices in the area.
Can anyone give me any ideas on how to go about doing this or sample code.
Thanks a lot,
Tim
Can anyone give me any ideas on how to go about doing this or sample code.
Thanks a lot,
Tim
hi hi,
sorry, i can't offer any advice on your question, but t'm interested to know how your project has gone. can you share with me what tools or informational links you used for your project.
sorry, i can't offer any advice on your question, but t'm interested to know how your project has gone. can you share with me what tools or informational links you used for your project.
I haven't read through all the material, but it looks like it's specific for each blue tooth device. You'll need a BlueTooth SDK from the hardware vendor and then use PInvoke to access it's functions.
This newsgroup thread seems to be excellent.
http://dotnetjunkies.com/Newsgroups/.../30/99101.aspx
This newsgroup thread seems to be excellent.
http://dotnetjunkies.com/Newsgroups/.../30/99101.aspx
If you don't know it, learn it ;)
This is absolutely not true! I haven't done bluetooth in C# before, but I've done it in C/C++ and am familiar with the bluetooth protocol. You need to just do a device inquiry over sdp (Service Discovery Protocol). This is not vendor specific---A Huge Nightmare if it was vendor specific!!! Look in your API for SDP I'm sure you'll find something. If you decided instead to run Linux and bluez then I could help you 
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Originally Posted by C#Coder
it looks like it's specific for each blue tooth device. You'll need a BlueTooth SDK from the hardware vendor and then use PInvoke to access it's functions.
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Can you please share some of your code to how we able to read from the bluetooth device, and respond.
- Thanks.
- Thanks.
Hi, maybe late, but here is a good place where you can find example code about how to perform SDP, with microsoft's bluetooth APIs:
http://www.lenholgate.com
About data transfer between devices, I'm still working on it. I'm new to visual C++ and MFC, so I'm finding a little bit difficult to achieve the goal of creating a piconet. I think now I am close to it, and if any one knows anything about the topic of bluetooth piconets, don´t hesitate contacting me.
http://www.lenholgate.com
About data transfer between devices, I'm still working on it. I'm new to visual C++ and MFC, so I'm finding a little bit difficult to achieve the goal of creating a piconet. I think now I am close to it, and if any one knows anything about the topic of bluetooth piconets, don´t hesitate contacting me.
Hi Tim,
I am not sure but maybe u could use OBEX to discover the Bluetooth devices around the area and connect to it?
By the way, I am interested in your application, care to talk/post your code?
I am doing a C# application to communciate between desktop and PDA.
I have problems converting the VB .NET application found at http://www.devx.com/wireless/Article/11511/0 to C# application.
Please assist
Thanks.
Clement
I am not sure but maybe u could use OBEX to discover the Bluetooth devices around the area and connect to it?
By the way, I am interested in your application, care to talk/post your code?
I am doing a C# application to communciate between desktop and PDA.
I have problems converting the VB .NET application found at http://www.devx.com/wireless/Article/11511/0 to C# application.
Please assist
Thanks.
Clement
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Originally Posted by tadhg
I am working on a project for college that involves bluetooth. I was required to use .Net. I have only programmed in C before, and therefore have started to teach myself C#. I have written all of the program already, including sending the data over a bluetooth connection. The only part I am having difficulty with is scanning for bluetooth devices in the area.
Can anyone give me any ideas on how to go about doing this or sample code.
Thanks a lot,
Tim
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