Pull/Import files from PC Host to the Device

Is there a way using the Compact Framework to implement a "pull" or import
of files from a Host PC's hard drive while cradled? We would like to avoid
having to release a PC application used to "push" the files from the PC to
the mobile device which we know can be done.

Thanks in advance.
-Eric

Nothing that doesn't require you to do substantial work on both ends, no.
You could share a folder on the PC and have your code on the device attach
to the shared folder and get its contents, I guess, or have an FTP or HTTP
server running on the PC (or a sockets program of your own), to which you'd
connect from the device. Sending files from the PC to the device is the
intended mode of operation...

Paul T.

"E Lee" <elee@pinson3.com> wrote in message
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> Is there a way using the Compact Framework to implement a "pull" or import
> of files from a Host PC's hard drive while cradled? We would like to
> avoid having to release a PC application used to "push" the files from the
> PC to the mobile device which we know can be done.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> -Eric
>

The easiest method is to write a web service thats hosted on the server -
maybe WCF.
--
Simon Hart
Visual Developer - Device Application Development MVP
http://simonrhart.blogspot.com


"E Lee" wrote:

> Is there a way using the Compact Framework to implement a "pull" or import
> of files from a Host PC's hard drive while cradled? We would like to avoid
> having to release a PC application used to "push" the files from the PC to
> the mobile device which we know can be done.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> -Eric
>
>
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