Docking Mobile Devices (Smart Phones)

[Guest]

Hi all,

I have a question about docking and USB connections with PDA's and more
specifically SmartPhones. I'm trying to build a mobile application using
..NETCF2.0. This application will store data (pictures) on the device. I want
to be able to move this data off the device up to a server on the web. I do
not want to use a mobile network provider to access the internet via
GPRS/EDGE with the device due to the costs.

I looked at a WIFI solution in order to connect to a LAN to access the
internet but not all devices support WIFI. Is it possible to access a LAN
via a docking or USB connection?

I want to talk to a hosted .NET Service on a server on a LAN using TCP/IP
that pumps the data from the device to the service and then up to a web
server on the internet. Is this possible? Is this only possible (or easier)
programming with the ActiveSync API? Do most PDA's/SmartPhones support
docking/USB connections and is there a big difference programming around a
docking station over a USB cable connection?

Any advise on this would be greatly apreciated.

Thanks

 

[Simon Hart]

Yes this is possible. You can use the ActiveSync connection so long as the
host machine has an internet connection if you want to connect to a web
server running on the internet.

You can use ppp_peer as an IP address to reference your development
machine's web service.

Regards
Simon.