Can I send a fax from my pocket pc using .net compact framework only?

[Rodrigo Garcia Lima]

How?

Thx.

 

[Ilya Tumanov [MS]]

Yes and no.



No, there's no Microsoft.Fax.Send (myDocument, "415-555-1111").



Yes, you can open COM port your fax modem is on (via P/Invoke) and send
appropriate commands and data to it.

It's not really hard, but would take some time to implement.



Best regards,



Ilya



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[Alex Feinman [MVP]]

Yes and no.



No, there's no Microsoft.Fax.Send (myDocument, "415-555-1111").



Yes, you can open COM port your fax modem is on (via P/Invoke) and send
appropriate commands and data to it.

It's not really hard, but would take some time to implement.

I beg to differ. Even sending Class 2 fax (and not a whole lot of fax modems
these days support class 2 or 2.0) is rather painful. Even more unpleasant
part is generating multipage tiff file according to T.30 spec. There are
commercial apps like TrueFax for PPC that I'd rather suggest than writing
one from the scratch

 

[Rodrigo Garcia Lima]

I beg to differ. Even sending Class 2 fax (and not a whole lot of fax
modems these days support class 2 or 2.0) is rather painful. Even more
unpleasant part is generating multipage tiff file according to T.30
spec. There are commercial apps like TrueFax for PPC that I'd rather
suggest than writing one from the scratch

Thx everyboby.

 

[Richard L Rosenheim]

If the ability to send a fax from a PocketPC is important, you might wish to
look at the faxing service from Venali.

With the service, you send them the fax as an email, and they take care of
actually transmitting the document as a fax. In the opposite direction, any
incoming faxes are converted to a PDF and send to you as an email.

Richard Rosenheim