Problem getting data from from CE device

[dave m]

Is there a why to pull data on a CE device from the desktop PC? I can push
data from the CE device to the PC using RDA, but that action is initiated
from the hand held device. I need the desktop PC to initiate the data
transfer. (I'm using SQL Server CE).

Thank for any assistance,

Dave M.

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

It sounds like you're asking, "Is there a way to force the CE device to
update SQL server with data from it's own local SQL CE database which is not
using replication?" If that's what you're asking, the answer is no. You
can build one, if you want. You might do that with a listening socket on
the CE device to which the server machine connects and sends a message or
something. It would be a proprietary solution...

Paul T.

 

[dave m]

Paul,

Thanks for the reply! Yes, thats exaclty what I want to do. I'm not real
familiar with building a listening socket. Can it be developed in vb.net?
Is so, any idea where I might find some information regarding this?

Thanks again,

Dave M

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

The classes for VB.NET are exactly the same as for C#. You might try
TcpListener in the help index. There's also "Socket" to look at...

Paul T.