Infrared with C#

[David]

Hi,

I want to send a file using infra-red to another device using my C#
application. I've got a built-in infrared port on my laptop and wondered
how I would go about programming such an application. Is this possible or
would I need to obtain a stack implementation from somewhere?

Thanks in advance.

David.

 

[DC]

Hi,

I want to send a file using infra-red to another device using my C#
application. I've got a built-in infrared port on my laptop and wondered
how I would go about programming such an application. Is this possible or
would I need to obtain a stack implementation from somewhere?

AFAIK, IrDA port is just another COMx: port.
You should have no trouble Googling for serial port examples.

LP,
Dejan

 

[William Ryan eMVP]

David:

Hi,

I want to send a file using infra-red to another device using my C#
application. I've got a built-in infrared port on my laptop and wondered
how I would go about programming such an application. Is this possible or
would I need to obtain a stack implementation from somewhere?

Thanks in advance.

David.

check out the IRDAListener class
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...lrfsystemnetsocketsirdalistenerclasstopic.asp
and IrDAClient classes
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...lrfsystemnetsocketsirdalistenerclasstopic.asp

I'm not sure from the context of your post if you need both source and
destination machines to recieve and transmit (I guess they wouldn't be
source or destination then, they'd be both but I basically mean two way
communicators), so you can set up both.

HTH,

Bill

 

[David]

Many thanks.

David.

David:


check out the IRDAListener class
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...lrfsystemnetsocketsirdalistenerclasstopic.asp
and IrDAClient classes
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...lrfsystemnetsocketsirdalistenerclasstopic.asp

I'm not sure from the context of your post if you need both source and
destination machines to recieve and transmit (I guess they wouldn't be
source or destination then, they'd be both but I basically mean two way
communicators), so you can set up both.

HTH,

Bill

 

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi David,

Take a look at this article in MSDN it implement a chat program using IrDA

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnhcvs04/html/vs04b6.asp

Cheers,