Windows CE Programming

Although you may find this combination useless, here is something that will transmit data from a Windows Mobile device to a PC and the PC will type (like a barcode scanner keyboard wedge) the transmitted data.

The workflow theory is:

1. You scan a barcode or RFID TAG and the data is wedged into the SocketSend input textbox or you type some text into the textbox.
2. You connect your mobile device to the network, where you have a Windows PC running SocketWedge.
3. On the mobile within SocketSend you tap the transmit button and the data is send to SocketWedge.
4. SocketWedge receives the data and puts it in the keyboard message queue of a defined application.
5. The data is typed into the target application.

There are some code snippets you may find usefull for your apps:

On the Mobile (SocketSend)

• A background task that does ping a server and gives status back
• A ping coded for compact framework

On the PC (SocketWedge)

• Background threads that accept socket connections
• A nice keyboard input emulation using SendInput
• A hex encoder/decoder, yo you can use \xHH for hex input of special chars

Attached are the source codes for Visual Studio 2005 targeting Windows or Windows Mobile 6 SDK:

DOWNLOAD:SocketWedge VS2005 PC Source Code - (Hits: 485, size: 21.56 KB) DOWNLOAD:SocketSend VS2005 WM6 source code - (Hits: 487, size: 29.35 KB)

Executables:

DOWNLOAD:SocketSend2 Windows Mobile executable - (Hits: 88, size: 12.51 KB) DOWNLOAD:SocketWedge Windows PC executable - (Hits: 85, size: 9.77 KB)