There does seem to be a lot of niche interest in bluetooth, but MicroSoft are letting developers down by not providing a bluetooth API for Windows and Windows Mobile. How beautiful it would be to create a solution with a couple of Win Forms and Mobile Forms app projects and use the same API in both to communicate over bluetooth, serial even IR. But no. There are even videos available on Channel9 where MS devs talk about the amazing work they've done using the MicroSoft C# bluetooth API but simply don't make any of the useful information available. What's going on MS? Is it because you know BT is destined for the bin? And no, I don't consider the above link to Channel9 a productive one. Is that really the best MS can for us? Anil Dhawan's link is broken!
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Saturday, July 07, 2007
iTunes Remote Control
Well, after a lot of help from the http://www.32feet.net/ forums, not forgetting Mr. Peter Foot himself, and late night messing, I've finally got a working version of my iTunes remote control (kinda) finished.
Ok, for those interested enough, there's a log window, which shouldn't dump out too much; volume controls work, but there's a bug in that once a volume or position value gets changed, messages start getting thrown back and forth- Once I've re-worked the request and response formats I'll be fixing the synchronisation issues. The format issue will also allow the playlist window to function by feeding from partial list messages.
There is also an iPod look-a-like dialog, which will in time provide full control. This will be waiting until after the other functions/bugs have been sorted out.
You can download the current version here: http://home.freeuk.com/eudoxus/BtChat.2007-07-07.001.rar
Again, thanks to everyone on the 32feet.net forums who helped!
Matt.
Ok, for those interested enough, there's a log window, which shouldn't dump out too much; volume controls work, but there's a bug in that once a volume or position value gets changed, messages start getting thrown back and forth- Once I've re-worked the request and response formats I'll be fixing the synchronisation issues. The format issue will also allow the playlist window to function by feeding from partial list messages.
There is also an iPod look-a-like dialog, which will in time provide full control. This will be waiting until after the other functions/bugs have been sorted out.
You can download the current version here: http://home.freeuk.com/eudoxus/BtChat.2007-07-07.001.rar
Again, thanks to everyone on the 32feet.net forums who helped!
Matt.
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