They both, in the next version, at least, expose a signal strength. In the
case of the one from the adapter, that indicates the strength of the actual
associated connection to a particular access point. In the case of the
access point class, the strength indicates how strong the signal from that
access point is, whether the card is currently associated with the access
point or not. So, which one you use depends on what you care about.
Paul T.
"Chris Tacke, eMVP" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> SignalStrength is part of the OpenNETCF.Net namespace, so I can only
assume
> that either the Adapter or AccessPoint class exposes it.
>
>
http://www.opennetcf.org/SourceBrows.../OpenNETCF.Net
>
> Looking in the online help I see an Adapter.StrengthFetcher:
> http://www.opennetcf.org/library/Ope...terFields.html
>
> That seems like a good start.
>
>
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>
> "Gianco" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hello people
> >
> > I found the following C++ source code posted by Paul Tobey to obtain
> > the strength of a network wireless signal:
> >
> > extern "C" __declspec(dllexport) INT GetSignalStrength(TCHAR
> > *ptcDeviceName, INT *piSignalStrength)
> > {
> > PNDISUIO_QUERY_OID queryOID;
> > DWORD dwBytesReturned = 0;
> > UCHAR QueryBuffer[sizeof(NDISUIO_QUERY_OID)+sizeof(DWORD)];
> > HANDLE ndisAccess = INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE;
> > BOOL retval;
> > INT hr;
> >
> > // Attach to NDISUIO.
> > ndisAccess = CreateFile(NDISUIO_DEVICE_NAME, 0, 0, NULL,
> > OPEN_EXISTING, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL | FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED,
> > INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE );
> >
> > if (ndisAccess == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) return -1;
> >
> > // Get Signal strength
> > queryOID = (PNDISUIO_QUERY_OID)&QueryBuffer[0];
> > queryOID->ptcDeviceName = ptcDeviceName;
> > queryOID->Oid = OID_802_11_RSSI;
> >
> > retval = DeviceIoControl(ndisAccess,
> > IOCTL_NDISUIO_QUERY_OID_VALUE, (LPVOID)queryOID,
> > sizeof(NDISUIO_QUERY_OID) + sizeof(DWORD), (LPVOID)queryOID,
> > sizeof(NDISUIO_QUERY_OID) + sizeof(DWORD), &dwBytesReturned, NULL);
> >
> > if (retval && piSignalStrength)
> > {
> > hr = 0;
> > *piSignalStrength = *(DWORD *)&queryOID->Data;
> > }
> > else
> > {
> > hr = -2;
> > }
> >
> > CloseHandle(ndisAccess);
> >
> > return(hr);
> > }
> >
> > So I created a DLL with eVC 4 changing a little bit the function so it
> > returns an integer value that indicate the success or the error code
> > (-1 if the CreateFile call fails, -2 if the DeviceIoControl call
> > fails)
> >
> > I use it in C# declared in this way:
> > [DllImport("mydll.dll")]
> > private static extern int GetSignalStrength(string sDeviceName, ref
> > Int32 iStrength)
> >
> > It returns -2, I would understand why...
> >
> > Could it be that I declared it in a wrong way? The sDeviceName must be
> > not declared as "string" because in the DLL is a TCHAR pointer?
> >
> > The device name is wrong? I pass to the function the name "PRISMNDS1"
> > that I find in the menu \START\SETTINGS\NETWORK AND DIAL-UP
> > CONNECTIONS, is it correct?
> >
> > The OS is Windows CE .NET 4.1 V1.20 - is the GetSignalStrength
> > compatible with it? If not, have I the chance to modify the function
> > to make it compatible with my OS?
> >
> > Thanks in advance to all
> > Gianco
>
>
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